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Explore, Question, Ponder, and Imagine: Projects Give Kids the Chance To Delve Deeply and Find Their Own Way through Challenging Intellectual Terrain.
Sherman, Lee – Northwest Education, 2002
The project approach to learning engages students' natural bent for discovery through observation, play, hands-on tasks, and real-world challenges. Project-based learning complements systematic instruction in basic skills by making discrete bits of information relevant. Teachers must design projects that provide enough latitude for student…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Philosophy
On the Trail of History in Montana: Crossing Great Distances of Time and Place, Six Rural Teachers and Their Students Plunge Together into the Enduring Lessons of Lewis and Clark.
Weeks, Denise Jarrett – Northwest Education, 2003
A project to help teachers use technology to enhance learning is tied to the Lewis and Clark Expedition bicentennial, to bring a sense of adventure to learning. Four examples of projects along the Montana section of the expedition's trail show how outdoor, experiential learning is enhanced by the use of global positioning systems, digital cameras,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, History Instruction
Many Nations: A Confluence of Stories.
McClure, Larry – Northwest Education, 2003
An Oregon high school offered an interdisciplinary history/science course on the Lewis and Clark Expedition that focuses on experiential learning and student projects. Camping and field trips helped make the material relevant as the course moved from a study of the primordial Pacific Northwest, through the Native American period, to what has…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Field Trips, High Schools, History Instruction
Snapshots: Marimba Magic; Rediscovering Coyote and Raven; New Life for an Old War; Good Health, Good Heart; Winds of Change; What the Forest Gives; Lessons in the Loop; a Talking Book.
Reed, Bracken; Linik, Joyce Riha; Muir, Maya; Fisher, Amy – Northwest Education, 2002
Applications of project-based learning are illustrated by examples of projects involving music, art, history, a partnership with a hospital, Native American plant remedies, roller coaster design, and making a "talking book" (CD-ROM) in English and Lushootseed (language of the Tulalip Tribes). Project learning can meet standards while involving…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Taking Learning Outdoors: A Bitter Dispute over Water in Southern Oregon Becomes a Firsthand Lesson in History, Ecology, and Local Culture.
Paglin, Catherine – Northwest Education, 2002
An alternative school in southern Oregon that allows students to make up missing credits offers project-based thematic classes that take students outside the school. One course studied the Klamath Basin's water crisis and involved exploring the area and the perspectives of farmers, biologists, park rangers, and Native Americans. Courses culminate…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Ecology, Experiential Learning, Field Trips
Northwest Education, 2001-2002.
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Sherman, Lee, Ed. – Northwest Education, 2002
This document contains the four issues of Northwest Education published during the 2001-02 school year. Issue themes are: (1) "High Standards for All: Confronting the New Paradigm"; (2) "New Teachers: From Surviving to Thriving"; (3) "Living Lessons: How Projects Engage Kids and Deepen Understanding"; and (4)…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, After School Programs, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
A River Runs through It: A School on the Edge of the Columbia River Estuary Combines Science and Stewardship Right in Its Own Backyard.
Sherman, Lee – Northwest Education, 2002
The estuary at the mouth of the Columbia River in Wahkiakum County Washington) provides a natural laboratory for experiential learning. Wahkiakum High School students participate in interdisciplinary projects that have included habitat restoration, a salmon hatchery, stream restoration, tree planting, and recreating the final leg of the Lewis and…
Descriptors: Endangered Species, Environmental Education, Estuaries, Experiential Learning
Starting at the End: Alaska Project-Based Learning Expert Helena Fagan Insists That Good Projects Are Designed "Backward"--That Is, What Do We Want Kids To Know When They're Done? Interview.
Fagan, Helena; Sherman, Lee – Northwest Education, 2002
In this interview, Alaska's statewide trainer in project-based learning recommends that teachers plan projects by identifying the desired results, determining acceptable evidence, then planning the learning experience. Project-based learning encourages teacher collaboration and engages students so that learning becomes relevant. Teachers should…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Community Involvement, Educational Planning
A Journey of Surprises: Rivers Reveal Their Secrets to Idaho Students Researching Water Quality through Rigorous Scientific Inquiry.
Boss, Suzie – Northwest Education, 2002
Idaho secondary students learn the scientific method through outdoor environmental projects related to water quality monitoring. A program trains teachers to design project-based learning and provides extensive followup support. Five-day summer workshops immerse teachers in the types of projects they will orchestrate with their own students.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Environmental Education
Fin and Feather: Lessons Both Old and New Are Found in the Familiar Splash of the Salmon and the Novel Cluck of the Chicken.
Weeds, Denise Jarrett – Northwest Education, 2002
Descriptions of students projects raising chickens and studying salmon illustrate how project-based learning engages high-risk Alaska Native students. Projects make learning relevant, involve the community, increase student self-esteem, and help students and teachers bond with each other. A 4-day workshop for teachers emphasized how projects must…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education