PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Inquiry Based Learning: Inquiry in Action: In Classrooms
Three sets of videos - ten in all - showing teachers using inquiry-based learning in real classrooms.
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Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning
Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.
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Youth Learn: The Key to Engaging Students in Learning: Asking Good Questions
Explanation of several types of questions, and suggestions for helping students use good questioning techniques in inquiry-based learning. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic
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.
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...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Hands on Is Minds On
As students put projects together, create crafts, or use familiar materials in new ways, they're constructing meaning. Students love to touch and manipulate materials and this can activate kids' brains. This article gives tips for...
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Medium: Why Every Kindergarten and First Grade School Day Should Begin With...
This article was written to validate and be a voice for like-minded educators and families who want their children to have more time during the school day for inquiry and imaginative play. This article includes a list of articles, blogs,...
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...
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: 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: 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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts Through Web Based Inquiry
Contains plans for six 50-minute lessons where students create internet scavenger hunts in order to learn about the effects of the war on certain groups. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Pairing Two Subjects in One Project
[Free Registration/Login Required] Make learning more meaningful for your students by creating integrated curriculum project with your colleagues. This article focuses on how integrated curriculum projects benefit the students in a PBL...
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: A Medical Mystery
Young scholars are immersed in an online environment that challenges them to solve the medical mystery: "What's Wrong with M'Kenna?" This resource includes the complete middle school science curriculum unit, a teacher's guide, and an...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Relative Dating Using "The Block"
This lesson involves an innovative strategy for introducing the concept of relative dating using a block of wood that has been painted, damaged, and nailed. The task for learners is to analyze the order in which these events happened and...
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Cold Cases: Lessons in Historical Skills and Methods
Lessons using primary sources to figure out what happened in the past allows students to examine and perhaps crack the mysteries that swirl around Byrd and his expedition to Antarctica to this day. Primary sources are available on the...
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College Info Geek: 7 Project Management Apps to Keep Your Team Organized in 2020
When you're working on a large project, to-do lists can fall short. There's simply too much going on and too many people involved. Instead, you need to use dedicated project management software. But how do you choose a project management...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Materials and Minerals
Seven hands-on lessons module that allows students to learn about materials and minerals. These inquiry-based explorations investigate properties of materials, where mineral deposits can be found, how deposits are formed, how minerals...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: The Best Unit I've Ever Taught
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article outlining a PBL unit taught in an eighth grade history class. The educator discusses how the unit was developed by accident and how he drew on the students interest to make it successful!
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Abundant Area
This is an inquiry and technology-based activity that allows students to discover the relationship between perimeter and area. Students apply problem-solving strategies to solve the real-life problem posed in this activity. This activity...
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