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Strategy Guides
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
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
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
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
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.
(Document), (Research)
Short 2018 research brief by Buck Institute with evidence of PBL's impact on student learning in cor
Articles, (Research)
A useful introduction to PBL including summaries of research studies and PBL in Action.
Articles, (Research)
PBL yields benefits for students, from deeper learning of academic content to increased motivation
(Document), (Research)
A model for an online unit & sample projects
Articles, (Document), (Research)
Out of the Gate: Teacher Education Program-District Partnerships for High-Quality PBL
Articles, (Document), (Research)
BIE hires Dr. Brandon Wiley as new Chief Program Officer
Articles, (Document), (Research)
A publication from Getting Smart and BIE
Product Toolkit
A business plan is a document that provides an overview of an existing or new business, outlining its goals as well as the steps and strategies to be implemented in order to achieve those goals. Business plans are developed for both internal purposes and external audiences, such as a plan written…
Product Toolkit
A museum exhibit is a curated collection of artifacts arranged and displayed for viewers' education and/or enjoyment. Exhibits are typically organized around a particular topic or theme with items carefully selected and strategically presented in order to convey a story or message about the subject.
Product Toolkit
An infographic is a visual representation of data, information, or ideas using graphics (images, illustrations, charts, diagrams) and minimal text. Infographics are often used to present large data sets or explain complex concepts in a way that is digestible and memorable.
Product Toolkit
An interactive map is a digital map that enables the viewer to explore and engage with the information by panning around, zooming in and out, hovering over points of interest, and clicking on objects to learn more about them. An interactive tour involves placards, QR codes, or other media placed in…
Product Toolkit
A picture book is a book in which the illustrations are as important as – or more important than – the text in telling the story or conveying the message of the book.
(Document), (Research)
Review of research on project-based instruction Pre-K -12 (2000-2011) by Margaret Holm, Rivier College
(Document), (Research)
Widely-cited meta-analysis commissioned by Autodesk Foundation