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Instructional Organizer: A Guide to Developing Project Based Learning Units

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
By following the guidelines provided by moving through the organizational links on this page, teachers can learn how to create, facilitate, and assess successful project-based learning units for any grade level.
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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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Edutopia

Edutopia: Innovative Practice: 5 Strategies for the Early Learning Classroom

For Teachers K - 1st
Project- and play-based learning are essential in the early grades to develop creative learning dispositions during the brain's most active period of synaptic growth. Here are five strategies that can be implemented in early learning...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: School Project Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Perfect for enrichment purposes, this site includes a list of 62 ideas for projects. Some suggested projects contain additional links that will aid with the executing of them.
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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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Edutopia

Edutopia: Room to Learn: Mystery Science Theatre

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Read and see examples of how one physics teacher turns his classroom into a student-centered, project-based and fun place to be.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Character Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is loaded with resources for developing and maintaining a character education program in your school, class or team. It includes information on service learning, ethics in the workplace and leading class discussions as well as...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Early American Explorers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this project-based activity, students will become detectives looking for information about early American explorers. Students will have the opportunity to navigate the Internet to locate important facts about these explorers....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Choosing a Pyramid Site

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Working in engineering project teams, students evaluate sites for the construction of a pyramid. They base their decision on site features as provided by a surveyor's report; distance from the quarry, river and palace; and other factors...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Attack of the Killer Cabbage Clones

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you like to watch outdated science fiction and cheesy horror movies? Many fictional tales of cloned organisms have been created based upon the scientific method for cloning animals or plants. In the real world, the cloning of plants...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Build Your Own Insect Trap

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this hands-on activity students design a trap to catch a fictional insect. They must build the trap based on things they learn about the insect.
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: The Common Core Is the "What." Pbl Is the "How."

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article discussing how the Common Core is the what and PBL is the how!
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineer a Sneaker

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The goal is for students to understand the basics of engineering that go into the design of a sneaker. The bottom or sole of a sneaker provides support, cushioning, and traction. In addition the sole is flexible and can have some fashion...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Tour of Birmingham: Web Quest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This inquiry-based project will provide opportunities for students to learn about the history of Birmingham. Students will discover the variety tourist attractions in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What in the World Is Wrong With Sammy?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This lesson provides learners with the technology-based project researching Guinea Pigs. The trade book, Sammy, the Classroom Guinea Pig, will be used to make predictions.The students will use the facts from their research to create a...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Storytelling: Imagineering in a Box

For Students 9th - 10th
A landing page for a new course in storytelling that is presented by Disney designers through Khan Academy's site. They share how they design theme parks and rides. Students will design a theme park of their own.

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