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Pbl Works: Edmodo: Classroom Hub for Project Based Learning
[Free Registration/Login Required] A look at the use of the resource of Edmodo in PBL classrooms. Learn how the different features aid in managing a PBL environment. Site includes both an article and video. [46:58]
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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...
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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]
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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...
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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...
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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]
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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....
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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...
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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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Pbl Works: Stephen Ritz Kicks Off Pbl World
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article featuring Stephen Ritz and his innovative use of PBL in his science classroom. See how he relates his curriculum to urban farming.
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Pbl Works: We All Need to Lead 21st Century Learning
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article discussing the call for action to spread the word that "PBL is the how to get to the 'what' of 21st century learning."
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Pbl Works: The Best Unit I've Ever Taught
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article outlining a PBL unit taught in an eighth grade history class. The educator discusses how the unit was developed by accident and how he drew on the students interest to make it successful!
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Pbl Works: Is It Another "Aha" Moment for Education
[Free Registration/Login Required] A video focusing on an "aha" moment a physics teacher had in using project based learning in his classroom. [2:06]
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Pbl Works: Have You Seen the Nex Gen Science Standards?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article discussing how the Next Generation Science Standards is the what and PBL is the how!
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Pbl Works: How to Use the "4 C's" Rubrics
"Rubrics describe what good critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity & innovation look like in the context of Project Based Learning." The collection of rubrics does not evaluate content for a specific subject...
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Pbl Works: 21st Century Education and Pbl
[Free Registration/Login Required] A look into how the 21st century education vision can use PBL as an effective implementation strategy. This article discusses the points to how PBL helps fulfill the overview vision found in the 21st...
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Pbl Works: Pairing Two Subjects in One Project
[Free Registration/Login Required] Make learning more meaningful for your students by creating integrated curriculum project with your colleagues. This article focuses on how integrated curriculum projects benefit the students in a PBL...