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=Team C Project Home= This website is collaboration project by team C in the NWC 9th grade academy PBL project. Members of the team will update this site with information related to the student project. The site will be used as an ongoing record of the planning of the first cross-curriculum project of Team C and an informational center for students.

The launch date for the project is April 25, 2008. The team had over 10 pre-launch meetings. This site is divided according to the steps to plan a project by Buck Institute of Education (www.bie.org). In addition to the sections described below, there are two special sections--documents and student info. The documents section is hard copies of meetings and items used in the project. The student info is the location for students to get information regarding the project. Here is the details of each section. You can assess each section in the navigation bar or clicking on the titles below.

__The Results__
This section is thinking about what things we want students to know at the end of the project. We start with two standards the students must know as a result of completing this project. You can also think of habits of mind the students can know as well. We concentrated on standards only. This section lists the standards we chose for each subject.

__The Question__
Projects start with a great question for students to answer. This is not the only method to use to create a project. The question comes from thinking about how the standards relate to real life. Brainstorming ideas of real life problems or professions helps to come up with the "driving question". This section shows the brainstorm of ideas and the end question.

__The Assessments__
There are a million ways a student can answer a question however it may not be what you want to assess. It is essential to think of the actual products you want the students to create. This is what you will assess so therefore it must be products that relate back to your standards. This section shows our planning for these assessments.

__The Map__
This section is the nuts and bolts of the project. It reviews the resources needed, the launch and end date of the project, how students are divided into teams and milestone information. This is the most detailed section of them all. This section shows the overview and details of each day of the project.

__The Management__
This section shows how we will manage the project once it is launched. It will give details on how to manage the classroom, handle stalled or challenged teams and work through unexpected problems.