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Presentation Options in Project-based Learning (PBL)

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^Music, Art and Makerspaces ^21st Century Skills All Ages Strategy

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Flexible Thinking Expressive Language Organization Verbal Reasoning Verbal Memory Abstract Reasoning

Presentation Options in Project-based Learning (PBL)

If your students needs options for presentations that will use their strengths or you want to ensure they are aware of the variety of presentations formats

How To Apply It!

Project-based learning can be one of the most effective ways to engage students in learning while developing their critical thinking, collaboration, organization, and presentation skills.

Consider the goal of the project, the number of students participating, the time required, and the resources available to decide which presentation options students can use.

- Oral Presentations: Learner-presented assignments where the student stands up in front of the class. Digital presentations might be done with a variety of tools. Students also could use non-digital options such as posters.

- Panel of Experts: Students are the experts on a specific topic that they have researched. The teacher or classmates ask questions.

- Poster: Students create posters that can be hung on the wall or displayed at a table. Teachers, parents and other students have the opportunity to walk around and ask questions.

- Written: The traditional five paragraph essay is an option, but so are comics, writing a play, or writing a newspaper article.

- Debate: Students take different sides of an issue and debate the virtues of their side.

- Interview: Students interview an expert and write an article. Have students formulate key questions they want answered and then practice them on each other before conducting an interview. Remind students that the interviewer should be polite, listen closely (not argue or disagree), take careful notes and be prepared to ask follow-up questions.

- Create a Video: Students act out a story or an event to represent their findings, perhaps using a green screen.

- Jigsaw: Have students work on distinct pieces of a large problem. Each group presents their solution and the full group discusses the relationships between their different areas.

- Student Teaching: Students become the expert on a topic and then teach the class.

- Demonstration: Students do an active hands-on demonstration of what they learned.

- Work-based or Service Project: Students work with an outside organization that fits with their driving question and report back to their class on their accomplishments.

- Blog: Have students write a regular blog communicating their experiences and findings over time.

Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

The more students are authentically engaged in learning, the deeper their understanding and retention will be. Providing students with the opportunity to choose and demonstrate their project and findings using active and engaging means is more likely to motivate them. Research on appropriate scaffolding in project-based learning shows the effects on motivation and learning.