PBL Blog

A new book on how education urgently needs to make the shift to John Dewey’s ideas about how people actually learn.

How a powerful, engaging border-land project on immigration led to connections with real-world organizations and issues.

Four strategies for building reading, writing, and presentation skills.

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer shares tips and resources for starting the school year with students who are new to PBL.

A principal in a low-income community explains how his school meets students’ emotional needs using "Stoke Deck" activities from Stanford's d.school.

How teachers designed a 4th grade science project in response to students' interests that "left us with a sense of accomplishment and wonder."

A list of resources to help teachers enhance their skill in PBL assessment.

Meeting the Project Based Teaching Rubric criteria “clearly and specifically derived from standards” and “allows demonstration of mastery” requires careful thought and planning.

A 5th grade teacher shares important lessons learned from a project on the human body.

A secondary teacher provides 5 strategies for PBL units, such as leveled texts, graphic organizers, transition words, and text annotation, and more.