Curated OER
The Sociological Detective
Students conduct research in order to debate a topic. In this sociology lesson plan, students conduct research regarding 4 types of schools. Students prepare to debate a topic of their choice.
Curated OER
Bar Charts and Pictographs: How can they help us?
First graders work with manipulatives to solve various math problems by using concrete objects to solve a list of problems . They create and evaluate bar graphs and write a statement about the information on their bar graph.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom: Inquiry Based Learning
One of eleven workshops presented by Concept to Classroom, this workshop on Inquiry-based Learning takes you through four major steps (explanation, demonstration, exploration, and implementation) to learn about it, then put it into...
Other
Global Schoolhouse: Harnessing the Power of the Web
This online tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and in particular for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with...
Other
Buck Institute for Education: Designing Your Project
Step through each of the five design principles presented here to learn how to design effective, engaging projects, and how to manage the process successfully. There are tools for creation, management, and assessment of projects...
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: The 22nd California Mission
When fourth graders are required to learn their state history, this California teacher takes it across the curriculum implementing a project-based learning unit highlighting the Spanish Mission Era of California in the 18th and 19th...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] If you are interested in learning to develop project-based learning in your classroom, this BIE resource list give you most of the information you need, from background to webinars, and from planning...
PBS
Kqed: Mind Shift: 5 Tools to Help Students Learn How to Learn
Taken together these five tools, which are deceptively simple, can give students the experience of deeper inquiry and insight into their own learning habits and preferences.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Problem Based Learning (Pbl) and Socratic Questioning
Part of a teacher workshop called "Making Civics Real," this section explains how to use questioning, especially Socratic questioning, in problem-based learning. For those not used to employing the Socratic method, the "Taxonomy of...
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Instructional Organizer: A Guide to Developing Project Based Learning Units
By following the guidelines provided by moving through the organizational links on this page, teachers can learn how to create, facilitate, and assess successful project-based learning units for any grade level.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Chemical Reactions & Engineering Design
This instructional activity begins with a story about rescuing reptile eggs from a new construction site. Using the story as motivation, students are presented with an engineering design challenge: Build a portable device which can warm,...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides and Strategies: Problem Based Learning
Learn both the rationale for problem-based learning, and a simple model of the steps a student can follow to address and solve a problem through logical, critical thinking.
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University: Experiential Learning [Pdf]
This resource provides a scholarly report providing research-based findings on the experiential learning process and application.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How I Teach Kids to Love Science
Science class, how do you feel about it? How would you feel if you were allowed to choose any local, remote, or global environmental problem to fix? What would you choose? How would you go about fixing it? Cesar Harada's science class...
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesta Duluth: Experiential Learning Theory [Pdf]
This researched resource provides a holistic view of experiential learning theory. The document includes previous research and new directions of this instructional model. The document is used in a University of Minnesota education...
Other
Collaborize Classroom: What Is "Challenge Based Learning"?
This resource offers a challenge-based learning template and step by step procedures how to build a challenge-based lesson.
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Western Michigan University: What Is Experiential Learning? [Pdf]
A chapter from an e-book provides strategies to infuse experiential learning within a classroom.
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...
FNO Press
From Now On: A Questioning Toolkit
What exactly is a "questioning tool kit"? This resource provides techniques for asking essential questions, hypothetical questions, telling questions, planning questions and organizing questions.
Other
Developing Project Based Learning Units: Driving Questions
Learn how to use open-ended and directed questions to drive the development of driving questions for project-based learning to take place. This includes several charts and checklists to help teachers develop good driving questions or to...
Other
Driving Questions: Students Uncovering Amazing Content Through Inquiry
This blog post provides background on the concept of Driving Questions as a basis for Project-Based Learning and gives some direction for how to create them. The links at the end of the blog allow teachers to explore this technique more...
Other
Infed: David A. Kolb on Experiential Learning
This resource provides a visual chart as well as direct information concerning experiential learning.