Project-Based Learning
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A general overview of what PBL is and a short history of PBL.
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.
Sponsored by the Buck Institute for Education, they offer resources concerning project-based and problem-based learning. From definitions to designs, to PBL current events, this site can get you started with all you need to know to engage your classroom.
PBL online offers a range of PBL resources for teaching online and designing your own projects along with teacher handbooks.
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
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”.
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.
Hubpages offers social studies, geography, and civics project ideas
Hubpages offers engaging math project ideas for all grade levels
Hubpages offers science lesson plans and project ideas for all grade levels
Hubpages offers English and language arts project plans and ideas for all grade levels