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PBL Ideas and Resources

Are you all about engaging your students in the digital age by designing authentic projects that matter? Then, plug into project-based learning and discover ways your students can benefit from it.

 

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Remember that ideas for project-based activities can be developed into more meaningful project-based learning.

Beginning PBL

Thinking of beginning PBL? Start off by visiting these web sites which can help your planning for project-based learning.

Buck Institute for Education

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You'll find the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students.

Planning Tools from Buck Institute for Education

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Find links to downloadable tools for rubrics, implementation tools, planning forms, and a tuning protocol for evaluating project development.

Project-Based Learning Videos from Edutopia

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These are real classrooms sharing their projects and the teacher sharing the process.

Project Exchange

Looking for project exchanges? Join a project that has already been created.

ePals

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Find projects for classroom collaboration.

Global Schoolnet

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“Global SchoolNet's mission is to support 21^st century learning. We engage teachers and students in meaningful project learning exchanges with people around the world to develop literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork and collaboration, encourage workforce preparedness and create multi-cultural understanding.”

iEARN Collaboration Centre

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International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) is a non-profit organization made up of over 27,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 125 countries. There are over 300 projects in iEARN all designed and facilitated by teachers and students to fit their curriculum and classroom needs and schedules.

Technology and Information Skills Standards

National Education Technology Standards (NETS)

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ISTE NETS provide a framework for educators to use as they transition schools from industrial age to digital age places of learning.

American Association of School Librarians (AASL)

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AASL Standards for the 21^st-Century Learner offer vision for teaching and learning leaders.

Assessment Resources

Project Based Learning Checklist

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Find “age-appropriate, customizable project checklists for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects. The use of these checklists keeps students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation.”

RubiStar

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“Registered users can save and edit rubrics online. You can access them from home, school, or on the road. Registration and use of this tool is free...”

Rubric Maker from Tech4Learning

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“...[M]ake customized assessments for student work. You can create rubrics for primary, elementary, middle, and high school.”

Assessment and Rubric Information from Kathy Schrock

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“...[F]ind a collection of assessment rubrics and graphic organizers that may be helpful to you as you design your own.”

Articles

• Edutopia. (2008, Feb.). Why teach with project learning?: Providing students with a well-rounded classroom experience. Edutopia. Retrieved January 16, 2009, from http://www.edutopia.org/print/5250.
• Rubenstein, G. (2008, Dec.). From corn fields to technology. Edutopia. Retrieved January 16, 2009, from http://www.edutopia.org/collaboration-age-technology-lawrence-township.