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Handout
Cengage Learning

Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.
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Unit Plan
University of California

Uc Davis: Welcome to Experiential Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive resourse offers an overiew, a tool box, and training modules featuring Experiential Learning.
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Unit Plan
University of California

Uc Davis: Welcome to Experiential Learning

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive resourse offers an overiew, a tool box, and training modules featuring Experiential Learning.
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Rubric for Rubrics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric describes a well-written rubric, and how a rubric is created and used with students. It is clear, concise, and useful for helping educators avoid some common pitfalls. It can be used during...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Creativity & Innovation Rubric (Non Ccss)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Creativity & Innovation Rubric (Ccss Aligned)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Creativity & Innovation Rubric

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades K-2 in using creativity and innovation in a project, and can be used to assess their performance. This rubric is aligned with CCSS, but also can be...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Presentation Rubric Grades 9 12 (Non Ccss)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 9-12 in making effective presentations in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is not noted. It describes an...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: 9 12 Presentation Rubric (Ccss Aligned)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 9-12 in making effective presentations in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CC ELA standards for Speaking and...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Collaboration Rubric (Ccss Aligned)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in being effective collaborators in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is noted. It is clear,...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Critical Thinking Rubric (Non Ccss)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is not...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Critical Thinking Rubric (Ccss Aligned)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS in ELA is...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Critical Thinking Rubric (Non Ccss)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is not...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Critical Thinking Rubric (Ccss Aligned)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS in ELA is...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: K 2 Critical Thinking Rubric

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades K-2 in being effective critical thinkers in a project, and can be used to assess their performance. It is aligned with CCSS, but also can be used in...
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Graphic
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Pbl Essential Elements Checklist

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] The PBL Essential Elements Checklist can be used for a quick evaluation of a project's design, to see if it includes all the essential elements of rigorous, effective PBL. Use this tool before, during,...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Project Design Rubric

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric uses the 8 Essential Elements of PBL as criteria to evaluate projects. It describes three levels to assess the design of a project. Definitions and practical examples are used to clarify the...
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Article
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Systemwide Implementation of Pbl

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An eight-page article describing how Philadelphia implemented PBL system-wide in its out-of-school time (OST) programs. The authors begin with a short review of the scholarly literature on PBL and its...
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Article
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Pbl, Common Core and Next Gen Standards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This two-page article summarizes the alignment of PBL with Common Core standards for ELA and math, plus the Next Generation Science Standards. It is an excerpt from the BIE book, PBL for 21st Century...
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Pbl School Rubric

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps school and district leaders understand what it looks like to be a school with a fully developed PBL program. It describes what teachers, leaders, and the school as a whole do when they...
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Professional Doc
Other

Global Schoolhouse: Harnessing the Power of the Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Website
Other

Project Foundry: Project Based Learning Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Choosing an end product for PBL can be challenging due to the sheer number of possibilities. To encourage high-level products, it is beneficial to know students' interests and learning styles. The following product grid categorizes...
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: The 22nd California Mission

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Professional Doc
Other

Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: How to Launch the Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
PBLU provides a guide to implement a successful project-based learning opportunity for the classroom.