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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Collaborize Classroom: What Is "Challenge Based Learning"?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource offers a challenge-based learning template and step by step procedures how to build a challenge-based lesson.
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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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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: How Did I Start My Very First Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video exploring the anatomy of a project. Get an insight into how a teacher developed and executed a project from beginning to end. Understand the steps they took while working through...
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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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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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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: School Project Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Perfect for enrichment purposes, this site includes a list of 62 ideas for projects. Some suggested projects contain additional links that will aid with the executing of them.
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Managing Projects

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Nervous about introducing a project or looking for a way to revamp the execution of a previously done project? This article and video shares some advice about project management from introduction to...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Sail a Boat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In the Curious George video Junky Monkey, George sees treasures where others see trash. He transforms his junk collection into a masterpiece- reusing and recycling items from the street. Will the mayor declare George and his friends the...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Is It Another "Aha" Moment for Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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]
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Edutopia

Edutopia: Room to Learn: Mystery Science Theatre

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Read and see examples of how one physics teacher turns his classroom into a student-centered, project-based and fun place to be.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Character Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is loaded with resources for developing and maintaining a character education program in your school, class or team. It includes information on service learning, ethics in the workplace and leading class discussions as well as...
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Infed: David A. Kolb on Experiential Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource provides a visual chart as well as direct information concerning experiential learning.
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Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Strategies and Research in Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Early American Explorers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this project-based lesson, students will become detectives looking for information about early American explorers. Students will have the opportunity to navigate the Internet to locate important facts about these explorers....
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Cabbage Chemistry

For Students 3rd - 5th
This experiment is for all the kids out there who love boiled cabbage. Even if you don't like cabbage, perhaps you will like this amazing color-changing liquid you can make with cabbage. You'll learn which solutions around your house can...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Research Project: American Heroes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is designed to help learners 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...
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We Are Teachers: What Is Genius Hour and How Can I Try It in My Classroom?

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Genius Hour is inquiry-based, student-directed learning. It gives students an opportunity to look at the big wide world around them and explore their own unique interests in a loosely structured, but supported way. This article gives...
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Pennsylvania State University

Penn State University: Embryology in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Choosing a Pyramid Site

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Working in engineering project teams, students evaluate sites for the construction of a pyramid. They base their decision on site features as provided by a surveyor's report; distance from the quarry, river and palace; and other factors...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Plath, Personification, and Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This project based activity will use Sylvia Plath's poem, "Mirror", to examine the use of personification and figurative language. The activity may also incorporate the use of technology to produce a multimedia project. This allows...

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