Project Based Learning

Edutopia published a blog about the six strategies to teaching with one of them being project based learning.  I truly agree with them that projects are a great way to give the students the ability to be able to demonstrate their knowledge at a different level and with various other means.  I teach an archaeology class and the students learn about ancient civilizations and then create their own made up ancient civilization.  They develop artifacts as part of this project to represent the different aspects of the culture.  The students seem to really develop a deep understanding of the ancient civilizations through this project.