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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.
Professional Doc
Other

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.
Article
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.
Article
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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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: How Acids Affect the Rate of Corrosion

For Students 6th - 8th
In this chemistry science fair project, students will investigate how pH levels affect the rate of a common form of corrosion, called rusting. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...
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Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: The 22nd California Mission

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Buck Institute

Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: Choose Your Own Adventure

For Students 3rd - 8th
"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.
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Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: Resilience Cafe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
PBLU offers an example of project-based learning where students parallel tales of resilience out of historical context to those exhibiting resilience within their communities or even their own homes. This idea developed out of...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Edmodo: Classroom Hub for Project Based Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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]
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: What Does It Take for a Project to Be Authentic?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An article discussing the four ways a project can be considered authentic within the project based learning framework. Article gives examples of projects that maybe completed in class and discusses their authenticity.
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Other

Youth Learn: An Introduction to Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Rutgers: c.o.o.l. Class: Earth Science Project: Create an Ocean Weather Forecast

For Students 9th - 10th
Want to learn how to forecast ocean weather? This c.o.o.l. project lists each of the steps in the scientific process, and has you work through each in this earth science based project.
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Other

Freeciv Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A strategy game where players choose a starting scenario and build an empire as they travel from the Stone Age to modern times. A single or multi-player game that can be played online, through email alerts, or downloaded. The game is...
Professional Doc
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Inquiry Based Learning: Inquiry in Action: In Classrooms

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Three sets of videos - ten in all - showing teachers using inquiry-based learning in real classrooms.
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Vroma Project

V Roma Project: Sample Plan of a Roman House

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is a guide to the Roman house or villa. Click on the various rooms of the Roman house to find out what they are and how they were used. The house used is based on one found in Pompeii. This page was created by Barbara F....
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Fear Factor: Using Pulse Rate to Measure Emotion

For Students 6th - 8th
Do you remember a situation when you heart pounded, your breath rate shot up, and your palms got cold and clammy? Fear does that to us. Here's a science project based on roller coaster rides to see if heart rate is an accurate...
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Other

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.
Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: How to Get High Quality Student Work in Pbl

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article and video addresses the ability of students to produce quality work which is a common concern of teachers with Project Based Learning. Learn how to guide students to create high quality...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Pbl Brings Authenticity to International Baccalaureate

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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.
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Edutopia

Edutopia: Urban Academy: Where Testing Is Anything but Standard

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Project-based assessments that give an indication of students' skills and competencies are a central part of this profiled school.
Article
Other

College Info Geek: 7 Project Management Apps to Keep Your Team Organized in 2020

For Students 9th - 10th
When you're working on a large project, to-do lists can fall short. There's simply too much going on and too many people involved. Instead, you need to use dedicated project management software. But how do you choose a project management...
Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Pairing Two Subjects in One Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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...
Website
Intel Corporation

Intel Education: Assessing Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource introduces some tools created by Intel for assessing projects and student progress in different ways.
Website
Intel Corporation

Intel Education: Assessing Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource introduces some tools created by Intel for assessing projects and student progress in different ways.

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