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Main Course Not Dessert
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This article distinguishes between PBL and lightweight "projects" and argues why PBL is essential.
Elementary Project: Courtyard Redesign
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Students present their finished designs to a group of school architects, planners, & designers.
Katherine Smith School Kindergarten Presentations
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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
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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
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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.
Tuning Protocol Overview
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A video example of the Tuning Protocol process that teachers use with teach other for giving and receiving feedback
A video example of the Tuning Protocol process for giving and receiving feedback
From Enduring Understandings to Organized Chaos
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In this video Da Vinci Academy alumni explain how PBL prepared them for their future.
Da Vinci Academy alumni explain how PBL prepared them for their future.
Keep It Real
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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.
This video combines fresh animation and lively presentation by Sam Seidel, about authentic learning.
Propositions Project: 21st Century Skills
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Teachers at Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School in San Francisco discuss the different 21st Century 4 C's competencies in this video
Teachers discuss the different 21st Century 4 C's competencies required to complete the Propositions Project
Monkey Trial Project: 21st Century Skills
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Teachers at Napa New Technology High School in Napa, CA discuss the 21st century competencies required to complete the Monkey Trial Project
Teachers discuss the 21st century competencies required to complete the Monkey Trial Project
21st Century Skills Culture
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This video features students at High Tech High using creative thinking and collaborative work to connect the classroom with the real world while developing 21st Century skills in mixed ability teams.
Students use creative thinking and collaborative work to connect the classroom with the real world while developing 21st Century skills
Math and Molecules Matter
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Mathematics teachers from across several counties in southern Indiana learned about applying PBL during "Math Matters," in this video
Teachers reflect upon lessons from applying PBL to "Math Matters".
Mirror Project in English & History
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.