Project-Based Learning
BIE creates, gathers, and shares high-quality PBL instructional practices and products. Some of the products consist of blog posts, scholarly articles, videos, and other resources such as curriculum guidelines and suggestions. Most resources on this website are free.
Climate change is an important learning and advocacy initiative for today’s youth. This free PBL curriculum resource is an engaging and interactive curriculum tailored for grades K-12, focusing on climate change education.
In this engaging and influential program, youth will:
Learn about global climate and environmental problems, including the plastic trash crisis, pollution and its effects, the shortage of fresh water, and other health threats.
Discover how these problems affect their communities.
Explore how their personal choices affect the environment.
Create a proposal to solve a problem related to climate change or the environment in their community.
Present the proposal to experts.
Present the final version of their proposal to their peers at a culminating event
IDEAS Empowered by Youth® PBL Curricula is a pioneering approach to youth education, ideally tailored for today’s rapidly evolving, technologically-driven, and globally connected world. The Curriculum Fundamental Training prepares educators to present PBL curricula for students. By preparing educators to instill a culture of self-directed learning, it emphasizes crucial skills that today’s youth require: effective communication, collaborative learning, creativity, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence.
The Da Vinci school offers insight into their school and philosophy and is a great model for PBL education.
Hubpages offers English and language arts project plans and ideas for all grade levels
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.
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”.
The innovation unit in the UK offers ideas and their models on how to provide 21st century learning in schools.
This article highlights a teacher partnership model for professional development that’s effective in building technology, pedagogy, leadership skills, and collaboration practices that support teacher learning.
Intel gives information to teachers about how to incorporate technology into the classroom and find which technologies will work well in their classrooms.
The several video courses on this site provide the in-depth information needed to move into technology-based teaching.
The GIANT Room in collaboration with Lysol® has created a free digital-resource series of Minilab Science Kits accessible to educators, co-designed by teachers, families, and students. The HERE for Healthy Schools program is intended to promote healthy learning about microbes and germs to reduce school absenteeism.
Activities are designed for children in grades 1 and 2.