This is lunch for the children. The people who made this lunch were 17 children between the ages of 3 and 5 in a kindergarten abroad.

They spent more than three weeks making plans, collecting information, drawing food delivery trucks, kitchen equipment, and three kitchen-related books, and completed a lunch-themed project. This lunch was the result of their project.

Who made lunch for us

The project started from this issue and was divided into three stages. The children divided their time and worked together to perform their duties. They observed and studied the delivery method of lunch, the production process, etc. separately, and finally made the data and conclusions into handicrafts, presented them in a role-playing manner, and displayed the works in the kindergarten.

The first stage-making a food delivery truck

The first discovery of the children was that the lunch food was delivered by truck. They asked the truck driver questions about the truck and where the lunch came from.

The second stage-a field trip to the kitchen

The children wrote down the questions they wanted to ask on paper and personally went to the Brody Middle School food kitchen for a field trip.

The third stage-role-playing and recording videos

Children will cook lunch for kindergarten through role-playing. During their lunch, the teacher will help them take a video, and then send the video to each child's home for him and his parents to watch.

Finally, the teacher showed the children's thought diagrams before and after the start of the project on the corridor, so that their parents and teachers and children in other classes can see how much they have improved in their studies.

Idea diagram at the beginning of the project

Idea diagram after the project is over

In fact, before the start of this project, many children believed that lunch was made by Noemi, the teacher's assistant, because she delivered lunch to the class every day.

Now the children have experienced firsthand how hard food is to come by, and know that we must cherish food and put an end to extravagance and waste. We must cherish the fruits of the labor of others and ourselves, and cherish everyone's contribution.

After the field trip, the children's division of labor became clearer

What is PBL?

The above is a real example of PBL. PBL (Project Based Learning) is a teaching method in which students acquire knowledge and skills through long-term inquiry and investigation to solve real, attractive and complex problems.

PBL has been widely adopted in many schools to replace traditional teaching methods. Its greatest value is that it allows children to divide and work together to explore and find solutions to problems.

And Wow, what I want to introduce to you todayChenxi Vegetarian Class, It is precisely the use of this high-quality teaching method.

According to research, schools that use PBL pedagogy have significantly improved students' classroom participation, enthusiasm, and learning effect. This is based on the psychological characteristics of children who are born to love games, desire to integrate into the collective, and emphasize practice over theory.

Chen Xi is able to take lessonsInquiry-based learning + PBL project-based learningCombining multiple sciences, problem-solving-oriented, using small group work, thematic debate, role experience, small reporter search, etc., to realize students' in-depth thinking and critical thinking, practical and innovative skills, and a sense of responsibility to meet challenges, and gain a sense of well-being in life..

Relative to traditional education

What are the advantages of Chenxi's vegetarian class?

The solution to the problem of China's traditional education model is this.

The Chenxi Su Neng Class directly starts from the problem, solves the problem when encountering the problem, and learns knowledge and skills from the process of solving the problem.

1. High degree of student participation and strong initiative in learning

Because PBL project-based learning is based on real problems, and students are in a dominant position，Challenging topics、Can show the final result after solving the actual problem，The teacher is only supervising and guiding, and more students are required to take the initiative to think and build a knowledge system about the project in their learning.

2. Interdisciplinary, exercise high-order thinking skills

The core of PBL is to solve problems. Students need to conceive solutions, constantly judge, evaluate, and analyze to obtain the best solutions. And a project may involve multiple subject knowledge and different fields, which promotes students to develop the habit of thinking about problems from multiple angles.

3. Cultivate teamwork and communication skills

Project-based learning is based on group teamwork. Students need to communicate effectively many times and accurately express their views in order to achieve the final result. In the evaluation session, combined with multimedia display, oral and written expression skills were more exercised.

4. Multiple assessments

Unlike stereotypical test scores, the evaluation after the completion of PBL is multi-faceted and multi-faceted. It not only evaluates the results, but also pays more attention to the process of students exploring and practicing. Teachers can also tap each student's strengths based on their performance, give full play to their strengths, and make students more confident.

Children can truly become the “center” and “master” of learning

Children can be immersive and truly feel

Children can feel cooperation and trust

Of course, the process of the project is definitely not smooth sailing. They will encounter many difficulties, experience many failures, and sometimes even find that the previous method is wrong, and they need to start from scratch and find a solution again.

The completion of the entire project requires many discussions, attempts, reflections, criticisms and revisions. This repeated process also cultivates children's frustration resistance, so that they will not give up easily when they encounter anything.

To be able to do this successfully is precisely based on our conscious efforts to establish a mature Chenxi vegetarian class teaching system to bring better quality and more socially meaningful education to children, so that children can grow up in the sun.