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Teaching Practice Videos
The Buck Institute has created this short video to help explain the Project Based Teaching Practices in our model for Gold Standard PBL.
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Planning Tools
The EL Scaffolds for PBL document provides strategies & recommendations to support English Learners.
Using Models of Quality Work
Strategy Guides
Using models of quality work is a powerful strategy for Gold Standard Project Based Learning.
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Planning Tools
This planning template can be used to design your next PBL project.
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Articles
Ron Berger explains how his classroom culture helped students create high-quality products.
Articles
Overview of the why and what of PBLWorks' new model for designing rigorous, engaging projects.
Planning Tools
Use this tool to plan for thoughtful collaboration with industry and community partners.
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Strategy Guides
Effective preparation for presentations helps students build project management, collaboration, and communication skills and ensures that their presentations are high-quality and impactful.
Project Videos
In this 8th grade ELA project, students in San Gabriel, California work together to develop a quality-controlled fan fiction website for other middle schoolers.
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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.
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Rubrics
2021 Research-Based Collaboration Rubrics
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Rubrics
2021 Research-Based Critical Thinking Rubrics
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Rubrics
2021 Research-Based Complex Communication Rubrics
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Rubrics
2021 Research-Based Self-Directed Learning Rubrics
Rubrics
2022 Research-Based Creativity Rubrics
Teacher Sara Lev leads her transitional kindergarten students in an Interdisciplinary project in this video
Project Videos
PBLWorks Project Videos 2018: Transitional Kindergarten - Interdisciplinary.
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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.
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Strategy Guides
In Project Based Learning, students should have regular opportunities to reflect, individually and with others, on both what and how they are learning. This guide provides a framework and strategies for supporting reflection on learning throughout a project.
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Strategy Guides
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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Strategy Guides
A learning log is a tool that students use during the project to keep track of their questions and learning generated through their research. This guide offers strategies for teaching students to use learning logs to support inquiry throughout a project.