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Strategy Guides
Effective preparation for presentations helps students build project management, collaboration, and communication skills and ensures that their presentations are high-quality and impactful.
Strategy Guides
Using models of quality work is a powerful strategy for Gold Standard Project Based Learning.
Strategy Guides
Norms are the agreed upon rules that build a productive, self-driven, and respectful culture. These norms, especially when co-created with students, can serve as the “north star” or guiding philosophy for all that happens in a classroom.
Student Handouts
This contract can be used by a project team to agree upon how they will work together.
Student Handouts
This document helps students think about what they did in the project and how well the project went.
Strategy Guides
Helping all students (including English Language Learners) become fluent in the language of a project’s targeted content is an essential part of teaching in a PBL classroom.
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Throughout a project—particularly during the build knowledge and develop and critique phases—students are engaged in extended work time to complete project tasks.
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In designing projects, we strive to have students doing the work of the world. Inviting those who actually do that work in the world into your project can be extremely powerful.
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Exit tickets are brief formative assessments and/or reflection routines that students complete and submit at the end of a lesson or class period. This guide includes strategies for using exit tickets to support assessment and reflection within the context of PBL.
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A learning log is a tool that students use during the project to keep track of their questions and learning generated through their research. This guide offers strategies for teaching students to use learning logs to support inquiry throughout a project.
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In Project Based Learning, students should have regular opportunities to reflect, individually and with others, on both what and how they are learning. This guide provides a framework and strategies for supporting reflection on learning throughout a project.
Strategy Guides
At the beginning of the project, students are introduced to key content in an authentic context via a stimulus or hook, which in PBL we call an entry event.
Strategy Guides
The team contract is a document introduced at the start of each project that asks project teams to think through and agree on how students will individually contribute to the team, how the members will work together, and how problems will be solved when they arise.
PBL Spotlights
We asked National Faculty how PBL can enhance teaching and learning in a variety of disciplines. Here's what they had to say.
Planning Tools
Use this tool to plan for thoughtful collaboration with industry and community partners.
PBL Spotlights
We asked National Faculty how PBL can enhance teaching and learning in a variety of disciplines. Here's what they had to say.
Student Handouts
This document helps a team keep track of project tasks, who is responsible for them, and by when.
Product Toolkit
An idea talk (inclusive of TED Talks, PechaKuchas, Ignite Talks, and other formats) is a short, concise presentation about a focused idea using a structured format.
PBL Spotlights
We asked National Faculty how PBL can enhance teaching and learning in a variety of disciplines. Here's what they had to say.