Using project based learning to help student understanding

Originally published at: https://eduk8.me/2017/04/using-project-based-learning-help-student-understanding/

In learning, there may be no greater tool for students than hands-on experience. Consider a classroom of first-graders who were lead in an endeavor to raise trout eggs while understanding environmental impacts. Or a high-school biology teacher who had her students create a project on any system in the human body, with results that included everything…