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"It really, actually changed my life."
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This video features high school students reflect on their experience of Project Based Learning and also practiced the 21st century competencies needed for personal and workplace success.
High school students reflect on their experience of Project Based Learning.
Presentation Plan
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This document helps students organize their presentations with a specific audience in mind.
Using Roles in Teams
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Effective teams require us to think carefully about the kind of work students will be doing throughout the project. What outcomes are most important? How can we utilize teams so students effectively reach those outcomes?
Revisiting Need to Knows
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The need to know questions that initiated inquiry at the beginning of the project are central to students’ learning as they follow the project path. Need to know questions are revisited throughout the project in order to track learning and support sustained inquiry.
Forming Project Teams
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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
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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
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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
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Use the Project Path to guide you through every phase of your project.
Gold Standard PBL: Project Based Teaching Practices
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Overview of BIE's new model for teaching in a Project Based Learning environment.
Turning Student Groups into Effective Teams
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A guide to forming teams, helping them become effective, & using peer ratings to adjust grades.
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.
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.