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Project Based Learning: Explained
Resource: (Other Videos)
This hand drawn image depicts students sitting in traditional rows.
Essential elements of PBL, 21st century competencies, differences from traditional teaching.
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.
Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design Elements
Resource: (Articles)
Overview of the why and what of PBLWorks' new model for designing rigorous, engaging projects.
Identity Unfolded: The Zine Project
Project Snapshot: ELA
collage of a boy thinking, surrounded by sketches and images of ideas
How to Begin Building a PBL Culture Right from the Start
Resource: (Blog)
Four students working at a table with their teacher
Ideas for developing relationships, co-creating norms, practicing protocols and establishing routines, and designing a classroom conducive to PBL.
"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.
Main Course Not Dessert
Resource: (Articles)
This article distinguishes between PBL and lightweight "projects" and argues why PBL is essential.
English Learner Scaffolds for PBL
Resource: (Planning Tools)
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The EL Scaffolds for PBL document provides strategies & recommendations to support English Learners.
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.
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.
Golden Age
Project Snapshot: Social Studies
A young teenage girl looks up at the ceiling beneath the columns of the Athenian Academy in Athens, Greece.
Species Survival
Project Snapshot: Science, ELA
A large picture of a giant panda bear’s (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) face.
Heritage Horizons
Project Snapshot: Social Studies
View of China's Great Wall, with a pink sky and mountains behind it.
Sounds Like Sustainability
Project Snapshot: ELA
person wearing headphones and holding one side of them away from their ear
Ready for Anything
Project Snapshot: Science, ELA
A group of people wading through a flooded street to a pick-up truck to receive containers of water.
Making the Grade
Project Snapshot: ELA, Math
A freshly graded report card—featuring an A +, A and B + grades—with a felt-tip pen laying beside it.
Take Action Against Cyberbullying!
Project Snapshot: ELA, Health/PE
A teenage girl in jeans sits on stone steps and checks her smartphone.
Stop the Spread
Project Snapshot: Career/Technical (CTE)
two hands in latex gloves forming the shape of a heart
Broken Laws
Project Snapshot: Social Studies
Young people waving Jobs Not Jails! signs march at a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Peace Walk and Parade.
I’m Your Biggest Fan
Project Snapshot: ELA
child wearing a superhero costume