What is project-based learning?
Quick answer
Project-based learning organises teaching around an extended, real task that students complete and present, with content taught at the point it is needed.
Roughly eighty percent of NASCA class time is hands-on build time, closing with a showcase each term.
In context
The evidence of learning is the artefact and the explanation of it, which is considerably harder to fake than a worksheet.
It also produces something a student can show a parent, a judge or an admissions officer.
In a NASCA classroom
Roughly eighty percent of NASCA class time is hands-on build time, closing with a showcase each term.
Related terms
STEAM education
STEAM education teaches science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics as one connected practice, usually through projects where students design, build and test something real.
Design thinking
Design thinking is a structured way to solve problems for real people: understand them, define the problem sharply, generate options, build a rough prototype and test it with users.
Capstone project
A capstone project is a substantial final piece of work where a student applies everything learned across a programme to one problem of their own choosing.