How-to Tips and Tools
Ethnic Studies: A Vital Focus for Great Projects
A resource list for teachers for designing PBL units where students explore topics related to race, culture, and history.
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General PBL
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#FindYourProject - How National Parks Inspire Amazing Gold Standard Projects
With more than 1,500 attendees at last year's PBL World conference , luck, perhaps providence, connected me with West Virginia
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Projects in Action
The Lead2Feed Student Leadership Program
Middle and high school students find a need in their community, then plan and execute an action project that aligns with the HQPBL Framework.
How-to Tips and Tools
Overcoming 3 Pitfalls in Planning Interdisciplinary Projects
How a team of high school teachers calendars their time and collaborates to create successful PBL units for their students.
How-to Tips and Tools
Organizing a Parent PBL Night
How a school introduces parents to PBL by having them experience a "project slice" activity.
General PBL
Transforming School to Transform the World: Paradigms of Liberatory Interdependence
Parallels between PBL and pre-industrial agriculture, and how PBL can help create "reciprocal, relational, regenerative communities."
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL and Literacy: A Perfect Match for Elementary Schools
A thorough look at how reading and writing goals can be integrated with with other standards in projects.
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Project Based Teaching Practice Spotlight: Engage and Coach
How teachers play the role of coach during a project, with an excerpt from the book Project Based Teaching.
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Building PBL Culture by Bringing Yourself
The importance of relationships in PBL teaching, and how teachers can form closer connections to students.
How-to Tips and Tools
How to Get Started Planning a Full Year of PBL
A middle school teacher explains how she uses her curriculum as more than just a checklist, by combining literacy goals with concepts from other subjects in her projects.