Thursday, May 16, 2013

The Website: Guided Research Home Base

The website is the home base for guided research.

The website provides the initial paths to student exploration and investigation.

The website is an efficient self-guided resource center that responds to students/families' questions and needs 24-7 leaving room for important coaching and guidance during the time-on-task in the classroom.

A useful guided research website should include the following:
  • Project introduction and checklists.
  • Project examples and exemplars.
  • Project research resources, both online and offline.
  • Project Enrichment
The website should not be static, but instead serve as a flexible piece that morphs and changes as students' needs, standards, and resources change.

Utilizing a website as the home base for project/problem base learning brings all students and their families into 21st century learning and design, and prepares our students for the information-laden, connection-full world where they will one day independently live, learn, and work. 

Here's an example of our latest project website.  What would you add?  What would you take away?