In Project-Based Learning (PBL), students investigate open-ended questions and apply their knowledge to produce authentic products. They work collaboratively to solve problems that matter to them.
- Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss

Driving Question

How can morals taught in fairytales / fractured fairytales be related  to our lives in Merrylands? 

What morals from the past are still relevant today?  

Students in pairs or small groups decide what kind of experience and moral to write about, compose a script, and finally present their story to a student audience in a medium of their choice.

Strega Nona

Students Identified 

• elements that may indicate that the story is a fairytale.
  
• geographical regions where Strega Nona likely originated
• Story Elements: Characters, Setting, Conflict, Resolution.

CREATE

• We've created Character Charts in small groups and a Mind Map of the fairytale we want to write. Using this information, we have began writing our own fairytales.

• We are now designing a modern television/newspaper advertisement to promote one of the fairytales identified in the previous two charts- The ‘Character Chart’ and the ‘Good v’s Evil Chart’.