Edebé Educational Projects

EL APRENDIZAJE BASADO EN PROYECTOS

UNA NUEVA VISIÓN DEL ALUMNO, DE LA ESCUELA, DE LA EDUCACIÓN

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Basis of Project Based Learning SIGNIFICATIVE LEARNING

LEARN

BY DOING

CONTEXTUALIZACIÓN DEL APRENDIZAJE

MULTISKILLS LEARN BY DISCOVERY SOCIAL BUILDING OF KNOWLEDGE 2

Connected to reality and close to the students’ interests.

Encourages Learning by discovery

All projects are aligned to official syllabus

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All projects go beyond the classrooom.

They encourage Cooperative Learning.

They are flexible and adapted to each school’s reality.

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They propose significative experiences.

They benefit 21st century skills.

They incorporate routines and abilities which develop Multiple Intelligences.

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They help to build a comprehensive education of each person.

They incorporate values: of each person, with other people, and within society.

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Phases in EdebĂŠ Projects

challenge

investigation

create

present

Clearly organized stages so students follow the real method to solve and build up a full project.

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Assessment in Edebé’s Projects

Real Assessment focused on action or doing a relevant and complex task.

Competence focused Focal point are key competences. Further than its contents, it helps develop interpersonal skills: critical thinking, cooperation, communication and creative problem solving.

Continuous It attends to the whole process (participation, attitude, initiative, collaboration…) and to learning results.

Global Different fields are integrated: language, maths, social, artistic, personal… by using several tools: observation recording, questionnaires, portfolio…)

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Assessment in Edebé’s Projects Challenge

Investigate

Create

Present

Observation recording

Observation recording

Observation recording

Observation recording

Aspects related to initial motivation, interest, participation, implication, etc. will be taken into account.

Aspects related to research, organization and management of information, digital skills, etc. will be taken into account.

Give value to aspects such as creativity, team work, resolve, etc.

Guidance to assess how final product is presented.

Questionnaire Multiple choice test to evaluate consolidated learnings achieved during this phase of the project.

Questionnaire Multiple choice test to evaluate consolidated learnings achieved during this phase of the project.

Assessment guideline for final product

Assessment guideline for portfolio Guidance to assess content, formal aspects, reflection, etc, selected by students to create their own portfolio.

Guidance to assess final product.

PROJECT RUBRIC Integrates evaluations from different tools.

Teacher’s estimation Self assessment (Learning Diary)

Co-Assessment (Team Diary)

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Social Science projects Primary beginners: A walk around the school

Primary: 6-7 years old

Students create a magazine to explain their school to their family.

Students create topic areas around the classroom.

Trip to the past!

Primary: 6-7 years old Let’s go for a walk!

Students create a book abouth their neighbourhood, streets, traffic rules, etc.

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Social Science projects Primary: 8-9 years old

Primary: 8-9 years old

Treasure Hunt

Trip to the past!

Students prepare a clue game to hunt for a treasure by using orientation references.

Students organize a stand and a Marketing campaign to promote traditional products.

Primary: 6-7 years old Ave Roma!

Students organize a Roman Empire campus with workshops to know how the ancient Romans lived.

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Social Science projects Primary: 10-12 years old

Primary: 10-12 years old

Round the cosmos

History reporters

Students create a map of the cosmos with QR codes which will contain virtual information.

Students produce a video film in the format of news programme which disseminates historical facts.

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Natural Science projects Primary: 6-7 years old

Primary: 6-7 years old

Plasters go into surgery

What junk is this?

Students build a model of the human body as a doctor would examine it.

Students build a mobile propelled by air, water or electric energy capable of covering a certain distance.

Primary: 6-7 years old Creative chefs Students prepare a salad starting with lettuce they have planted.

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Natural Science projects Primary: 8-9 years old

Primary: 8-9 years old

Where are snails when it’s sunny?

Fire Surveillance

Students build and keep a check on a terrarium for snails.

Students build a mechanism capable of holding a camera in a secure way to avoid any damage if it falls.

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Natural Science projects Primary: 10-12 years old

Primary: 10-12 years old

Primary: 10-12 years old

Life savers

Smarthome!

Five animals along the way

Students produce a short TV series about medical professional jobs.

Students present a refurbishment project and a budget to improve the sustainability of a home.

Students prepare a route along an ecosystem and study five animals which live there.

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Student’s material

Magazine with graphic and text information of contents related to the project.

Activity book which follows the order of the different stages of the project.

Mindmap which is gradually filled in as the project advances.

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Teacher’s material Teacher’s guide to the project: • Didactic guidance • Assessment tools: registers, questionnaires, evaluation guides and general rubric.

• Key to activities • Session plans • Team diary • Gamification proposals • Project contents map

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Teacher’s material

Methodological Guide: Basic information on the PBL methodology: • Multiple intelligences • Cooperative methodology • Critical thinking

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