PBL PHOTOS CLASS VIII A

Peer talk in class

Peer Talk Session
Topic: Importance of proper balanced diet and personal hygiene for adolescents

PBL LESSON 7 CLASS VIII A

Project Plan – Lesson 7

The Manage Phase

(7.1) Process Management:

                List tasks that will be used to manage the process of conducting the learning

Discussion between team members, peer talk, teacher talk, expert talk, collecting information about stars, solar system and artificial satellites.

(7.2) Student Preparation:

                Describe how students will be prepared for the project prior to launch. List any specific instruction or tasks that will be needed

By asking relevant questions like Are you aware about the constituents of our universe? Why don’t we use moon for telecommunication? How stars are originated? What forms black holes?

(7.3)  Facilitation:

                Describe how facilitation of resources will be used to enable the students to be successful.

The progress of students will be continuously monitored and required changes are made. Proper idea is given by the teacher what to research during the course of project. Students are made free to ask any relevant doubts regarding the project.

(7.4) Progress Monitoring:

                Describe how program will be monitored throughout the project.

By group presentations and discussion between team leaders and teacher.

Group Progress

By questioning the students from time to time and final presentation.

         Individual Progress

(7.5) Re-planning:

                Describe how ‘re-planning’ will be used if the project goes off track

Group leaders will be called and discuss the need and relevance of re-planning if required. This ensures that the project goes in the right track and will be completed at the right time.

(7.6) Conflict Management:

                Describe how to address problems related to participation, offer approaches to manage other conflicts that may arise.

All students are motivated to participate effectively in the ongoing project. They have the freedom to perform tasks as per their ability in the group.

PBL LESSON 6 CLASS VIII A

Project Plan - Lesson 6

The Review Phase

(6.1)Student Reflection and Evaluation:

                Describe how student reflection and evaluation will be conducted.

Each team is given time for presentation and will be graded accordingly.

(6.2) Teacher Reflection and Evaluation:

                Describe how teacher reflection and evaluation will be conducted.

Value points are given teacher from time to time and once the project is finalized, report is submitted to the Principal for evaluation.

(6.3) Assessment of 21^st Century skills:

                List of 21^st century skills in this project and its assessment

Collaboration, communication, cognitive thinking

(6.4) Summative Assessment and Grading:

                List products and the corresponding rubrics that will be used for SA and Grading

Product	Rubric	Grading
Student presentation Report PPT	Quality and clarity of expression Accuracy and presentation Originality	Will be graded in 10 point scale

PBL LESSON 5 CLASS VIII

Project Plan – Lesson 5

The Do Phase

(5.1) Project Launch:

                Describe how the project will be launched, including how goals, expectation, rules, procedures, assessment, and grading will be presented to the students.

The project was launched by general discussion about our universe in the class by teacher. The goal of the project is to make students sensitized to the problems of society and to make them active participants to find solutions. Students are expected to work in group under leader for the tasks given. The project proceeds as per the procedure given below. Formation of groups. Collecting information about constellation, solar system and artificial satellites.  Research in internet and school library. Making PPT Making still models and working models. Teacher talk on ‘Mangalyan’ and its scope. Finding methods to control misconceptions about our universe. Presenting with PPT Submission of report.

(5.2) Artifacts:

                List artifacts that will be created during the project

Chart/Posters/Models Report PPT

(5.3) Culminating product:

                Describe what culminating product or products are expected to be created during the project and how they will be presented.

Charts and PPTs will be used for conduction of seminars. Report will be submitted on the completion of project.

(5.4) Celebrating completion:

                Describe how the students will celebrate when the project is completed.

Giving certificates.

 

