The purpose of our first learning experience, in a nutshell, was to create a way to get kids interested in learning about the Roman Forum. We came up with a board game, similar in concept to Cranium and trivial Pursuit (if you were to mix the two games together), in which the kids/students move around the board and try to answer one of each type of Question. Our topics were Art, History, Architecture and Construction, and Culture.
Although it may sound as if our initial assignment was straight forward and easy to figure out: It was not. I don't have the original PBL to post to show all my followers, but essentially, it was very open ended and it took a while before my group and I were able to figure out what exactly it was that the assignment was requesting we accomplish. After exploring our thoughts through tools like C-Maps and good old fashioned pen and paper, we discovered what our goal was. This was the longest process, and it was what our professors liked to refer to as "diverging".
The rest began to fall into place after we had a clear vision of what it was we wanted to accomplish. We had a very interesting and diverse group; majors varied from all over the UC Campus. I myself had the least useful major: Accounting. It didn't matter though, we each contributed in our own ways and successfully completed the project with almost no group issues, in my opinion. We worked very well together.
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