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Strategy Guides

Forming Project Teams

As students work together on projects, they learn valuable skills for collaborating, managing group dynamics and conflict, and building on one another’s strengths.

Strategy Guides

Audience Feedback Form

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.

Strategy Guides

Using Rubrics

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.

Strategy Guides

Using Roles in Teams

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?

Strategy Guides

Revisiting Need to Knows

The need to know questions that initiated inquiry at the beginning of the project are central to students’ learning as they follow the project path. Need to know questions are revisited throughout the project in order to track learning and support sustained inquiry.

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Project Based Learning & Student Achievement

Short 2018 research brief by Buck Institute with evidence of PBL's impact on student learning in cor

Student Handouts

Presentation Day Checklist

This checklist helps teachers prepare for project presentations before they start.

Student Handouts

Project Team Contract Template

May be filled in by project team members to record agreements about how they will work together.

Articles, (Research)

Skills for the Future

A useful introduction to PBL including summaries of research studies and PBL in Action.

Articles, (Research)

Research Summary on the Benefits of PBL

PBL yields benefits for students, from deeper learning of academic content to increased motivation

Student Handouts

Project Work Report: Individual

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.