TEACHING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ART-FORGERY PROJECT

Project-based education is a method to engage all learners, regardless of their ages, culture or gender, to explore questions meaningful for them. The approach helps people to construct understanding of discipline core ideas and the process of investigation. We used project-based approach to educate primary student teachers to design a multidiscipline science and art intervention. The artefact was four art forgery investigations: colour, technology, style and communication. To evaluate the learning we asked student teachers a post-project design of a new lesson combining science and arts which takes into account divergent learners, and also to reason all their choices. These data will be discussed.