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Extreme Travel Adventure Challenge
Welcome
Welcome to the Extreme Travel Adventure Challenge home page. Over the next few days you will have the opportunity to participate in a very interesting process known as Problem-Based Learning (PBL). PBL will help you become problem solvers using a real-world problem. During a PBL experience, your teacher will no longer be your source of information. Instead, you will take a more active role and will be held responsible for your own learning. This might seem different to many of you, but we think that you will find this to be an exciting and rewarding way to learn.
Your teachers will provide learning resources as you move through the PBL process. They might ask you questions even if they know the answer. They might ask “why?” two or three times in a row, so that you will explain your thinking and justify your conclusions. You should keep in mind that questioning an idea does not mean it is wrong. Your role is to speak up, deal with apparent mistakes, and ask questions when you don’t understand. You need to know that no idea is “stupid”, and that the only poor question is the one you fail to ask. As students you must assume responsibility for making meaning from facts that you have gathered as part of the PBL process.
Because PBL is very interactive and depends strongly on cooperative group work, there are clear expectations for your interactions with other students. Teachers will help you understand what it means to work cooperatively. They will assist you to make tasks and procedures clear, and learn how to work together equally and fairly to reach a common goal.
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Support for program number HST-ED-90285.01-A was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Copyright (c) 2007 Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation Museum and Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana. Staff of Challenger Learning Centers and instructors of classes involved with Challenger Learning Center missions may reproduce this WebQuest guide for classroom and educational purposes. Otherwise this work may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed, in any form or by means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise – without the prior written permission of the copyright owners. This page is based upon the WebQuest model. |