APPLY PROSPECTUS EVENTS Home // Career Development Programme // Project Based Learning Project Based Learning 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 a complex question, problem, or challenge. Essential elements of Project Based Learning include: Significant content – At its core, the project is focused on teaching students important knowledge and skills, derived from standards and key concepts at the heart of academic study. 21st century competencies – Students build competencies valuable for today’s world, such as problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity/innovation, which are explicitly taught and assessed. In-Depth Inquiry – students are engaged in an extended, rigorous process of asking questions, using resources, and developing answers. Driving question – Project work is focused by an open-ended question that students understand and find intriguing, which captures their task or frames their exploration. Need to know – students see the need to gain knowledge, understand concepts, and apply skills in order to answer the Driving Question and create project products. Voice and choice – Students are allowed to make some choices about the products to be created, how they work, and how they use their time, guided by the teacher. Critique and revision – The project includes processes for students to give and receive feedback on the quality of their work including a public presentation. Apply now for September 2021! Join us in September and #ProgrammeYourFuture for a career in industry with our specialisms in engineering and cyber security. APPLY NOW Tweets by ScarboroughUTC EMPLOYER: McCain Foods Ltd SYNOPSIS: Students in KS4 have to complete an assignment focusing on drill powered pumps as a key part of their Cambridge National in Engineering Design qualification. To enthuse and motivate students in the completion of this assignment a McCain maintenance expert visits students to give a presentation at the assignment introduction stage. In this presentation they find out about the wide range of pump applications at the McCain foods manufacturing plant, and get to investigate the pump components. McCain Foods also support our KS5 Project Management for Engineers students through presentations and student visits to work with their project management team. This gives the students an industrial context for the theory they have to learn in preparation for the external test. VIEW ALL OUR SPONSORS Sign up to SUTC updates Get updates directly to your inbox from Scarborough UTC 1 Ashburn Road, Scarborough North Yorkshire, YO11 2JW Email: enquiries@scarboroughutc.co.uk Telephone: 01723 821621 Useful links Privacy Policy Policies Copyright 2021 Scarborough UTC. All rights reserved. Company Number: 08902599 Website by Sowdens