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010 Putting the Finishing Touches

Many of the details of the PBL is fleshed out. The big picture is focused with selected standards and the Driving Question. The calandar is mapped, and may need some tinkering once students start the PBL. What's left to do? In this module, let's review two important items addressed previously. Both serve important, but different, purposes. The "Grabber" or "Entry Document" sets the tone for students to engage into the PBL experience and focuses their learning paths. Mini-lessons and workshops are the means by which instruction is delivered, assessed, and, where needed, retaught in different means based on students' learning needs.

 

While you may already have put together lessons, or have a good idea what will take place, it's important to take one more look, a final tune up. We want the PBL experience to start with engines reving, and purring through out the students' learning journey.

 

Action Steps

  1. Develop and/or Refine the Entry Document
  2. Distinguishing and Using Mini-lessons and Workshops
  3. Module Reflection

 

Develop and/or Refine the Entry Document

The entry document sets the scenario in which students are presented the unit/mini-unit. It outlines the problem or issue that students will resolve, sets up expectations, tasks, and their roles for completing the standards-focused learning. Here's one Sample Entry Document

 

At Ohio Pathways, they have posted projects, each of which has an entry document. Browse some of the PBL units and read their entry documents.

 

Grabber

Sometimes a talk, or an entry activity (anticipatory set), grabbers engages students into the opening of a lesson. In this case, it serves the dual purpose of starting the lesson and the PBL unit/mini-unit. An Entry Document is critical to the main show. The Grabber can be the warm-up act. 

 

Building Mini-lessons and Workshops

 

 

Module Reflection

Answer one of the following questions in Reflection 010

 

  • Post your Driving Question and Entry Document, and than read and comment on 3 other's Entry Document. Address the following for each post:
    • What is engaging about the Entry Document?
    • How does the Entry Document connect to the PBL Driving Question?
    • What do you wonder about the PBL experience based on the Entry Document?

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