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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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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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American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: Color Changes With Acids and Bases

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity, students will learn how red cabbage can be used as an indicator of an acid or base by looking at its color changes.
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: How Did I Start My Very First Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video exploring the anatomy of a project. Get an insight into how a teacher developed and executed a project from beginning to end. Understand the steps they took while working through...
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Pennsylvania State University

Penn State University: Embryology in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.
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Reading Educator: Question Answer Relationships

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Based on the presumption that every teacher shares responsibility for teaching reading, this page offers a brief look at question-answer relationships, as well as suggestions for putting the strategy to use in the classroom.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Circles of Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an inquiry based cooperative learning unit that can be used in biology as a graduation exam review or in botany for a nine week project. The students will learn the life cycle of mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Escape to Freedom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will read Number the Stars by Lois Lowrey. This novel about World War II, the Holocaust, and heroism, provides the topic for an inquiry-based, interdisciplinary lesson. Students will utilize their skills in technology...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Primary Sources

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This is an interdisciplinary inquiry-based lesson that focuses on critical thinking. Students are introduced to the true story of the first Thanksgiving with the reading of a NCSS Notable Trade Book Thanksgiving: The True Story. Working...
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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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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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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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