• What Is Self-Directed Learning?
  • Action Research
    • Quantitative Data
    • Qualitative Data >
      • The Benefits of SDL
      • The Cautions to SDL
      • Student Quotes
  • What's Next?
    • Improvements and Reflections
    • Upcoming Data
  • How To Start SDL in Your Class
  • Further Resources
    • SDL Student Examples
    • SDL Student Projection
    • PYP Subject Strands
    • SDL Essential Elements Reflection Form
    • Attitude and Disposition Survey Questions (Updated)
    • CARP Visual Design
Self-Directed Learning

Student Examples

Student Examples


Here, you can find a few examples of what students in our class learned about and how they chose to demonstrate and share out their learning. 

If you are wondering what students might choose to learn about during self-directed learning, here is a list of topics my students chose over one school year: Indochinese tigers, peaches, how to make slime, how to tell jokes, marine life, labradors, how to make a YouTube channel, cooking, do-it-yourself, Star Wars, parkour, how to use redstone in Minecraft, simple machines, how to create a Minecraft server and build a world, stop motion, airplanes, painting, the cave of Lascaux, Smiggle, how to make slime, how to make an iMovie, Ancient Egypt, Anne Frank, pineapples, how to make a website, healthy desserts, how dinosaurs evolved, cells, nerf guns, space, LEGO stop animation, the American Revolution, apples, hair, lice, moon jellyfish, box jellyfish, tornadoes, killer whales, tigers, lions, great white sharks, chipmunks, bald eagles, armadillos, FIFA '16, floods, volcanoes, DNA, the internet, how gravity works, capybaras, watermelons, humanitarians, coding, One Direction, spiders, hurricanes, Segways, the history of gymnastics, photography, magic, white tigers, blueberries, hedgehogs, arctic foxes, otters, types of oranges, pug adaptations, mosasaurus, Edison robots, inland taipans, how to make a map in Minecraft, asteroids, meteors, comets, scorpions, squids, compasses, light bulbs, the Olympics and claw machines. 
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  • What Is Self-Directed Learning?
  • Action Research
    • Quantitative Data
    • Qualitative Data >
      • The Benefits of SDL
      • The Cautions to SDL
      • Student Quotes
  • What's Next?
    • Improvements and Reflections
    • Upcoming Data
  • How To Start SDL in Your Class
  • Further Resources
    • SDL Student Examples
    • SDL Student Projection
    • PYP Subject Strands
    • SDL Essential Elements Reflection Form
    • Attitude and Disposition Survey Questions (Updated)
    • CARP Visual Design