Picture students working together to tackle these questions, issues, and challenges:
- Is it better to buy or lease a car?
- Which element of the Period Table is most important?
- Why has a woman never been U.S. President?
- What makes a good Vice President?
- Is it more important to know the area of perimeter of an object?
- Is Picasso's art worth its price?
- Design a house on the moon.
- What if the world ran out of oil tomorrow?
- Could the British have avoided the American Revolution?
- Is it better to use more adjectives or adverbs in song lyrics?
These aren't the typical questions students are asked in school. There's more than one solution, and responses cannot simply be copied and pasted from a website. In fact, these are Driving Questions for Project Based Learning. Answers to these questions are so complex that they require students to create something to demonstrate what they have learned.
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