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Forming Project Teams
Resource: (Strategy Guides)
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As students work together on projects, they learn valuable skills for collaborating, managing group dynamics and conflict, and building on one another’s strengths.
Driving Question Tubric 2.0
Resource: (Planning Tools)
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Frame the DQ's initial words, person or entity, action or challenge, and audience/purpose.
Storyboard
Resource: (Planning Tools)
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This planning document is designed to help you list the key project milestones, to represent significant moments or stages.
Project Assessment Map
Resource: (Planning Tools)
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Plan how to use formative assessment in a project to be sure students are learning content and building 21st century competencies
Project Path
Resource: (Planning Tools)
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Use the Project Path to guide you through every phase of your project.
Gold Standard PBL: Project Based Teaching Practices
Resource: (Articles)
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Overview of BIE's new model for teaching in a Project Based Learning environment.
Turning Student Groups into Effective Teams
Resource: (Articles)
A guide to forming teams, helping them become effective, & using peer ratings to adjust grades.
Main Course Not Dessert
Resource: (Articles)
This article distinguishes between PBL and lightweight "projects" and argues why PBL is essential.
Elementary Project: Courtyard Redesign
Resource: (Project Videos)
Students present their finished designs to a group of school architects, planners, & designers.
Katherine Smith School Kindergarten Presentations
Resource: (Other Videos)
This video features kindergarten student presentations of projects on stray animals.
Kindergarten students - mostly English learners - present their stray animals project.
Project Based Learning: Explained. (PORTUGUESE)
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This video has been translated into PORTUGUESE to explain project based learning
A short animated video that explains in clear language the essential elements of PBL.
World Language Project: Other Side of the Line
Resource: (Project Videos)
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.
Middle school arts project: animated shorts about the Mexico and U.S. border.
Watershed Project: Overview
Resource: (Project Videos)
This video features Marin School of Arts and Technology students evaluating the health of their local watershed.
Students evaluate the health of their local watershed by studying a small creek.
Project Based Learning: Explained
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This hand drawn image depicts students sitting in traditional rows.
Essential elements of PBL, 21st century competencies, differences from traditional teaching.
PBL at ACE Leadership High School
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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
ACE Leadership HS uses architecture, construction, and engineering projects to motivate and teach.
Mirror Project in English & History
Resource: (Project Videos)
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.
Art via PBL that reflects how the U.S. sees itself and how the global community perceives the U.S.
Science Project: Physics Rocks
Resource: (Project Videos)
Chula Vista 9th grade students create electric guitars from scratch while learning the Physics concepts that allow them to ROCK ON in this video
High School electric guitar project while learning Physics.
Multimedia & Humanities Project: Invisibility
Resource: (Project Videos)
This video features High Tech High Media Arts students who created multimedia & humanities projects to "take things invisible and make them visible"
Students create multimedia & humanities projects to "take things invisible and make them visible" by publicly exhibiting their work.
Math Project: Board Games
Resource: (Project Videos)
This video features High Tech High Media Art 9th grade students who created math board games to review concepts which involved critique by 4th & 5th graders.
Students create math board games to review concepts.
The Hydrology Project: Making Learning Relevant
Resource: (Project Videos)
This video features students at Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson, AZ conduct a project-based science learning assignment called the Hydrology Project.
High School Project: Hydrology Project that measures the effects of erosion and water quality.