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Tech4 Learning: Recipes4 Success
If you're interested in developing project-based learning for your class, Tech4Learning provides tools for facilitating those projects and instruction in how to create and manage them. Free resources available, as well as resources by...
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Youth Learn: An Introduction to Inquiry Based Learning
As this site states in its opening sentence, "Inquiry-based learning is not a new technique." However, the suggestions and tips offered here might well help any teacher or teaching team to create or refine inquiry-based projects that...
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Edvisions: Project Based Learning
Let our students introduce you to the model . . . View their 25-minute video, "MummifiedChickens, Mutant Frogs and Rockets to the Moon" - a student-generated video introducing project-project based learning.
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Read Write Think: K W L Chart
Use this printable template to create a KWL (Know, Want to Know, Learned) graphic organizer.
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Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning
Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: What Is Problem Based Learning?
In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student "voice and choice," rigorous projects are carefully...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Assessment in Project Based Learning
[Free Registration/Login Required] As an educator do you struggle with how to assess students' learning in PBL framework? This video addresses the common assessment issues in PBL, how to assess content knowledge in a project, how to...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Students and Audience in Project Assessment
[Free Registration/Login Required] Get a glimpse of how to use peer critiques through student-created rubrics to give students timely feedback so they can make their work better. Site includes a video and an article. [54:38]
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Teach and Assess Creativity and Innovation in Pbl
Understand how PBL can help students learn a process for effective innovation in this article. Article points out three ways educators can teach creativity and innovation in PBL. Site also includes a video discussing the same issue as...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Leading With the 4 C's to Build the 5th C: Culture
[Free Registration/Login Required] A video and an article discussing how critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity in PBL can lead to a positive culture in the school. [32:12]
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Pbl Works: Managing Projects
[Free Registration/Login Required] Nervous about introducing a project or looking for a way to revamp the execution of a previously done project? This article and video shares some advice about project management from introduction to...
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Pbl Works: How Did I Start My Very First Project
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video exploring the anatomy of a project. Get an insight into how a teacher developed and executed a project from beginning to end. Understand the steps they took while working through...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Managing Projects in Middle and High Schools
[Free Registration/Login Required] Join a group of middle and high school teachers as they discuss how to effectively manage projects in the classroom. Understand what a project in a PBL classroom looks like and common project management...
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Pbl Works: How to Get High Quality Student Work in Pbl
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article and video addresses the ability of students to produce quality work which is a common concern of teachers with Project Based Learning. Learn how to guide students to create high quality...
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Pbl Works: Is Pbl Effective for Advanced Placement Courses?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video investigating the use of PBL in an AP course. Learn from the experiences of a teacher using PBL in her AP US Government course. Find out if you can really cover the course material...
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Pbl Works: Building Parent Support for Project Based Learning
[Free Registration/Login Required] A video and an article explaining how to get the school to understand the benefits of PBL. Build parent support by using these successful strategies for both teachers and administration. [17:44]
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Managing Your Project
[Free Registration/Login Required] A video looking inside a classroom using PBL. Get insider knowledge on how to launch and manage your project. Also observe how students form teams and work in teams throughout the project. [36:27]
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Pbl Works: What Does It Mean to Align Pbl With Common Core?
[Free Registration/Login Required] Seeing the phrase "CCSS Aligned" on everything and wondering if it truly aligned? This article and video discusses five considerations to look for in problem based learning. To ensure alignment to...
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Pbl Works: The Role of Pbl in Making the Shift to Common Core
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video discussing how problem based learning can help teachers with the curriculum shift to the Common Core. Understand how the big ideas within the common core can be fulfilled with PBL....
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: A School Wide Performance Assessment System
[Free Registration/Login Required] Look into a school using a portfolio project to measure students success during their four years of a school using PBL. Site includes both an article and a video. Also learn how school-wide rubrics are...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Pbl Brings Authenticity to International Baccalaureate
[Free Registration/Login Required] A look into schools using project based learning integrated with the International Baccalaureate program. Website includes an article as well as video exploring this framework.
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Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: Mazer Tag
Inspired by a work site using a laser to measure in the water, this teacher decided to do a project-based learning lesson with students the required them building an obstacle course that they had to maneuver a laser beam around. Part of...
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Teach Thought: The Difference Between Projects and Project Based Learning
Presents a chart by Amy Mayer that explains the important differences between projects and PBL.
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Ohio State University: Cold Cases: Lessons in Historical Skills and Methods
Lessons using primary sources to figure out what happened in the past allows students to examine and perhaps crack the mysteries that swirl around Byrd and his expedition to Antarctica to this day. Primary sources are available on the...