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This document, part of the course materials for Educational Projects in the Natural Environment, focuses on the planning, development, and implementation of Project-Based Learning, offering an operational framework for designing high-quality projects. It starts with the identification of learning objectives, emphasizing the need to prioritize key knowledge, deep understanding, and transversal competences, and to align products, activities, and assessment with these objectives. Different types of questions that sustain inquiry are analyzed—essential questions, research questions, and guiding questions—and the text explains how to formulate driving questions that act as the backbone of the project. Special attention is given to the organization of cooperative work, detailing the conditions required for genuine cooperation: positive interdependence, individual accountability, interpersonal skills, and group reflection. In addition, strategies for scaffolding, activity management, and sequencing through milestones are described. Finally, the document addresses assessment in PBL, advocating for a balanced approach that combines formative and summative assessment, processes and products, and incorporates self-assessment and peer assessment as key elements of learning.

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