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I never thought about this until we did our first PBL project on animals earlier this year, and a grade 2 student chose this as her question. This was one of the first signs to show we were on the right path, and that this project was destined to become one of our favourites.<\/p>\n

My How Might We from our 2nd F2F<\/p>\n

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So far, I have come full circle in my thinking during this PD experience. In our first f2f, I thought my focus would be on PBL. In January, I decided to shift my focus to gifted students and learn how to best select age\/ability\/interest based assignments that are appropriate, meaningful, and self-motivating for grade 2 students. It was interesting to read the feedback I received on the Crowdsourced Inspiration activity, which overwhelmingly recommended PBL as the best approach. So now I’m back to my original How Might We Question: How might we make PBL a regular part of our elementary program?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, my teaching partner and I decided to make PBL our main focus this year and are discovering there’s a lot to learn! I’ve included a brief summary of our experience so far this year.<\/p>\n

Project #1 Neighbourhood Animal Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

-each student chose a local animal of interest to study and formed 3 questions (2 closed and 1 open) to answer<\/p>\n

PBL Worries<\/strong><\/p>\n