Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Managing Projects in Middle and High Schools
[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...
Other
Natomas High School: Design Principles: Proximity
A review of the principle of proximity as it applies to visual communication. Ends with a poster project lesson that underscores proximity and related concepts.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Science Fair Project Idea
Great science fair project ideas! Learn how to ask a testable question and choose from elementary, middle school, or high school science fair project ideas. View examples of testable questions, and see what is changed, what stays the...
Illinois Institute of Technology
The Oyez Project: United States v. Lopez
Case information, recordings, etc. regarding the Supreme Court case, United States v. Lopez, which addresses the 1990 Guns Free School Zone Act. Alfonzo Lopez, a senior in a Texas high school, was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon...
Other
Science Fairs Homepage: Senior Projects
This resource from the Eastern Newfoundland Science Fairs Council provides really substantial projects for senior High School students. These are online topics, six areas, with about 10-20 topics per area.
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Pbl School Rubric
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps school and district leaders understand what it looks like to be a school with a fully developed PBL program. It describes what teachers, leaders, and the school as a whole do when they...
Other
Thurston High School: Tundra Project
High school student site that describes and illustrates the tundra biome with such topics as climate, location, vegetation, health issues, and animals.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Boston Public Schools Capstone Project
The (Boston Public Schools) Capstone Project is an opportunity for students to engage in rigorous project-based learning. It is an opportunity for our students to develop skills to be life, career, and college-ready in a culturally...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: School Attendance Campaign
Mrs. O leads students through a lesson encouraging critical thinking and research to increase attendance in schools in an effort to decrease the rate of students dropping out.
Other
Northern Valley High School: A Project on Youth Gangs
Students will explore the dangers gangs pose to themselves and their school communities in this WebQuest. Students will research youth gangs and create media campaigns for middle school students to persuade them to stay out of gangs.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Arizona Mesa: Problem Solving Lesson Plans [Pdf]
Website includes lesson plans for high school problem-solving projects. Lesson plans are very detailed and include introduction to activity, timeline, and closure activity. Also included are student handouts. This website also contains a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Designing a Robotic Surgical Device
Student teams create laparoscopic surgical robots designed to reduce the invasiveness of diagnosing endometriosis and investigate how the disease forms and spreads. Using a synthetic abdominal cavity simulator, students test and iterate...
Other
Outside My Window
Students at Evergreeen Valley High school in San Jose, CA invite others to send them photographs taken outside their windows to promote unity and friendship around the world.
Other
School Journalism: Basic Interviewing and Reporting
Need a way to start off your journalism class for the year? This class period unit for High School Journalism can start you off on the right foot.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson Plan: Arabic Poetry
This online lesson plan introduces information about the Arabic poetic art form known as the ghazal. It includes Educational Objectives, classroom activities and projects, examples, and a list of the relevant national educational standards.
Brown University
The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968
Memories of 1968 are collected via interviews conducted by high school students. Important issues during that time include civil rights, Vietnam, the politics of the time and women's rights. There are transcripts of interviews and key...
Other
Tree New Mexico
This site is operated by high school students devoted to populating New Mexico with trees and educating youth and adults about trees. Includes, learning activities, games, contests, and news about the organization.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Are You Wearing?
Young scholars will use a digital camera to take pictures that will be used to create a multimedia project that illustrates the appropriate and inappropriate dress code for a high school.
Other
Primary Research Through the History of Beverly
At Beverly High School in Massachusetts, students learn history through their own primary research on local history topics. This article and links from it explain how it's done.
Other
L in C Online: Three Little Pigs
An energy transfer project for junior high school students is presented and described. Takes the form of a teacher lesson plan. Students may be able to extract some ideas for a project or experiment.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Land and People: Finding a Balance
Environmental study project engages high school students in studying earth science resource issues. The project focuses on the interaction between people and the environment in three regions of the United States: Cape Cod, Los Angeles,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science studies. The activities are designed to enhance an existing curriculum and include online assessments. They can...
Other
The Stories of the People of Bland County
A high school project in which the students collected the oral histories of people living in Bland County, Virginia which is located in the western part of the state. The stories focus on the family histories.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Clock Tower
This project resulted from the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher (pre-engineering), Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life...