How-to Tips and Tools
PBL with English Language Learners: A Vital Need
A powerful argument that all students are "ready" for PBL, with 8 strategies for scaffolding projects for English Learners.
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
Projects in Action
3rd Grade Project: Real-Life Lessons in Fables & Fairy Tales
An interdisciplinary unit involving the general classroom, design thinking, P.E., music, art, and addressing problems in their community.
General PBL
Can We Stop Saying “a PBL”?
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer suggests calling it a "PBL unit" or "project"--for more than grammatical reasons.
How-to Tips and Tools
Equity in PBL Social Studies Classes Through Student Choice
A high school social studies teacher discusses how giving choices for content, texts, and products in projects promotes equity.
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL in Music: Driving Questions Invoke Deeper Musical Learning
A music teacher makes the case for PBL, with 3 sample project ideas from her concert choir, string orchestra, and ukulele classes.
How-to Tips and Tools
A PBL Culture of Thinking: Routines
Why projects should focus on student thinking, not only the product, with sample thinking routines for each of the 4 phases of a project.
Projects in Action
Secondary Special Education Project: Student-Led IEPs
An inclusion specialist at a PBL high school describes a powerful, authentic project with elements of Gold Standard PBL.
Projects in Action
Our Students Planned Our Spring Break Trip
Two 4th grade teachers engage their class in an interdisciplinary project to learn state history, geography, math, and literacy.
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL Blossoms When You Grow Your Network
An elementary teacher gives 5 suggestions for a "PBL Support Team" including resource teachers, librarians, local organizations, and families.