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Helping students understand geo-political complexities in the 🇺🇦 MUN Project
How do we help students make geo-political associations and connections in preparing for their Model United Nations Project and Conference? This was...
Helping Students Understand Multiple 🇺🇦 Perspectives: ‘Walk the Line’ Activity
Have you started debates yet for your 🇺🇦 Model United Nations Conference? Last week we discussed the importance of scaffolding the skills students...
Model United Nations Conference: Building Critical Thinkers, Empowering Global Citizens
This spotlight experience is shared in its entirety by Rafael Villaseñor Santiago, the Director of Innovation at Colegio Champal in Mexico. His...
Scaffolding Skills for your 🇺🇦 Model United Nations Project: 🥗 Fruit Salad and 🐅 Zoo Animals
Holding your first Model United Nations Conference can be scary for students. It requires the ability to think quick on their feet, speak publicly,...
Determining Real Vs. Fake News: Helping students become more critical researchers in the MUN Project
Let's face it, there's a lot of fake news out there right now. The picture to the left is from a state sponsored Russian news channel. And while it...
Free Background Research Guide: Model United Nations Conference Ukraine Invasion
Have you begun to discuss the Ukraine Invasion with your kids? How will you support their research in better understanding the complexities of the...
Addressing Ukraine Invasion Through a Model United Nations Project w/Rob Gold
Pictured above is one of my former student ambassadors addressing the General Assembly in Rome around nuclear disarmament. At the time of the photo,...
The Starting Point for Russia and Ukraine Conflict: Think, Puzzle, Explore Activity
Are you taking the challenge of launching into PBL and exploring the Russia/Ukraine conflict through a Model United Nations? Before diving in and...
How to Talk about Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A mini-project to promote dialogue, understanding and global citizenship
Like many of you, I am saddened, disheartened, shocked and outraged by Russia's invasion of Ukraine over the past weekend. Why did this happen? How...
How to Celebrate and Honour Black History Month: And Also Take Your first Steps into the PBL pool
How do you plan to honour and celebrate Black History Month with your students? With inequities, social injustice, and racism rearing their ugly...
Dispelling the 5 Greatest Myths of PBL: With One Simple Bowling Metaphor
As a learner-centered practitioner, I know I don't have to convince you that project-based learning is the #1 way to grow critical thinkers, and...
How to Find Collaborators and Expand Audiences for PBL with Kelly Pfeiffer
Being an innovative and imaginative Project-Based teacher can be lonely. Sometimes we are the only ones doing this work in the corner classroom of a...
Build Collaboration before Building Projects: 5 Team Building Activities to Try
So you ran your first project-based experience with student teams and it was a disaster. ??♂️ Some students sat back and watched their teammates do...
How to make the Online Space More Collaborative: 5 dead easy tools for Project Collaboration
Help! Beyond Zoom Breakout Rooms, how do I help students collaborate? This is the challenge an elementary teacher came to me with last week. Lots of...
Episode 24: Improving Mental/Emotional Well-Being through PBL w/ Emily Burk
How can play therapy help elementary students cope with the trauma caused by the pandemic? This was the BIG question facing Emily Burk's (MakerSpace...
Do the Project First! How to almost guarantee project success
At the end of the year, right before Winter Break, I ask the teaching teams that I coach to reflect on their past projects using two reflective...
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