Project-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered teaching and learning strategy which enables students to acquire new knowledge and skills in the course of designing, planning and creating a product or performance.
Students are given a clearly stated problem that requires a specific set of conclusions or a solution that directly responds to the problem. Real world connections are made through the application and integration of content from different subject areas during the production process.
The Buck Institute for Education defines project-based learning as “ a systemic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills through an extended inquiry process structured around complex authentic questions and a carefully designed products and tasks”. Esch, (1998) outlines the production model steps which students following in project based learning:
The production process and the end product in project-based learning engage students in doing rather than passively receiving knowledge thus allowing them to create their own knowledge.