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Criteria for Authentic Project Based Learning
Check out this site to view a comprehensive list of criteria for project-based learning. This simple list is the perfect resource for parents, teachers, and students.
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Project Living History [Pdf]
Inquiry research is self-directed and project-based on the grade-level curriculum. Students begin an area of inquiry research becoming a critical historian. Focusing on research writing involves reading and a digital search on Destiny...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The August Wilson Education Project
The WQED August Wilson Education Project offers resources to educators including a teaching guide, video clips from the documentary, interactive maps, a biographical timeline, webinars, contests for students, and much more. The goal of...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Pick This Project!
This lab will help you understand the physics of vibrating strings, and find out why the tone of an electric guitar changes when you switch between the different pickups. If playing guitars is a hobby of yours, this experiment makes an...
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Human Genome Project
An in-depth look at the human genome project and its scientific and social implications. Students work through interactive learning material, understanding the ethics involved in genetic studies. There is a suggested classroom activity...
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Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Early Engineering With Ready Jet Go!: Pbs Kids Self Paced Learning
With real-life materials and exciting tools to touch and explore, engineering activities are a natural draw for many young children. In this professional development experience with Ready, Jet, Go!, we'll look at teacher practices for...
Other
Quality Digest: Self Directed Work Teams: A Competitive Advantage
Article describes self-directed work teams as an innovative way to approach employee management. Designed around "whole" projects, these teams manage their own work and handle obstacles themselves, fostering independent thinking and a...
EL Education
El Education: Photographic Self Portraits
Students learn to translate conceptual thinking into photographs by creating self portraits with digital photography.
EL Education
El Education: Self Portraits
Students work through drafting process to create self-portraits that later become the covers of autobiographical books.
EL Education
El Education: Self Portrait Poster
Students create self-portraits which are then cut and pasted into one classroom collage.
EL Education
El Education: Pointillist Self Portraits
Students create self portraits from a digital image with a fine point marker.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Bees Use Drugs? Evidence of Self Medication
There has been documented evidence that honey bees increase their foraging of antibiotic plant resins when under stress from fungal pathogens. Could more access to certain plants provide some solutions for decreasing bee populations?
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know Characters
In this language development lesson using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy of analyzing...
Other
We Are Teachers: What Is Genius Hour and How Can I Try It in My Classroom?
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App Design
Learners work through an online tutorial on MIT's App Inventor to learn how to create Android applications. Using those skills, they create their own applications and use them to collect data from an Android device accelerometer and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer
In this project, students are challenged to answer the question "Is there a way to detect the presence of tumors that isn't as painful as mammography but more reliable and quantifiable than a breast-self exam or clinical breast-exams?"....
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Educator Voices: Grade 3 Research Skills Unit
Describes the process teachers went through to create a lesson unit where students first brainstormed what it means to do research, then were tasked with choosing a topic, researching it, and presenting on it several days later. The...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's Wrong With the Coordinates at the North Pole?
Students complete a self-guided exercise in worksheet format combined with Google Earth that helps them explore practical and observable differences between different projection and coordinate systems. The activity improves their skills...
Information Fluency
Imsa 21st Century Information Fluency (21 Cif) Portal
The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) to improve Internet search skills for the advancement of information literacy. The goal of this project is to help...
Information Fluency
Imsa 21st Century Information Fluency (21 Cif) Portal
The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) to improve Internet search skills for the advancement of information literacy. The goal of this project is to help...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Infinity and Beyond Magazine of Planets
This is a student led activity in which students have to accomplish the task of choosing the most entertaining way to relay written expository information. Art/self expression along with technology are utilized to develop a classroom...
Microsoft
Microsoft Education Virtual Tour: Batter Up!
This downloadable (2.7 MB Microsoft PowerPoint file) project helps young scholars apply their knowledge of fractions and decimals to the game of baseball. They compute batting averages and hitting percentages and participate in a...
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Meter My Educational Technology Evaluation Resources
This site provides a variety of educational technology evaluation resources focused on helping schools and districts measure the role technology plays in teaching and learning. It has a great collection of relevant information on...