Planning Reflection: 7 Essential Elements for PBL
Which elements are evident in my planning ? I began the unit with a video posing the challenging problem : the Far North being cut off from trade and asking the students to add their ideas about how we would survive and what would be impacted to a padlet task. This seemed to be an effective way to engage students as all seemed to be motivated to share their ideas. I also provided them with two Big Questions which I intended to delve deep into with them however the students ended up following a different path meaning it was directed more from the students than myself which is something I was not anticipating. I guess this proves that student voice was a major factor that influenced the success of the PBL unit. I then realised that I needed to focus more on teaching students inquiry type skills and stages to make sure their group inquiries would be sustainable . I provided a few tuning in activities to challenge their thinking such as the seed vault image to spark thei...