Project Based Learning Lesson Plans

Pupils write a Rap song that demonstrates their mastery of the vocabulary and definitions of scientific words from their textbook. They word process the Rap and perform it.

Young scholars plan a school event using desktop publication computer software. They collect and analyze real-life documents for actual events, and create a portfolio of school event documents that are demonstrated and presented to the class.

Pupils evaluate directions by participating in a maze activity. In this labyrinth instructional activity, students identify the history of mazes and labyrinths and utilize Google Earth to examine real life mazes. Pupils create their own mazes on-line and have classmates solve them.

Project based learning is one of the best ways to engage students in an active and memorable way. Students will brainstorm and define basic economic principals, create a fictitious business, and showcase their company as a commercial, PowerPoint, or in a brochure. This lesson plan is fantastic and includes printable materials, extensions, standards, and the full 10 day procedure.

Fifth graders inquire and research using secondary and primary resources.  In this leadership traits unit, 5th graders investigate information about Harry S. Truman and present on his early life and leadership abilities. Possible lesson ideas are suggested but not included.

Seventh graders participate in digital citizenship case studies involving intellectual property and copyright issues such as plagiarism, software installation, Web content and trademarks. They discuss ethical and unethical decisions about the case studies in the context of their homes and schools.

Students create a list of random acts of kindness and perform acts of kindness during a kindness week. In this kindness lesson, students participate in a project for being kind to others. Each grade chooses their kindness project.  Students write about their acts of kindness.  Students share their acts of kindness. Each student who receives an act of kindness is asked to show kindness to someone else.

Students examine the voting data for the state they where they live.  In this voting lesson, students research possible ways to increase the number of people that vote then create a campaign to share an idea of their own with the other students.

Students write about how they preserve memories to share with others. After reading an article, they discuss the role of quilts in society today. They design their own section of quilt that shows an important part of their lives and create it.

Students consider the accuracy of the Web sites they regularly use, then prepare for a formal debate on the reliability of Wikipedia and similar Web sites. For homework, they prepare note cards and practice delivering their orations.