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[rucky]

to provide the fundamentals needed to complete the project, and as the primary reference. I've studied and taught project-based learning. The way of approaching it does not involve tossing out the standard curriculum & direct instruction at all. It's a way to integrate several concepts taught in the classroom and extending it to real-life application. It's more rewarding to teach and more fun to learn this way, and learning it improves test scores is not surprising to me - but it does reinforce my experience with the approach.