This is a fun video that gives an example of various catapults that exists and they can be in all different sizes and can be a really dun activity to be involved with.

this is a visual helping tool to organize some thoughts about what you want your catapult to look like in the end product and what extents it can go to.

Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge. In Gold Standard PBL, Essential Project Design Elements include:

You know the hardest thing about teaching with project-based learning? Explaining it to someone. It seems to me that whenever I asked someone the definition of PBL, the description was always so complicated that my eyes would begin to glaze over immediately.

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