Trying to identify the Very First Project I ever worked on, in order to consider what lessons I might have learned from it, was much more challenging than I expected. I’m sure that as a child, I worked on multiple art projects, but those are usually relatively limited in scope and might not afford the same opportunities for learning. Also, while I definitely learned how to do multiple things—multiple skills—as a child, those situations don’t always present themselves as projects, per se.
Regardless, I’ve identified three contenders for my Very First Project—or project-based learning moments, at least: learning how to tie my shoes, which I do remember; an illustrative art project during grade school, which I return to occasionally for its primary lesson; and my first research project, a term paper of sorts, when I was in third grade. All three predate my first working experience, which was delivering newspapers door to door (go figure). And all three taught me something I still use to this day.
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