What is a Problem-Based Learning Unit? 

In January of 2020, New Emerson Kinders set out on a mission to solve a problem: How will learners at our school increase their kindness toward teachers and each other? And why should they?

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Our Research

Click this Link to review the research resources for the Kindness Problem-Based Learning Unit. 

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Important Info

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PBL Guest Speakers 
​Videos

We decided to record the guest speakers so the young learners could refer back to them if needed.

• Kindness PBL Kick-off Event
https://vimeo.com/395108451
• Speaker -- Dr. Amy Gallagher 
https://vimeo.com/395109940
• Speaker -- Palisade HS KIC Group
https://vimeo.com/395112720
• Speaker -- Scott Stephens 
https://vimeo.com/395239960
• Speaker -- Counselor Leslie Atchison 
https://vimeo.com/395250878
• Speaker -- R-5 Teacher Adi Tilford
https://vimeo.com/395189397

Photos & Videos
​ Showing PBL Process

 See Pictures and Video clips as we take our PBL Journey.

PBL Presentation
Visual Aides & Prototypes

Four PBL Groups were created based on shared interest in solution ideas. Then the groups spent a week creating visual aides and prototypes for their presentations. 

Kindness Ninjas PBL Presentation
https://vimeo.com/397201658
Ninjas Notes of Kindness Video
https://vimeo.com/396845468
Kindness Ninjas Puppet Show https://vimeo.com/396850670
Kindness Creators Present PBL 
https://vimeo.com/397207023
Kindness Creators Song
​https://vimeo.com/395510061
Kindness People Present PBL
https://vimeo.com/397211859
Kindness People  Video
​https://vimeo.com/396842623
Kindness Club PBL Presentation
https://vimeo.com/397217226
Kindness Club Kindness Video
 https://vimeo.com/395504766

Kindness Fast Facts

Kindness is Teachable. Kindness is Contagious. Kindness makes us happier. Kindness makes us healthier.

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Side Effects of Kindness include: Anti-Aging, A Healthy Heart, Better Relationships, Joy, and the fact that Kindness is Contagious. 

Students Surveyed from 33 Schools

Out of 4 Students are Bullied Every Year Across the Nation.

Of Those Students put Kindness in Their Top 3 of Most Important Social Skills to Have

Changing the World thru Kindness!

Kid President

"Love changes everything. So fill the world with it." ~ Kid President
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z7gDsSKUmU

About Our School

New Emerson School is a K-5 public elementary school in Grand Junction, CO. We are also a lottery-based, magnet school for Mesa County Valley School District #51. Our school opened its doors in the 1990s and was originally focused on balanced literacy; however, we have expanded it to include Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math (STEAM) and performance-based and problem-based learning practices.
Read more about our Learner-Centered approach here:
 https://www.competencyworks.org/case-study/new-emerson-learning-the-effective-practices-of-the-learner-centered-classroom/ 

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2660 Unaweep       Grand Junction, CO         970.254.6500

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