Congratulations!

Congratulations, you made it!

A few modules ago, you started with a curriculum and a few ideas. Now you have a complete project, ready to take into your classroom.

What you’ve achieved

By now, you can:

• explain what makes a real PBL, and recognise the difference between a project-based unit and a traditional project, an inquiry or a task;
• find a strong topic where your curriculum, your students’ world and your own skills meet, and turn it into a driving question that makes students want to act;
• plan the research phase, deciding what information students need and where they can find it, and define products made for a real audience;
• check if a project is realistic, and adapt it when time, spaces or resources are limited;
• build an assessment plan that combines formative and summative assessment, involves different people and uses the right tools at the right moment;
• organise the whole project, from an entry event that sparks curiosity to a final event that celebrates your students’ work.

What comes next

The next step happens in your classroom. Your first project won’t go exactly as planned, and that’s fine: every PBL teaches something to the teacher too. Watch how your students react, listen to their feedback and change what doesn’t work. Your second project will be even better.

A last piece of advice before you go: keep your driving question visible. Write it on the board, put it on the wall, repeat it at the start of each lesson. When students lose their way, it will help them find it again.

Thank you for spending this time with us, and good luck with your project!