Why did you choose this project as your favorite of the six? Identify specific aspects that appeal to you.
This project combines a lot of standards in one large project, it also add some real world elements in the budgeting of finances.The part I liked the most was the project added competition between the students who are trying to win the 2050 contract. I think adding the competition is very important as I think the students will preform better.
Adding the video at the end also adds important skills in working as a team and preforming as a group, much like a real world project bid I think this is a useful skill for students to learn at an early age and I see it as a skill that is missing even at college level these days.
Which higher-level thinking skills (from Bloom's Taxonomy) does the project utilize?
This PBL project uses comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation which is all of the higher level thinking skills. The math skills is a skill that they need to learn and they are putting that math skill into designing a project which they will need to think outside the box to solve the "problem", then they will need to create a video and sell that knowledge to the other class teams.
What (if anything) about the project could be improved?
I would like to show the students local buildings that use modern technology, for example taking the students to the UofO and looking at the business school and the science building underground. Then I would put tough restrictions on what they can use to design the building using local building code, which could be presented by a local builder or someone from government to keep them thinking even more about what restrictions they may face in real life and think harder about real world restrictions and explore why so many buildings look the same today.
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