http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com en-us Copyright 1976-2013 Sugar Inc. All rights reserved. http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/Putting-Nerdy-Teacher-Back-Classroom---Let-Project-Based-Learning-Begin-5147479 <a href="http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/Putting-Nerdy-Teacher-Back-Classroom---Let-Project-Based-Learning-Begin-5147479"></a><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;">The most wonderful thing happened to me this year – I lost my job. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After several years in full time tech integration, budget cuts landed me back into the classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Isn’t that a strange twist of fate?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Yes, I was a bit bent out of shape at first, but quickly (and I mean in just a few days) realized how amazing it would be to take all the training I’ve been doing with teachers and directly give it to the students we’re trying to impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What would it be like to actually run my own 21^st century classroom?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What tools would I need?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What projects would I want to run?</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;">I tossed the ideas around for a few weeks while I was finishing up my summer nerdy teacher workshops and pulled out one of my favorite novels to teach, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Treasure Island</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Knowing that I would be a project based classroom, I immediately went to work on designing a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Treasure Island </i>unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Today’s post will feature the steps I took to develop this unit in hopes of guiding other teachers into developing their own projects.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/Putting-Nerdy-Teacher-Back-Classroom---Let-Project-Based-Learning-Begin-5147479#read-more" title="Read more." class="read-more">Read More</a> http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/Putting-Nerdy-Teacher-Back-Classroom---Let-Project-Based-Learning-Begin-5147479#comment pbl project_based_learning digital_piracy anti-piracy Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:33:34 PDT MrsSmoke http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/Putting-Nerdy-Teacher-Back-Classroom---Let-Project-Based-Learning-Begin-5147479