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Resource: (Product Toolkit)
A policy proposal is a formal document or presentation that outlines a recommended course of action to address a specific problem or need. It typically includes an issue analysis, proposed solutions, evidence supporting the recommendations, and an implementation plan.
Resource: (Product Toolkit)
A physical model or prototype is a tangible representation of an idea, object, or system. Models are used to visualize concepts, simulate processes, or communicate design ideas while prototypes serve as functional examples for testing and iteration
Resource: (Product Toolkit)
Event planning and hosting involve designing, organizing, and holding a gathering or activity for a specific audience and purpose. Events can range from small, focused workshops to larger-scale exhibitions, performances, or community celebrations.
Resource: (Strategy Guides)
Students conduct interviews as a part of many Project Based Learning experiences.
Resource: (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.
Resource: (Strategy Guides)
Effective preparation for presentations helps students build project management, collaboration, and communication skills and ensures that their presentations are high-quality and impactful.
Resource: (Strategy Guides)
Using models of quality work is a powerful strategy for Gold Standard Project Based Learning.
Resource: (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.
Resource: (Student Handouts)
This contract can be used by a project team to agree upon how they will work together.
Resource: (Student Handouts)
This document helps students think about what they did in the project and how well the project went.
Resource: (Strategy Guides)
Helping all students (including English Language Learners) become fluent in the language of a project’s targeted content is an essential part of teaching in a PBL classroom.
Resource: (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.
Resource: (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.
Resource: (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.
Resource: (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.
Resource: (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.
Resource: (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.
Resource: (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.
