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Planning Tools
This planning template can be used to design your next PBL project.
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Articles
Ron Berger explains how his classroom culture helped students create high-quality products.
Articles
Overview of the why and what of PBLWorks' new model for designing rigorous, engaging projects.
Planning Tools
Use this tool to plan for thoughtful collaboration with industry and community partners.
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Student Handouts
This document helps students think about what they did in the project and how well the project went.
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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.
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Student Handouts
This form may be used during a project to have students report on what their team accomplished on a particular day or week.
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Student Handouts
This form may be used by students to track progress on a project and have them report on what they individually accomplished on a particular day or week.
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Student Handouts
This documents helps capture thoughtful feedback from the audience for student presentations.
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Student Handouts
May be filled in by project team members to record agreements about how they will work together.
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Student Handouts
This contract can be used by a project team to agree upon how they will work together.
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Student Handouts
This checklist helps teachers prepare for project presentations before they start.
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Strategy Guides
Whether your students exhibit their work products during the course of the project, at the end, or both, you’ll want to have many sets of eyes on their public products. An audience feedback form is a tool used to actively engage the audience at an exhibition.
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Strategy Guides
A rubric is more than a tool to assess final products. It is a tool that should be leveraged throughout the project to support multiple kinds of learning opportunities for your students. This guide offers strategies for using rubrics to aid learning at each phase of a project.
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Strategy Guides
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.
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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.
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Student Handouts
This document helps students organize their presentations with a specific audience in mind.
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Strategy Guides
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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Strategy Guides
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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Strategy Guides
Effective teams require us to think carefully about the kind of work students will be doing throughout the project. What outcomes are most important? How can we utilize teams so students effectively reach those outcomes?