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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
For K-12 teachers by Suzie Boss with John Larmer
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Out of the Gate: Teacher Education Program-District Partnerships for High-Quality PBL
Planning Tools, (Document)
Scaffold the knowledge & skills students needed for the project's major products & presentation.
Planning Tools, (Document)
The Project Overview form helps you plan your project by summarizing its key pieces on two pages.
Articles, (Research)
A useful introduction to PBL including summaries of research studies and PBL in Action.
Articles
How a city implemented PBL system-wide in its out-of-school time programs.
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This article distinguishes between PBL and lightweight "projects" and argues why PBL is essential.
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A guide to forming teams, helping them become effective, & using peer ratings to adjust grades.
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Ron Berger explains how his classroom culture helped students create high-quality products.
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This two-page article summarizes the alignment of PBL with Common Core & NextGen Science Standards.
Planning Tools, (Document)
Elementary math Project Design Overview & Student Learning Guide.
Articles, (Research)
PBL yields benefits for students, from deeper learning of academic content to increased motivation