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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.
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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.
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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.
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Planning Tools
Frame the DQ's initial words, person or entity, action or challenge, and audience/purpose.
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Planning Tools
This planning document is designed to help you list the key project milestones, to represent significant moments or stages.
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Planning Tools
Plan how to use formative assessment in a project to be sure students are learning content and building 21st century competencies
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Planning Tools
Use the Project Path to guide you through every phase of your project.
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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.
Other Videos
Kindergarten students - mostly English learners - present their stray animals project.
This video has been translated into PORTUGUESE to explain project based learning
Other Videos
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.
This hand drawn image depicts students sitting in traditional rows.
Other Videos
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
Other Videos
ACE Leadership HS uses architecture, construction, and engineering projects to motivate and teach.
This video features high school students at Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory create art pieces that reflect how the U.S. sees itself and how the global community perceives the U.S.
Project Videos
Art via PBL that reflects how the U.S. sees itself and how the global community perceives the U.S.
Chula Vista 9th grade students create electric guitars from scratch while learning the Physics concepts that allow them to ROCK ON in this video
Project Videos
High School electric guitar project while learning Physics.
This video features High Tech High Media Arts students who created multimedia & humanities projects to "take things invisible and make them visible"
Project Videos
Students create multimedia & humanities projects to "take things invisible and make them visible" by publicly exhibiting their work.