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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
The team contract is a document introduced at the start of each project that asks project teams to think through and agree on how students will individually contribute to the team, how the members will work together, and how problems will be solved when they arise.
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.
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Planning Tools
This planning template can be used to design your next PBL project.
PBL Spotlights
We asked National Faculty how PBL can enhance teaching and learning in a variety of disciplines. Here's what they had to say.
Planning Tools
Use this tool to plan for thoughtful collaboration with industry and community partners.
PBL Spotlights
We asked National Faculty how PBL can enhance teaching and learning in a variety of disciplines. Here's what they had to say.
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Student Handouts
This document helps a team keep track of project tasks, who is responsible for them, and by when.
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Product Toolkit
An idea talk (inclusive of TED Talks, PechaKuchas, Ignite Talks, and other formats) is a short, concise presentation about a focused idea using a structured format.
PBL Spotlights
We asked National Faculty how PBL can enhance teaching and learning in a variety of disciplines. Here's what they had to say.
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Product Toolkit
A podcast is an audio recording or series of audio recordings focused on a particular topic or theme, similar to a talk radio show.
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Student Handouts
Explains PBL, details the project, addresses assessment issues, and informs parents how to help.
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Teaching Practice Videos
The Buck Institute has created this short videos to help explain the Project Based Teaching Practices in our model for Gold Standard PBL.
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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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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.