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Duke  \nNew comments have come in on several students’ blog  \nposts. The students look on excitedly as the teacher  \nshows the comments on the Smart Board. Dontae  \nmentions that a neighbor stopped him the other day to talk about the blog. Several students ask the teacher to check on the number of hits the blog has received.  \nNell K. Duke is a professor of language, literacy, and culture, and a professor in the combined program in education and psychology, atthe University of Michigan. Her work focuses on early literacy development, particularly among children living in poverty. The author and coauthor of numerous journal articles and books, she has served as a coprincipal investigator of projects funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, among other organizations. This article is adapted from her book Inside Information. Copyright © 2014 by Nell K. Duke. Reprinted by permission of Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved.  \nThis blog created by third-graders provides information about plants and animals that live around their school. While their blog’starget audience is people who live near the school, they are excited to see comments from people in other parts of the region as well.  \nStudents were inspired to start the blog after learning about Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, who writes areader-friendly informational blog about marine life, primarily in the Caribbean. The students created their own blog, imitating many of Johnson’s techniques. After learning about how to observe plant and animal life, and then observing the area around their school, each student chose a plant or animal of interest—such as moths, maple trees, snakes, and squirrels, to name a few—and researched it using a variety of informational sources. Like Johnson, the students also interviewed people about their interactions with local plant and animal life. Even in their urban area, they found evidence of a rich array of wildlife.  \nOver the course of the project, their teacher taught informational reading and writing skills as well as content. For example, the teacher taught students how to organize the information they  \n4 AMERICAN EDUCATOR | FALL 2016  \ngathered and plan their writing using a planning map. The teacher knew that this strategy helped address part ofa state standard for third-graders to “group related information together” when writing, but the students focused on learning the strategy to help serve the project in which they were so engaged. Indeed, students were engaged throughout the project—even, to the teacher’s delight, during revision and editing. Students’ usual refrains of “I’m done”were replaced with tireless efforts to make their blog posts as informative, clear, and clean as possible before posting them on the Internet for their school neighbors—and all the world—to see.  \nWhat I just described is project-based learning. * In this approach, students work over an extended time period for a purpose beyond satisfying a school requirement—to build something, to create something, to respond to a question they have, to solve a real problem, or to address a real need. For example, students might work to plan, plant, and cultivate a garden to help feed the hungry in their community; develop a guidebook for visitors at a nature preserve; study the problem of wasting food and then develop a plan to reduce waste in the school cafeteria; or research and write a history of their local community. Along the way, teachers build knowledge and teach skills, but in students’ minds, the knowledge and skills serve to meet the project’s goal (while in the teacher’s mind, they may also address specific state standards and meet district curriculum requirements) .  \nUnderstanding Project-Based Learning  \nIn part because it often addresses real-","cbCaijDfLdJhKaZu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijDfLdJhKaZu","pdf",341106,"English","# Project-Based Instruction\n## A Blog Project with Real-World Purpose\n## Understanding Project-Based Learning\n## Interdisciplinary Work and Communication\n## Evidence for Improved Knowledge and Skills","[{\"question\":\"How does the class blog project improve students’ informational reading and writing?\",\"answer\":\"Students research plants and animals around their school using informational sources, interview community members, and write blog posts organized through planning maps. 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