Chapter 8

There are teachers that teach their lessons, assign their homework, and the students swallow endless amounts of information, hold it in there mouth and then on test day they spit it out on paper, turn it in, and wash their mouths out and forget about everything they just "learned". I know this because I am one of those students. So how does a teacher teach students things that they will remember and use? They have to branch out the learning outside the classroom. It is crucial for teachers to branch out student learning and connect things in the classroom with problems in the real world. This keeps the students interested in the learning in the classroom, and gives it a personal aspect that the student can relate to and remember. It is important for the human brain to connect learning for it to remember it also it provides interest for the students so they remain engaged.


Branching teaching out and connecting lessons to the real world is one of the major benefits of Project Based Learning. It allows students to see how the work they do in school will be used in real life and allows them to explore subjects that they are interested in. They get to experience real professionals, in actual fields that the students could join when they graduate. It encourages learning beyond public schools and helps students go to college. It also encourages a desire to learn about subjects that students will be attracted to. In our project we get to branch out all sorts of different things into fitness. We can show students different events such as charity runs, and community fitness events. Also we can show the students different medical doctors who can come into the classroom and talk about the medical field.

And if students see my YouTube video, they will want to exercise to get big muscles and be awesome all the time like me