PBL Day 3 and 4 (Creating our own by grade level)

 Guess our theme (answer at the bottom of this blog) ...

Day three and four has us working in grade level teams to come up with an amazing project based learning project to start the school year off with. Each grade level has a specific standards based essential question. We will be sharing the specifics of each unit in a future blog.

Working, learning and creating (just what our students will be doing in a few months)

As you can see we are working hard and very excited to share our projects with the students of DATA!

Our theme was "Go Team USA... red, white and blue"

PBL Training Day 2 (learning a lot)!

Another great day..
For more information on Project Based Learning check out:
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Guess the theme of the day (answer at the bottom)

 Reading and responding with some new ideas..

 Getting ideas from each other..

 Short video from the PBL experts...

 Bringing our ideas together what what PBL will look like at DATA

Day two was another rewarding and fun time...

and the theme was.....

Pajama Day!!!

PBL Day One (project based learning)

Some people might wonder how the teachers at DATA know how to incorporate project based learning using technology and art. Well..... we train in the summer. Here is day one of our week long training:

"Welcome" says our fearless leader...

Guess what the theme of the day was? Answer at the bottom of this post...

A good morning greeting from Dr. ARH

Getting ready to build (Thanks Alex)

More building and testing

Writing and posting lab report on thinkquest.org (and a great cruise director for the day)!

Great Day... Thanks All!

You got it correct, the theme was Hawaiian!

Bye Bye Butterfly!

What a great year! Thanks to everyone who gave it their all! Project based learning is fun!!!!!
Notice the butterfly I am wearing. Its in honor of all the wonderful students that I was lucky enough to spend time with and watch grow, learn and change. Please go on to do great things....

Last Day of School at DATA 2010-2011 Year (best ever!)

6th Grade GATE students summarizing our year with class highlights on their kite..

Thanks again for a great year!

Saving our Earth Unit (Inside class)

Students summarzing our Unit of Study on Earth... using a kite

 Great job kids!

Solar Boat Unit!

So much fun... Thanks Mr. Wulff...
The entire project was uploaded into Thinkquest.org and students were able to post their work, blog and learn.

The well planned out thematic unit included math, science and language arts.

 Instructional materials

 Technology for research and notes

 Supplies to build

 Sketching out hull designs

 Which one will win the solar boat regatta?

 Final touches

 Pre race practice

 Go.go.go...

This entire unit with example of student work can be found on the district website under project based learning

Roman Rap

Students focusing on standard 6.7.8 (Roman Influence) put together these amazing songs/ raps...

Roman Mosaics

How can you study Rome without making a mosiac?

 Researching and putting together

Well done...