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Museum Exhibit Graphic
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.
Picture Book Graphic
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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.
Pie Chart Graphic
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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.
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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.
Teacher and student discussing their goal setting
Other Videos
This video features high school students reflect on their experience of Project Based Learning and also practiced the 21st century competencies needed for personal and workplace success.
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High school students reflect on their experience of Project Based Learning.
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Student Handouts
This document helps students organize their presentations with a specific audience in mind.
Thumbnail of this downloadable resource called Using Roles in Teams
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?
Thumbnail of this downloadable resource called Revisiting Need to Knows
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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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.
This is a thumbnail image of the Gold Standard PBL: Project Based Teaching Practices .pdf attachment
Articles
Overview of BIE's new model for teaching in a Project Based Learning environment.
Articles
A guide to forming teams, helping them become effective, & using peer ratings to adjust grades.
Articles
This article distinguishes between PBL and lightweight "projects" and argues why PBL is essential.
Project Videos
Students present their finished designs to a group of school architects, planners, & designers.
This video features kindergarten student presentations of projects on stray animals.
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Kindergarten students - mostly English learners - present their stray animals project.
This video has been translated into PORTUGUESE to explain project based learning
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A short animated video that explains in clear language the essential elements of PBL.
This video features High Tech Middle Media Arts students and staff collaborate with French filmmakers to create animation shorts about the Mexico and U.S. border.
Project Videos
Middle school arts project: animated shorts about the Mexico and U.S. border.
This video features Marin School of Arts and Technology students evaluating the health of their local watershed.
Project Videos
Students evaluate the health of their local watershed by studying a small creek.