Project Based Learning

               My Healthy Self Project was my favorite project based learning website. It appealed to me because it was based off of the interests of the class. The teacher did a good job of planning it around when it can be most related to the students' lives as well as building off of the questions given by the students. It was so relevant, in fact, that the children applied what they learned directly to their own lives during that school year by attempting to eat better and play more outside during recess.
                The project used all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. The students first learned basic knowledge, but then asked questions on why those facts were true. After this speakers came into the class room, which worked with the students' comprehension. They used analysis and synthesis to decide what their wellness center needed as well as how to put it on. They also had to use mathematics when deciding how much to charge for certain things like healthy food. Finally they all used evaluation when they made judgments on the idea of living healthy. This can be seen by those students who put in more effort to be healthy after the project was completed.
                I think the only thing I would really change about the project is attempting to apply more subjects. Mathematics is expressed slightly when the students had to charge people at the wellness center, but it did not seem like complicated mathematics. Students did use art to describe the ways they stay healthy at the beginning, though I'm not sure if all students had to participate in this part of the project. Writing could have been applied by having the students write up descriptions of their health center for the parents explaining how each station can help with someone's health based on the research done by the students. Print Page in IE