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.

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.

[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]

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...

PBLU provides a guide to implement a successful project-based learning opportunity for the classroom.

"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.

Explore ideas for project-based learning with a focus on digital citizenship skills.

This online tool is designed for teachers to create rubrics that correspond with project-based learning activities.

[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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A video focusing on an "aha" moment a physics teacher had in using project based learning in his classroom. [2:06]

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.

Summarizes what is known about learning from research on the brain and suggests related strategies to use in the classroom. Also discusses the main techniques and strategies that are in wide use today including, for example,...

Students plan to present their water purification system at the end of a project-based learning exercise.

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...

[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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video discussing how problem based learning can help teachers with the curriculum shift to the Common Core. Understand how the big ideas within the common core can be fulfilled with PBL....

[Free Registration/Login Required] A video and an article discussing how critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity in PBL can lead to a positive culture in the school. [32:12]

Looking for an alternative point of view on educational technology? Use this informative website focusing on a book called "The Flickering Mind,"-a new and controversial book which argues that computers have done far more harm than good...

Students become marine biologists, and their goal is to characterize the biological communities that live on or near the seamount in the Monterey Bay area. There, they must identify a mystery mollusk.

[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...

[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!

This resource provides a visual chart as well as direct information concerning experiential learning.

Students design a health and human body exhibit for a local museum by researching topics such as infectious diseases across history, anatomy, physiology, health, and nutrition. Students visited four museums across the country to...