Projects Based Learning
K-5- In addition to our daily curriculum and a multitude of smaller projects done throughout the school year each grade level is assigned specific projects.
K- Schoolyard Wildlife/Black Bear Curriculum
1st- Monarch Migration
2nd- Audubon Adventures
3rd- Vermiculture/Black Bear
4th- Give Forest A Hand
5th- Discovering Florida’s Scrub

6-8- Learning Gate’s vision is to implement a Project Based Learning style for our middle school students is in the beginning stages.  Although, community service projects have always been an integral part of our curriculum in gradesK-5 it was important to continue that strong emphasis into the middle school.  Project-based learning (PBL) is a model for classroom activity that shifts away from the classroom practices of short, isolated, teacher-centered lessons the norm in middle school curriculum and instead emphasizes learning activities that are long-term, interdisciplinary, student-centered, and integrated with real world issues and practices. One immediate benefit of practicing PBL is the unique way that it can motivate students by engaging them in their own learning. PBL provides opportunities for students to pursue their own interests and questions and make decisions about how they will find answers and solve problems. PBL also provides opportunities for interdisciplinary learning. Students apply and integrate the content of different subject areas at authentic moments in the production process, instead of in isolation or in an artificial setting. PBL helps make learning relevant and useful to students by establishing connections to life outside the classroom, addressing real world concerns, and developing real world skills. Many of the skills learned through PBL are those desired by today's employer, including the ability to work well with others, make thoughtful decisions, take initiative, and solve complex problems independently.