Project-Based Learning Reflection

Project-Based Learning is an opportunity to allow students to demonstrate multiple aspects of their learning. Our project allows students to demonstrate basic math computational skills and how those skills can apply to their future decisions. Our project allows students to research colleges that they want to attend and research their future career. Next, students will develop a monthly budget depending on income based on their career. Once they have developed a monthly budget, the students will research automobiles and build an amortization schedule of the monthly payments. Students will then analyze their remaining funds and plan a vacation. Finally, students will also plan the expenses involved with planning a party. Our project encourages students to study, analyze, and reflect on how certain decisions can affect what students can and cannot do with their money. Our project also allows students to use many computer software applications. They must use the internet to research information, ComicLife to present many of their choices, and VoiceThread to produce an on-going story of their entire project. This project demonstrated how the use of technology in an multiphase project can benefit students. It forces them to research data, analyze their data, and make decisions based on their analysis. It should also show students how their decisions can affect other parts of their life and what they can afford.