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PBS

Kqed: Mind Shift: How to Trigger Students' Inquiry Through Projects

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Other

Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: How to Launch the Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
PBLU provides a guide to implement a successful project-based learning opportunity for the classroom.
Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Ideas for Digital Citizenship Pbl Projects

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Explore ideas for project-based learning with a focus on digital citizenship skills.
Article
Intel Corporation

Intel Education: Benefits of Project Based Learning [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
Article
Intel Corporation

Benefits of Project Based Learning [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: How Acids Affect the Rate of Corrosion

For Students 6th - 8th
In this chemistry science fair project, students will investigate how pH levels affect the rate of a common form of corrosion, called rusting. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...
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Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: The 22nd California Mission

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Buck Institute

Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: Choose Your Own Adventure

For Students 3rd - 8th
"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.
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Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: Resilience Cafe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Edmodo: Classroom Hub for Project Based Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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]
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Other

Youth Learn: An Introduction to Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Freeciv Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A strategy game where players choose a starting scenario and build an empire as they travel from the Stone Age to modern times. A single or multi-player game that can be played online, through email alerts, or downloaded. The game is...
Handout
Vroma Project

V Roma Project: Sample Plan of a Roman House

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is a guide to the Roman house or villa. Click on the various rooms of the Roman house to find out what they are and how they were used. The house used is based on one found in Pompeii. This page was created by Barbara F....
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Fear Factor: Using Pulse Rate to Measure Emotion

For Students 6th - 8th
Do you remember a situation when you heart pounded, your breath rate shot up, and your palms got cold and clammy? Fear does that to us. Here's a science project based on roller coaster rides to see if heart rate is an accurate...
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Other

What Is Rubistar? How to Make Rubrics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This online tool is designed for teachers to create rubrics that correspond with project-based learning activities.
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Pbl Brings Authenticity to International Baccalaureate

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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.
Website
Edutopia

Edutopia: Urban Academy: Where Testing Is Anything but Standard

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Project-based assessments that give an indication of students' skills and competencies are a central part of this profiled school.
Article
Other

College Info Geek: 7 Project Management Apps to Keep Your Team Organized in 2020

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Pairing Two Subjects in One Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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...
Website
Intel Corporation

Intel Education: Assessing Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource introduces some tools created by Intel for assessing projects and student progress in different ways.
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Intel Corporation

Intel Education: Assessing Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource introduces some tools created by Intel for assessing projects and student progress in different ways.
Handout
Other

Edutopia: Six Tips for Brain Based Learning [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover the research behind Brain-Based Learning. This resource includes classroom projects and resources as well as a reading list.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Research Project: American Heroes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is designed to help students of all backgrounds learn to work together in groups to complete a research paper assignment. This is a collaborative based lesson plan that challenges students to work together to complete the...
Article
PBS

Kqed: Mind Shift: Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Read these eight quick suggestions you can use with your students to begin infusing inquiry-based learning into your instruction.

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