Project-Based Learning
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This article describes the process of students’ learning and the depth of their cognitive engagement— rather than the resulting product—that distinguishes projects from busywork. The hypothetical project described in this article was inspired by a real project, “Media Saves the Beach,” carried out by students at High Tech High in San Diego, California. This is a great resource because it provides realistic examples for what essentials are necessary in order to create a Project Based Learning system.
The several video courses on this site provide the in-depth information needed to move into technology-based teaching.
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Intel gives information to teachers about how to incorporate technology into the classroom and find which technologies will work well in their classrooms.
High Tech High teachers document the success of their project-based learning efforts to share with other educators. These in-depth projects can be recreated in your classroom or can be used as a launching pad for projects of your own designs.
A general overview of what PBL is and a short history of PBL.
Hubpages offers social studies, geography, and civics project ideas
West Virginia department of education produced management tools that are used in the Project Based Learning plans on Teach 21. You can find rubrics, checklists, task management charts, learning logs and other documents that will help your PBL planning and delivery.
Houghton Mifflin offers a brief resource for teachers, with in-depth discussion of project-based learning, including an overview of the issues surrounding it, the student’s role in the process and several projects to get you started, including the popular “egg drop” experiment and “Mission to Mars”.
Great Schools offers the pros and cons of using PLB in order to get a greater scope of
what it really means to use PLB in the classroom