Blog Post #5

This week I watched multiple videos with Dr. Strange have conversations with one of his old students who is now a 3rd grade teacher Mr. Capps, who uses project based learning in his classroom. In the videos he talked about multiple project and how it captured his students attention to learning and even were able to teach Mr. Capps a thing or two. Mr. Capps goes on to talk about how not every project will go according to plan. One of his project was the students had to do a project about what it would be like to be a child in Afghanistan. One of the students parents was a veteran and felt very uncomfortable with his child learning about being a child over there. So Mr. Capps, being a respectful person and teacher, had to student complete a separate project that helped the student still learn about culture since that was the topic they were on originally. Seeing how project based learning is used in a 3rd grade setting made me even that much more interested in implementing PBL in my teaching curriculum.