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Title: The First Thanksgiving
 

This relatively simple problem is scheduled prior to and after the Thanksgiving break. This timing allows students to find other sources of information away from campus and to relate their research to their own Thanksgiving dinner. It is the first of two problems on protein foods. Five problems of increasing complexity have preceded this problem so it enhances the students' feeling of mastery of the PBL process. In Class 3 a brief discussion of at least one learning issue, resource, and research finding by each group is valuable to both the instructor and the class. Outside of class the students use their private WebCT Discussion group to facilitate group communication and the problem write-up process. (Although the group communication and write-up processes are easily facilitated by WebCT, they can be carried out by other less technology-oriented methods that may require more time.)

  © Carolyn Manning, Univ. of Delaware, 2004.
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