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Project Foundry: Project Based Learning Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Choosing an end product for PBL can be challenging due to the sheer number of possibilities. To encourage high-level products, it is beneficial to know students' interests and learning styles. The following product grid categorizes...
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NC State University

Meridian: Getting a Grip on Project Based Learning

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This resource looks at project-based learning. Students and teachers will benefit from some of the basic information presented in this article concerning the different aspects of project-based learning.
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Cengage Learning

Mission to Mars: Project Based Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and exercise, or...
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Edutopia: Project Based Learning Newsletter

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The articles and video segments in this newsletter allow one to see best practices in action. Content includes a video gallery, free instructional modules, and interactive case studies.
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Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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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Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: Cyrano's Funk

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out how students paralleled Cyrano de Bergerac to popular music hits during a project-based learning lesson in English class.
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Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: What Will They Think?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Graphing and making predictions go hand in hand during this real-world example of project-based learning.
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Ad lit.org: Tips on Starting a Community Service Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A successful community service project is the result of clear objectives, thoughtful planning and coordination, savvy use of resources, and follow-through.
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Kennesaw State University: Contextual Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This page is from Kennesaw State University's English department and offers teachers information on instructing through contextual, or project-based learning. Sample topics include teaching Spanish and research skills in context as a...
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Educational Methods: Tactile Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Tactile learners learn most effectively by being able to manipulate and physically touch objects. This article explores three different tactile activities that have been found to be useful in teaching different age groups of tactile...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: How to Use the "4 C's" Rubrics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
"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...
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Teach Hub: Teaching Strategies to Keep Students Engaged in Learning

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Through different teaching strategies like project-based learning and the flipped classroom, new techniques have changed the way teachers teach and learners learn. Here are a few more teaching strategies that are guaranteed to keep your...
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Christopher Columbus Awards

For Students 6th - 8th
The Christopher Columbus Awards is a national, community-based science and technology program for middle school students. The program challenges the students to work in teams, with an adult coach, to identify a problem in their community...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: From Here to Narnia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will provide eighth grade Language Arts students with an inquiry-based research project based on C. S. Lewis' classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The student will determine the author's purpose in writing this...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: We Can Dig It!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, third grade students will explore "fossils" by using chocolate chip cookies in an interactive fossil dig! Through creative problem-based learning that incorporates technology, students will work in collaborative groups...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Land Surveying Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gossip to Learn: A Juicy Approach to Research

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Though teachers might use this student-centered, technology-based, one or two-day research project to introduce any author, English 12 teachers may wish to use the lesson plan to jump-start a unit on British literature from the Romantic...
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Scholastic: Hands on Is Minds On

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the young scholars performing...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exploring the Past in 21st Century Ways

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Through this project-based instructional activity, students will do research on and create an oral presentation based on the life of an influential Famous American. Students will utilize various means to glean information, from online...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Do You Know How?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learners will write in a technical genre. "Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. The words and graphics of technical writing are meant to be practical:...
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Eduscapes: Themes & Literature Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides guidance in creating literature circles based on cross-curricular themes that will help to improve literacy. The site emphasizes both theory and practice, with lots of practical suggestions.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design Steps 5 and 6: Create and Test a Prototype

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the importance of creating and testing prototypes during the engineering design process. They start by building prototypes, which is a special type of model used to test new design ideas. Students gain experience...
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Try Engineering: Biomimicry in Engineering

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the concept of Biomimicry and students learn how engineers have incorporated structures and methods from the living world in products and solutions for all industries. Students then work in teams to develop a...

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