Posts Tagged ‘project-based learning’

Playing For Change: Peace Through Music

8, Aug 2009

StandByMe Sometimes, hard work and a brilliant idea can weave together to make a thing of beauty. Read about a wonderful project that unites public musicians from around the world.

ActivLearning in the DreamExtreme Classroom

28, Jun 2009

The 2008/2009 school year in the DreamExtreme 5th grade classroom was truly amazing. We accomplished so much more than I thought possible, trying new things and reshaping expectations on a nearly daily basis. The students’ use of technology was not only visible, it was purposeful. That’s a real testimony to the engagement of this class, [...]

Hey! It’s Us, DreamExtreme!

6, Jun 2009

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The end of the school year – as much as we tried to avoid it – finally reared it’s calendary head and POOF! Summer vacation started. We spent part of the last two days of school recording the music and shooting the video [...]

Looking Farther, Reaching Higher

3, Jun 2009

As we close up this school year, I am looking back at many of the amazing things this group of students has accomplished. I’m also looking forward to where they might go next. A powerful way to gain inspiration and direction is to look at and consider the example of others. That’s part of a [...]

Field Tripping, ‘bama Skyping, & Math Inquiring

13, Apr 2009

Looking back at last week, I am really proud of this class. After three quarters together (add a year on top of that for half of the class!), they continue to impress me with their maturity, flexibility, creativity, and skill. The two major focuses of last week were our Skype call to Gadsden, Alabama as [...]

Math As Inquiry and Connecting the 50 States

7, Apr 2009

We continued, today, working on the inquiry-based math projects. It was very exciting to step back and look at a classroom of students who were nearly all engaged in completely different activities and phases of their projects. Hands and brains and paper and computers all mixed up in a wonderful combination of learning and creativity. [...]

Inquiring Minds Want To Know…

6, Apr 2009

Today was an exciting day in Room 10. Students have been working for the past few classes on inquiry-based math projects. As part of our study of statistics and probability, students worked in teams to create a question, hypothesis, procedure for experimenting, and a method of recording and reporting data. It has been very busy, [...]


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