How-to Tips and Tools
Scaffolding Student Thinking in Projects
3 tips: clarify learning goals, formatively assess and provide guided practice, and create space for thinking about thinking.
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
Scaffolding a Geo-Inquiry Film Project with Google Slides
Facilitating high quality collaboration among students with Google Slides.
Projects in Action
Using PBL to Figure Out Social Media and Screen Time
Students create guidelines for parents on teens' use of social media, using resources from Common Sense Media.
How-to Tips and Tools
Easy on the Spices: Using the Right Technology to Support PBL Teaching
A middle school instructional coach recommends tech tools to help with problems of practice in 3 Gold Standard PBL Project Design Elements.
Projects in Action
Chaos, Kindness, and Kindergarten
A project that went beyond expectations, in which children planned and carried out a kindness campaign to help others in their community and beyond.
How-to Tips and Tools
Q: What’s the Right Dosage of PBL? A: Not Once Per Year
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer argues for more frequent and regular use of PBL across a school and throughout the year, to maximize its impact on students and build an effective PBL school culture.
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Our Students; Our Co-workers
The importance of teachers' letting go of the “sage on the stage” role and engaging with students in project work.
How-to Tips and Tools
4 Projects About the Civil Rights Movement
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, here are some projects on the Civil Rights Movement in U.S. history.
General PBL
Design Thinking and a Bias Towards Action with PBL
A continuation high school principal tells how students used design thinking to reimagine the high school classroom.