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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Building an Effective I Pad Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Understand how personal devices can provide an environment for individualized learning. Summarize best practices when using personal devices to integrate project-based learning and other collaborative activities.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour Student Reporting Labs Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Student Reporting Labs (SRL) creates transformative educational experiences through video journalism that inspire youth to find their voice and engage with their communities. SRL lesson plans, assignment prompts and instruction tools...
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Bird Adaptations

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will engage in a project-based learning lesson to discover how beak adaptations affect what birds eat.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Final Presentation

For Students 9th - 10th
Students plan to present their water purification system at the end of a project-based learning exercise.
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Professional Doc
Other

Eduscapes: Teacher Tap: Project, Problem, and Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What is problem, project, and inquiry based learning? This comprehensive website is full of resources to help you learn more about these teaching styles and strategies.
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Lesson Plan
Cengage Learning

Investigating Social Change: Midwest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the evolution of the Midwest region of the United States. Students and teachers will gain a different perspective about the Midwest when they check out this site.
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Professional Doc
Other

Youth Learn: An Introduction to Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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Professional Doc
FNO Press

From Now On: A Questioning Toolkit

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What exactly is a "questioning tool kit"? This resource provides techniques for asking essential questions, hypothetical questions, telling questions, planning questions and organizing questions.
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Driving Question Tubric 2.0

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Driving Question Tubric 2.0 helps with practice in writing Driving Questions by framing initial words, person or entity, action or challenge, and audience/purpose. It is a fun, hands-on way to...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Project Assessment Map

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Project Assessment Map helps you plan how you will use formative assessments in a project, to be sure students are learning content and building 21st century competencies.
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Managing Projects

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Managing Projects in Middle and High Schools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Managing Your Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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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Handout
Other

Collaborize Classroom: What Is "Challenge Based Learning"?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource offers a challenge-based learning template and step by step procedures how to build a challenge-based lesson.
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Website
Other

Donors Choose: Teachers Ask, You Choose, Students Learn

For Teachers 9th - 10th
At the not-for-profit DonorsChoose website, teachers submit project proposals for materials and services that their students need and concerned individuals step forward to fund them in whole or in part. Funded projects illustrate the...
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: What Does It Mean to Align Pbl With Common Core?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: The Role of Pbl in Making the Shift to Common Core

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: A School Wide Performance Assessment System

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Tips on Starting a Community Service Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A successful community service project is the result of clear objectives, thoughtful planning and coordination, savvy use of resources, and follow-through.
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Students and Audience in Project Assessment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Teach and Assess Creativity and Innovation in Pbl

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Is Pbl Effective for Advanced Placement Courses?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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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Handout
Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University: Experiential Learning [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource provides a scholarly report providing research-based findings on the experiential learning process and application.
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Handout
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesta Duluth: Experiential Learning Theory [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...

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