Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Resource List: Assessment in PBL
A list of resources to help teachers enhance their skill in PBL assessment.
PBL Blog
How Project Based Learning Helped My Multilingual Students Find Their Voice
What happens when we invite students to share the most personal parts of their lives through schoolwork? Can learning that centers
Recent Blogs
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
3 Tips for Getting Standards-Aligned Products
Meeting the Project Based Teaching Rubric criteria “clearly and specifically derived from standards” and “allows demonstration of mastery” requires careful thought and planning.
Projects in Action
Inside Out: A Science Unit that Taught Me the In’s & Out’s of PBL
A 5th grade teacher shares important lessons learned from a project on the human body.
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL & Literacy: Teaching Reading While on a Learning Journey
A secondary teacher provides 5 strategies for PBL units, such as leveled texts, graphic organizers, transition words, and text annotation, and more.
General PBL
Reflections on My Experience at PBL World 2018
A teacher tells what she gained from the Project Slice & PBL Coaching workshops.
How-to Tips and Tools
A Tricky Part of PBL: Writing a Driving Question
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer gives guidance for troubleshooting pitfalls and deciding which type of DQ fits your project.
How-to Tips and Tools
Why Collaboration is More Than “Group Work”
How to avoid common misconceptions of why and when students need to work in teams in a project, such as "divide and conquer."
Projects in Action
Open Your Classroom Door to CA State Parks: PBL & PORTS Program
An overview of 4 secondary science projects available free to teachers, aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.
How-to Tips and Tools
Lowering the Driving (Question) Age
A kindergarten teacher explains how to co-create driving questions for projects with young children.