Project Based Learning
Ten worked projects with a real question, a real audience and something built at the end. Plus a plain explanation of what separates this from a poster.
10 resources in this collection
Written by Eric Gonzalez-Payne, founder of Empathy School Bali.
10 resources
For adultsWhat Project Based Learning Actually Is
Teaching practice
The difference between a project and project based learning, which is not a technicality.
Ages 8 to 14Project: Why Does Nothing Grow in This Corner
Teaching practice
A real investigation with a real answer, run on a patch of your own site that nobody can explain.
Ages 9 to 15Project: Feed the School One Meal
Teaching practice
Grow, harvest, cost and cook a single meal for people outside the class.
Ages 9 to 15Project: Map Everything on Our Grounds
Teaching practice
A complete mapped and labelled site survey that the school actually uses afterwards.
Ages 10 to 15Project: Where Does Our Water Go
Teaching practice
Track every drop entering and leaving the site, then propose one change.
Ages 9 to 15Project: Run a Real Market Stall
Teaching practice
Plan, cost, produce, price and sell. Real money, real customers, real loss if it goes wrong.
Ages 10 to 16Project: Restore a Neglected Corner
Teaching practice
Baseline, intervention, monitoring and handover, on a patch of ground nobody uses.
Ages 9 to 15Project: Write the Guide for Next Year
Teaching practice
Produce the document the next class will actually use, and test it on them.
Ages 10 to 16Project: Design and Build One Playground Feature
Teaching practice
From brief to built object, with a real budget and real safety constraints.
Ages 11 to 16Project: An Oral History of This Place
Teaching practice
Interview people who have lived here thirty years and produce a record that did not exist before.