Amor Sciendi
The Iliad: Visualizing the Complexities of War
The Iliad is the greatest war story ever told, and my middle school class tried to figure out why using data analysis.
Sprouts Learning
Project-Based Learning: How It Works and Why It’s So Effective
Project Based Learning, in short PBL, is a powerful way to learn new things and remember them for a long time. It describes a form of learning that happens as a result of solving actual problems.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Discovering Medicines, Using Robots and Computers
Students meet a scientist who created software that looks at images of cells and determines which images show cells that have responded to potential medicines. Students will learn about how this technology is currently enabling research...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This video lesson introduces students to the worlds of engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. It seeks to encourage students to see the world with a fresh perspective for innovation through interactive classroom brainstorming...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: Te Ao Whanui Local Participation, Global Confidence
In this curriculum conversation Anne Sturgess discusses a social studies programme at Edgecumbe College. She is joined by students who explain how Te Ao Whanui - local participation, global confidence, supported them to be autonomous...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: Inquiry Learning From Knowledge to Understanding
How do you use inquiry learning to move from knowledge to understanding? Vic Hygate, from Windsor School in Christchurch, explains how she carefully focuses her planning, then uses events and provocative statements to make inquiry...
Edutopia
Edutopia: Kindergarten: Five Year Olds Pilot Their Own Project Based Learning
With this video, learn how kindergarten students can become active participants in project-based learning. Nine minutes, 1 second.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Project Based Learning: Using Today's Tools to Study Yesterday's
This video describes how a group of fifth-grade students learned about historical tools through the use of their technology, research and writing skills. Includes a discussion of a project-based learning field trip. 10 minutes, 4 seconds
Other
Responsible Subversives Network: Born to Learn
Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how humans learn! Narrated by Damian Lewis.
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: Project Based Learning Explained
Check out this short video explaining project-based learning. [3:50]
Other
Ki Cubed: I Squared: A Different Way of Learning and Thinking
Imagine what students can accomplish in high school and beyond when they have been learning in a collaborative, real world, standards based environment throughout their elementary and middle school years! See what project-based learning...
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: 21st Century Skills Culture
Students at High Tech High in San Diego, California use creative thinking and collaborative work to connect the classroom with the real world while developing 21st Century skills in mixed ability teams.
Other
Youtube: Barbara Greenstone: Challenge Based Learning in a High School Classroom
This video provides an example of how students can identify a problem, work on resolutions to the issue and enjoy the benefits of having met a challenge. [2:52]
Other
Ki Cubed: Project/problem Based Learning in Elementary School
Hidden Hills School provides a YouTube video featuring project-based learning in practice, the reasons, the approach, and testimonials from students and parents. [5:31]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Khan Academy's Discovery Lab
We ran a hands-on, project-based learning summer program. Check out the highlights! [4:51]
Eduardo Teixeira
Inquiry Based Learning
Explains what inquiry-based learning is, how it begins with a question, develops into a hypothesis, then an experimental design which explores the question. Students collect and record data, which they critically analyze, and draw a...
Other
Inquiry Learning
Explains what inquiry learning is, why it is important, how it benefits students, ways teachers can facilitate it, and examples of inquiry-based activities.
Other
Inquiry Based Learning
Discover a history lesson with John Dewey while exploring inquiry learning.