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Maclean High School

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Enquiry Based Learning

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Between Monday 26th November and Wednesday 12th December all students in Years 7, 8 & 9 will be participating in developing a unit of work using the principles of Project Based Learning (PBL).  This will be a cross faculty whole school program aimed at allowing students to use their imaginations and research skills to develop practical solutions to complex problems.

The program starts with a key question which frames the unit of work. All subjects will be examining that question in terms of their subject area and syllabus descriptions. Year 7 will be examining the question “What can be done to make housing more sustainable in the future?” and Year 8 and 9 will be looking at “Will it be possible for mankind to colonize Mars?”

We are striving to maintain the motivation of students over the last few weeks of the school year. I am very hopeful trying something different like this will result in much higher levels of student engagement and culminating in the development of higher order thinking skills.

During this time Year 11 will be continuing with their HSC course work and Year 10 will be working on skills in preparation of the senior studies.

Dan Kelly, Head Teacher Information Technology.