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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.
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Short 2018 research brief by Buck Institute with evidence of PBL's impact on student learning in cor
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Students negotiate trade between two nations by analyzing data on production and specialization.
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Students help secure capital to fund research and development for a "school-based enterprise."
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Students are asked by the Secretary of Energy to help implement price-control legislation.
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Student advise an entrepreneur on how to set up production and for whom to produce.
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Students debate a list of possible entities that could operate on donated land.
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Students recommend to the school board which restaurants should be chosen for the campus food court.
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Students decide on the best location for transitional housing for the homeless.
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Students advise the leaders of a new nation on how to create a constitutional democracy.
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Students craft federal budget recommendations for their congressional representative.
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Students must decide how best to "market" a flawed local political candidate's campaign.
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Students debate whether to take a discrimination case headed to the Supreme Court.
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Students advise the U.S. president on fiscal and monetary policy during economic crisis.
Articles, (Research)
A useful introduction to PBL including summaries of research studies and PBL in Action.