PBL WORK PLAN CLASS VIII A

 WORK PLAN      

Sl. No	TASK	SUBTASK	ROLE	START DATE	END DATE	PRODUCT
01	Launch project	Selection of topic : our universe	Teacher	01.11.16	01.11.16	Project launched
02	Deliver classroom instruction	Areas to be covered. 1.Define the project 2.Culminating products	Teacher	02.11.16	02.11.16	Initial classroom instruction is completed
03	Group selection	Leaders are selected and groups are formed.	Teacher	03.11.16	03.11.16	Group selection is completed
04	Conduct research	Collection of Content on 1.Stars and solar system 2.Constellations 3. Artificial satellites	Student	04.11.16	15.11.16	Students submitted report.
05	Collected information about relevant topics	A member from each team is assigned responsibility.	Student	05.11.16	10.11.16	Students submitted report.
06	Programme sheet activity	Prepared based on curricular units and problem areas  in daily life regarding misconceptions about universe.	Student and teacher	11.11.16	16.11.16	Report submitted.
07	Advice meeting	Team prepare briefs	All team members	17.11.16	17.11.16	Team leaders presented briefs.
08	Programme sheet presentation	Presentation	,,	18.11.16	18.11.16	Presentation.
09	Preperation of questionnaire	Eliciting from peer group and self analisation	Each member	20.11.16	20.11.16	Questionnaire prepared
10	Expert talk	Mrs. P. Suchitra TGT BIO	Teacher	21.11.16	21.11.16	Mrs. P. Suchitra talked about Mangalyan and students cleared doubts.
11	Exhibition	Practice presentation by students	All members	22.11.16	22.11.16	Practice exhibition conducted.
12	Project presentation	Posting in the computer/blog	Team leaders typed in department system and teacher posted in blog.	23.11.16	23.11.16	Posted in blog
10	Assessment and grading	Prepare rubrics and assessment	Teacher	26.11.16	26.11.16	Prepared rubrics
11	Refection and evaluation	Student reflection and evaluation, Teacher refection and evaluation	Students and teacher	27.11.16	27.11.16	Evaluation completed
12	Project closed	Submitting to the Principal	Teacher	30.11.16	30.11.16	Submitted to Principal

PBL LESSON 3 CLASS VIII A

Project Based Learning

Sample – Lesson 3

Plan Phase

3.1 Work Breakdown, Products and Milestones:

            List the project task and, if possible at this stage include the sub-tasks. For each task add the product that will be created and indicate it will be a milestone.

Note: Products are shown in ( )’s. Milestones are in bold font. Classroom instruction: 1. The concept of Universe  is explained. 2. Grouping of students. (student groups) Research: online and library (research report) Class activity: Work sheet about stars and solar system (test report) Survey: causes and effects on scarlet moon on 15 november 2016 (survey report) Activity: conducting quiz about universe (performance sheets) Activity: collection of newspaper cuttings on stars and solar system (poster) Activity: creating awareness about misconceptions about eclipse.(notice) Activity: Expert talk on mangalyan (expert talk) Presentation: Group wise presentation using PPT (Report , PPT) Celebration: a “mini exhibition” of  posters and reports in class.(exhibition)

3.2 Role definition:

            List the roles team members will fulfill in the project.

Project leader: teacher will fulfill this role Researcher : team leaders Survey writer : group leaders Surveyors : all members in a group Team  expert: will present the team’s advice to the class for effective model preparation Presentation author : group leader Presenter (all students will take some part in the presentation)

3.3 Task schedule:

            Note start and end dates for the project.

                Include expected dates to start specific tasks

Project start date 1st November 2016 Project end date 30th November 2016

3.4Special Activities Plan:

                List any special activities (e.g. Field trips or guest speakers) including dates.

Expert talk on concerns of expeditions to other planets :    19 November 2016 Mini exhibition : 25 november 2016

           

3.5Resource Plan:

List resource that will be required during the project and any other date constraints associated with them.

Computer lab: Date and period in the Time Table.

3.6 Direct Instruction:

List any planned direct instruction sessions and link them to specific tasks if appropriate.

Basics of our universe – different components natural and man made. How to explain reasons for the occurrence of phases of moon? How to conduct survey on the need to eradicate misconceptions about our universe?

3.7 Reviews and checkpoints:

                Describe how you will incorporate review meetings and checkpoints in the project

At the end of every week there will be a 20 minutes class conference to discuss progress, successes and challenges. A checkpoint meeting for each team will be held for 10 minutes twice per week.

3.8 Assessment plan:

            Describe the balanced assessment plan for the project. List products that will be assessed during the project. List rubrics that need to be created before project launch.

Opportunities for authentic assessment will include: the surveys and results, making models, presenting the findings in the form of PPT. Formative assessment will primarily focus on the artifacts created by the students during the project. Special attention will be paid to survey prototypes, learning journals and presentation outlines. Summative assessments will be performed on the survey results, presentations on the stars and solar sysem  and the portfolios of work. Rubrics prepared: Survey questions and results rubric, report submission rubric, PPT presentation rubric, grading rubric.