Projects in Action
Fostering Serendipity in PBL
How a powerful, engaging border-land project on immigration led to connections with real-world organizations and issues.
PBL Blog
From Skills to Purpose: How Project Based Learning Brings Literacy to Life
“Literacy development has always been connected to identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and joy. When we reduce it to only
Recent Blogs
How-to Tips and Tools
Embed Literacy into STEM Projects
Four strategies for building reading, writing, and presentation skills.
General PBL
How to Prepare Students for PBL
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer shares tips and resources for starting the school year with students who are new to PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
Stoking the Culture for PBL: Using Icebreakers & Energizers to Engage All Learners
A principal in a low-income community explains how his school meets students’ emotional needs using "Stoke Deck" activities from Stanford's d.school.
Projects in Action
What Mars Can Tell Us about Earth
How teachers designed a 4th grade science project in response to students' interests that "left us with a sense of accomplishment and wonder."
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Resource List: Assessment in PBL
A list of resources to help teachers enhance their skill in PBL assessment.
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.