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Main Course Not Dessert
This article distinguishes between PBL and lightweight "projects" and argues why PBL is essential.
Project Videos
Elementary Project: Courtyard Redesign
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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Katherine Smith School Kindergarten Presentations
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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Project Based Learning: Explained. (PORTUGUESE)
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.
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World Language Project: Other Side of the Line
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
Watershed Project: Overview
Students evaluate the health of their local watershed by studying a small creek.
This hand drawn image depicts students sitting in traditional rows.
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Project Based Learning: Explained
Essential elements of PBL, 21st century competencies, differences from traditional teaching.
This video showcases the use of PBL at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which organizes its program around the fields of architecture, construction, and engineering
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PBL at ACE Leadership High School
ACE Leadership HS uses architecture, construction, and engineering projects to motivate and teach.
Teachers at Aviation High School refine the driving question or design challenge to have the students figure out how to design an efficient wing structure in this video.
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Wing Project: Crafting a Driving Question
Refine the driving question or design challenge to have the students figure out how to design.
This video features teachers discussing learning outcomes, predict student reactions, and assess student requirements for the Wing Project at Aviation High School in Seattle.
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Wing Project: Begin with the End in Mind
Educators discuss learning outcomes, predict student reactions, and assess student requirements.
In this video, Napa New Technology High School teachers and students discuss the benefits of having an online portal for tracking students' learning experiences and teachers' feedback.
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21st Century Skills Assessment
Benefits of an online portal for tracking students' learning experiences and teachers' feedback.
A high school teacher uses strategies such as collaborative grouping, service learning, and interdisciplinary curriculum with her class of English Language Learners to improve English/native language fluency and critical thinking skills in this video
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PBL for ELL
A teacher uses strategies to improve English/native language fluency and critical thinking skills.
One teacher, in this video, explains how to teach academic language to English Learners so they can express their knowledge orally, in writing, and during presentations.
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PBL for English Learners
How to teach academic language to English Learners so they can express their knowledge.
Teacher-training coordinator David Grant describes how King Middle School in Portland, Maine combines project learning and technology to build effective, authentic learning experiences in this video.
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Framework for Project Learning Success
Combine project learning and technology to build effective, authentic learning experiences.
In this video, learn about one teaching team's process for developing an integrated forensic project that meets state standards of various subject areas' curriculum units.
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Designing Integrated Curriculum
Developing a project that meets state standards of various subject areas' curriculum units.
This video highlights a rubric in tube form called a Tubric which is a great collaborative tool to help your students create their own Driving Questions for their projects
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The Birth of the Tubric
A great collaborative tool to help teachers and students create Driving Questions.
A video example of the Tuning Protocol process that teachers use with teach other for giving and receiving feedback
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Tuning Protocol Overview
A video example of the Tuning Protocol process for giving and receiving feedback
In this video Da Vinci Academy alumni explain how PBL prepared them for their future.
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From Enduring Understandings to Organized Chaos
Da Vinci Academy alumni explain how PBL prepared them for their future.
This video combines fresh animation and lively presentation by Sam Seidel, author of the book Hip Hop Genius, about the need to "keep it real" in school with PBL.
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Keep It Real
This video combines fresh animation and lively presentation by Sam Seidel, about authentic learning.
Teachers at Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School in San Francisco discuss the different 21st Century 4 C's competencies in this video
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Propositions Project: 21st Century Skills
Teachers discuss the different 21st Century 4 C's competencies required to complete the Propositions Project