After watching The Mummified Chicken, Mutant Frogs and Rockets to the Moon I thought project based learning (PBL) will loosely relate to the final projects my students will be working on in one of my classes this semester, Introduction to Ski Area Management (ISAM). The reason I say it loosely relates is because like in The Mummified Chicken, Mutant Frogs and Rockets to the Moon, most of the information I have found has the students working mostly alone, whereas in this class they will be working very closely, as a group, throughout the semester. Due to the fact that I teach at a college that is very heavy in practical, experiential education, variations of PBL is a lot of what I do.
The students will have a project that will grow as the course moves through the semester, because much of what they will be doing is building a fictional ski area from the ground up as they learn about the different aspects of ski area management.
Example: They will learn general information about snow making: equipment needed, power, water source, payroll needs, etc. and then they will add this to their final project; most likely within their capital plan.
At the end of the semester they will be asked to present their final project to “board of investors” made up of fellow faculty and industry professionals to sell their plans and they will be graded accordingly based on the board’s responses and the boxes they circle on the rubric.
During the course of the project they will be asked to periodically fill of the following Project Report Card designed to expose any challenges the groups might be having:
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