1. Designing Your Project
Progress Check List
Check off each section as you complete it.
Module 1: Begin with the End in Mind
____ Overview: What should you consider before planning a project?
____ Explore 1: Develop a Project Idea
____ Explore 2: Decide the Scope of the Project
____ Explore 3: Incorporate Simultaneous Outcomes
____ Explore 4: Work from Project Design Criteria
____ Explore 5: Create the Optimal Learning Environment
____ Practice 1: Choose a Strategy
____ Practice 2: Choose a Project
____ Practice 3: Reflect online
Module 2: Craft the Driving Question
____ Overview: Look at a few inquiry questions
____ Explore 1: Guidelines for Crafting the Driving/Inquiry Question
____ Explore 2: Refining the Driving Question
____ Practice 1: Choose a Driving Question for your presentation
____ Practice 2: Reflect online
Module 3: Map the Project
____ Overview: What does a whole project look like?
____ Explore 1: Organize Tasks and Activities
____ Explore 2: Put your tasks in sequence (what needs to be done 1st
, 2nd
, 3rd
, etc)
____ Explore 3: Start the Project
____ Explore 4: Gather Resources
____ Practice 1: Reflect online
Module 4: Manage the Process
____ Overview: What skills will you need to successfully plan & execute your project?
____ Explore 1: Your Role as a Manager of the Project
____ Explore 2: Your Project Goals
____ Explore 4: Do Checkpoints & Milestones for your projects (when major tasks are
completed.)
____ Explore 5: Plan for Presentation
____ Practice 3: Reflect online
Module 5: Presentation
____ Overview: How will you present your learning for all of this time?
____ Explore 1: How to present to the teacher, students and visitors to the best
advantage.
____ Explore 2: Explaining what your Project Goals were
____ Explore 3: Showing your successes and failures
____ Explore 4: Showing learning (the most important goal).
____ Practice 3: Reflect online