Project Based Learning

• Why did you choose this project as your favorite of the six? Identify specific aspects that appeal to you.
• Which higher-level thinking skills (from Bloom's Taxonomy) does the project utilize?
• What (if anything) about the project could be improved?

My favorite project out of the six was My Healthy Self Project. I really liked how the elementary students spent a fair amount of time learning about what healthy means looked liked and consisted of. The students were able to get advise from experts (pediatrician, yoga instructor, massage therapist, psychiatrist) as well as watch each of them give a presentation on what healthy looked like in their individual fields. When the pediatrician came, the students were able to see what a normal physical for a child their age would look like.

This project engaged both students and their parents and the students learned what a healthy meal should look like, as well as healthy exercises for each one of them to do. Ultimately, students used the highest point of Bloom's Taxonomy in that they had to evaluate what the healthy looked like for them. The teacher posted that after the students completed the project, they were all very conscious about packing lunches from home, and making sure that their lunch from home was nutritionally balanced. They had the knowledge to make the right decision when it came to applying healthy food to their everyday lives. Students also learned great ways for them to each get enough exercise each day, and the teacher challenged them to think of ways that they give both their body and brain exercise each day. Students also used synthesis in the end of their project when they opened up their state of the art wellness center, which put together all of the knowledge the students learned throughout the project and used this knowledge to open up this center in their classroom for parents and the community to use.

I don't think that I would change much to this project if I were to incorporate this project based learning project into my classroom. I really like how the students get to see experts, and ask them for advise as well as learn the basics to nutrition and what to look for when buying food or packing lunches. The students learn a lot about what it means to be healthy and get the right amount of energy and this project proved to be successful when the students began applying their knowledge to health to their everyday life.

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