[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is not...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in being effective critical thinkers in various phases of a project, and can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS in ELA is...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades K-2 in being effective critical thinkers in a project, and can be used to assess their performance. It is aligned with CCSS, but also can be used in...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps school and district leaders understand what it looks like to be a school with a fully developed PBL program. It describes what teachers, leaders, and the school as a whole do when they...

Students get a whole new perspective of the world through images obtained from the International Space Station. Students can even request images to be taken through ISS EarthKAM. Activities and educator guides are provided.

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....

This site contains tools which support both students of all ages and their teachers in project-based learning. Content for educators includes methods for incorporating projects into lesson plans and the overall curriculum. Student...

This challenge has students using a zip line to guide a boat to move through the water for long distances. To help the students build a fast and steady boat this site contains a lesson plan as well as tips. Students can also document...

A guided inquiry that involves observation of the parts of a light bulb in a lab.

In this 9th grade physical science guided inquiry, students will work in pairs to discover the indicators of chemical reactions. Each pair of students is assigned either an exothermic or endothermic reaction. Based on their observations,...

In this activity, which is a discrepant event with guided inquiry, the teacher will go through the steps of boiling water with ice. Through the students telling and recording WHAT is happening, the teacher is showing the students what...

In this guided inquiry investigation, students examine conditions to see what affect these conditions have on evaporation rates.

For this guided inquiry demonstration, a person on rollerblades and a medicine ball are used to teach the concept of conservation of momentum. Various sorts of collisions are used to show how momentum is conserved within a system.

In this guided inquiry activity, students will see how we can obtain information about the atomic world by making macro-scale calculations. Students will also use dimensional analysis to manipulate their measurements to achieve the...

In this classroom guided inquiry instructional activity, students will become geologists. They will investigate rocks and the properties we can use to describe them. Students will observe, record, and reflect on their findings. They will...

A guided inquiry where students participate in the simulation of moon phases and eclipses.

A guided inquiry in which students test different physical properties, such as melting point or conductivity, to help them determine whether the compounds are ionic or molecular.

In this guided inquiry lab, students will investigate what type of soil let plants/grasses grow the best. Students will answer the question by conducting an experiment using five different soils found in our area, school soil, potting...

In this guided inquiry students will specify soil types by using various methods of determining soil textures and analyze them with a soil triangle. This activity is a laboratory investigation where students gather data on soil textures,...

Students make observations of a local river, and then formulate a question. Then, through guided inquiry, construct, conduct, and collect data on a question they wish to research. Students keep a field journal of their observations,...

The guided inquiry activity enables students to identify the five basic types of reactions - synthesis or composition, decomposition, combustion, single replacement and double replacement. Students will also begin to predict the products...

This is a guided inquiry field investigation in an urban setting. This investigation focuses on the identification of the rocks used on and in the buildings and other structures in downtown St. Paul, MN. The questions asked are based on...

Students will participate in a guided inquiry activity using manipulatives to learn how to balance chemical reactions. This activity was developed in cooperation with Michelle Holdbrooks at Thompson High School...