Let's Review the PBL Map - Where are we up to?


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Let's have a look at our PBL Calendar for Term 2 - How are we tracking? 

Need to Knows
In light of our whole school PBL and data drawn from the teacher survey, this PL session will focus on Need to Knows. 

​Need to Know questions initiate inquiry at the beginning of a project. Need to Know questions are revisited throughout the project in order to track learning and support sustained inquiry. 

Let's watch this clip to begin: PBL WORKS: Need To Know on Vimeo 
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Individually, have a read of these short articles. We'll come back to share key takeaways. 
- Using the Need to Know List as a Planning & Assessment Tool | PBLWorks
- How We Use “Need to Know” Questions to Guide Sustained Inquiry | PBLWorks
- Revisiting Need to Know Questions

Key Tips for supporting students to generate and investigate N2Ks:
What resonates with what we already do? What could we tweak? 



Programming: 
Let's take a look at an example N2K programming sequence. 
Time to plan for the next steps of PBL. It could be:
- Organising Google folders or resources
- Mini lessons to answer N2Ks 
- Whole class N2K lessons 
- Creating invitations for K-2