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Type: Strategy Guides 
Exit tickets are brief formative assessments and/or reflection routines that students complete and submit at the end of a lesson or class period. This guide includes strategies for using exit tickets to support assessment and reflection within the context of PBL.
Type: Strategy Guides 
Throughout a project—particularly during the build knowledge and develop and critique phases—students are engaged in extended work time to complete project tasks.
Type: 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.
Type: Strategy Guides 
Critique protocols are structured processes that guide students in giving and receiving high quality feedback. This guide offers strategies for implementing peer critique protocols that enhance learning and improve the quality of student work.
Type: 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.
Type: Strategy Guides 
In designing projects, we strive to have students doing the work of the world. Inviting those who actually do that work in the world into your project can be extremely powerful.
Type: Strategy Guides 
Just as you encourage students to accept critique and revise their work, you should use critique processes to inform your revision of projects. This strategy guide offers guidance on how to request and use student feedback to refine your projects.
Type: Strategy Guides 
Norms are the agreed upon rules that build a productive, self-driven, and respectful culture. These norms, especially when co-created with students, can serve as the “north star” or guiding philosophy for all that happens in a classroom.
Type: 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.
Type: Strategy Guides 
Students conduct interviews as a part of many Project Based Learning experiences. In some cases, these interviews inform a design thinking process, in which students are working to identify the needs of a “client” or audience in order to inform a design, solution, or communication strategy.
Type: Articles 
This article distinguishes between PBL and lightweight "projects" and argues why PBL is essential.
Type: Rubrics
These rubrics describe what good critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity & innovation look like in the context of Project Based Learning.
Type: Model Project Videos 
Students evaluate the health of their local watershed by studying a small creek.
Type: Planning Tools 
This planning template can be used to design your next PBL project.
Type: Planning Tools 
The EL Scaffolds for PBL document provides strategies & recommendations to support English Learners.
Type: Rubrics 
Guide students in grades 3-5 in being effective critical thinkers in a project.
Type: Rubrics
Guide students in grades 6-12 in working well in teams in a project.
Type: Rubrics
Guide students in grades 6-8 in making effective presentations in a project.
Type: Rubrics
Guide students in grades 6-8 in making effective presentations in a project.