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Strategy Guides
Need to Knows
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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Creating and Using Team Contracts
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.
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Planning Tools
Project Planner
This planning template can be used to design your next PBL project.
Planning Tools
Community Partner Outreach Planner
Use this tool to plan for thoughtful collaboration with industry and community partners.
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English Learner Scaffolds for PBL
The EL Scaffolds for PBL document provides strategies & recommendations to support English Learners.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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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.
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Driving Question Tubric 2.0
Frame the DQ's initial words, person or entity, action or challenge, and audience/purpose.
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Storyboard
This planning document is designed to help you list the key project milestones, to represent significant moments or stages.
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Project Assessment Map
Plan how to use formative assessment in a project to be sure students are learning content and building 21st century competencies
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Project Path
Use the Project Path to guide you through every phase of your project.