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Edutopia: Project Based Learning Newsletter
The articles and video segments in this newsletter allow one to see best practices in action. Content includes a video gallery, free instructional modules, and interactive case studies.
Intel Corporation
Intel Education: Benefits of Project Based Learning [Pdf]
This article gives a brief overview of project-based learning and its effectiveness as an instructional strategy as well as its potential to help develop 21st century skills. Requires Adobe Reader.
Intel Corporation
Benefits of Project Based Learning [Pdf]
This article gives a brief overview of project-based learning and its effectiveness as an instructional strategy as well as its potential to help develop 21st century skills. Requires Adobe Reader.
Cengage Learning
Mission to Mars: Project Based Learning
Young scholars will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Edmodo: Classroom Hub for Project Based Learning
[Free Registration/Login Required] A look at the use of the resource of Edmodo in PBL classrooms. Learn how the different features aid in managing a PBL environment. Site includes both an article and video. [46:58]
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
Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: Choose Your Own Adventure
"What makes people take a risk?" This probing question is the foundation for the example of a project-based learning activity. See what the teacher did with these fourth graders.
Buck Institute
Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: Cyrano's Funk
Check out how students paralleled Cyrano de Bergerac to popular music hits during a project-based learning lesson in English class.
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: Resilience Cafe
PBLU offers an example of project-based learning where students parallel tales of resilience out of historical context to those exhibiting resilience within their communities or even their own homes. This idea developed out of...
Buck Institute
Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: What Will They Think?
Graphing and making predictions go hand in hand during this real-world example of project-based learning.
Other
What Is Rubistar? How to Make Rubrics
This online tool is designed for teachers to create rubrics that correspond with project-based learning activities.
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: How to Get High Quality Student Work in Pbl
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article and video addresses the ability of students to produce quality work which is a common concern of teachers with Project Based Learning. Learn how to guide students to create high quality...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Pbl Brings Authenticity to International Baccalaureate
[Free Registration/Login Required] A look into schools using project based learning integrated with the International Baccalaureate program. Website includes an article as well as video exploring this framework.
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: What Does It Take for a Project to Be Authentic?
An article discussing the four ways a project can be considered authentic within the project based learning framework. Article gives examples of projects that maybe completed in class and discusses their authenticity.
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: How to Use the "4 C's" Rubrics
"Rubrics describe what good critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity & innovation look like in the context of Project Based Learning." The collection of rubrics does not evaluate content for a specific subject...
PBS
Kqed: Mind Shift: How to Trigger Students' Inquiry Through Projects
Project based learning helps students tap into their inquiry and curiosity. Use these five steps to help you develop meaningful student projects in your classroom.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: So You Want to Be President?
This project-based learning project extends classroom learning with a variety of multimedia tools to conduct an engaging election campaign for the Presidency. Students form political parties, write a platform, and conduct a campaign for...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Final Presentation
Students plan to present their water purification system at the end of a project-based learning exercise.
Other
Youth Learn: An Introduction to Inquiry Based Learning
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...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: A School Wide Performance Assessment System
[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...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: The Role of Pbl in Making the Shift to Common Core
[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....
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Teach and Assess Creativity and Innovation in Pbl
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...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Leading With the 4 C's to Build the 5th C: Culture
[Free Registration/Login Required] A video and an article discussing how critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity in PBL can lead to a positive culture in the school. [32:12]
Other
The Flickering Mind
Looking for an alternative point of view on educational technology? Use this informative website focusing on a book called "The Flickering Mind,"-a new and controversial book which argues that computers have done far more harm than good...
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