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Resources that support use of PBL.
Updated on Sep 03, 15
Created on Jul 15, 10
Category: Schools & Education
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This article from Edutopia shares how a middle school teacher promotes collaboration among students through an integrated, project-based unit. It highlights the steps in the process and how her students form "learning groups" to collaborate.
Edutopia has an article that looks at teacher practice in successful PBL environments. The article focuses on: 1) Framing the Learning; 2) Idea Development; 3) Consultation and Revision; 4) Peer Feedback and Self-Evaluation; and 5) Presentation. There are links in each section for additional information.
Links to downloadable resources to support PBL.
Teacher explains why great driving questions are the most important factor (to him) in creating a good PBL project. Eight factors of good PBL: outline 8 factors of good project based learning (PBL):
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A Need to Know
A Driving Question
Student Voice and Choice
21st Century Skills
Inquiry and Innovation
Feedback and Revision
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A chart prepared by Ann Mayer that highlights the differences between “projects” and “project-based learning.”
Jenny Luca, a teacher in Australia, shares how she ventured into PBL while studying Romeo and Juliet. There are many helpful resources embedded in the lengthy post.
This article on MindShift highlights some student design projects and asks how these ideas could impact education. It’s really describing PBL experiences.
John Hardison shares some recommendations for maintaining a PBL environment and also shared 8 embedded video projects completed by his students in an American Literature class.
A PBL experience in which students research BYOT and make recommendations for policies, as well as address concerns about BYOT.
Edutoptia presents a new article written by teacher that shares how she transformed her classroom from “posters and presentations to problem-based experiences.”
Identifies tools that support a "socio-constructivist approach to project-based learning."
A wiki of resources (and links to additional resources) related to PBL.
PBL resources and ideas (by content area/grade level).
LiveBinder of resources about useful apps to support PBL (and instruction).
Yong Zhao discusses PBL.
In his fifth article in a series on PBL, Dr. Gary Stager shares the power of a good prompt.
Tech & Learning has assembled a collection of mega resource sites for multimedia that can be used for PBL & flipped classrooms as “an entry event, a tutorial, a basis for further discussion and inquiry, or a tool that measures student understanding.”
An article on the Buck Institute Website that talks about how PBL complements CCSS.
86 items | 16 visits
Resources that support use of PBL.
Updated on Sep 03, 15
Created on Jul 15, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: