I do projects in my classroom. Does that mean Im doing PBL?
No. Nearly every teacher does projects, usually as the culmination of a unit of study. Some teachers initiate a project but dont create a need to know that gives students a reason to focus on activities, lectures, films, readings and group work. In a PBL classroom, every activity, every word spoken by teacher and student, every book read, every film watched, every lab completed is contextualized by the driving question of the project. Students examine and explore content as a tool to analyze and solve problems or present findings and informed opinions.
