Resources for Project Based Learning
This is a collection of end products that show the result of projects. Learning in Hand and Tony Vincent have included other tools and links, as well.
Find sample projects to use as models for your own designs using Buck Institute's Project Search. They are organized in BIE's Gold Standard design template.
At Expeditionary Learning, teachers have a bank of searchable products focused on clarifying the questions of: What is high quality student work?
The PBL planning template includes all components of a high quality PBL as well as JCPS Success Skills.
This tuning protocol is used to help teachers give each other critical feedback on project plans and designs.
PBL Consulting provides here a large bank of resources around planning and improving project plans. You may need to sign in with an email address.
Towards the end of this post, there is a list of 50 ideas for interdisciplinary projects that you can use to jump-start your own plans.
This project rubric, adapted from Steinberg's 6 A's by the New Tech Network, is a helpful way to reflect on and improve projects.
Get a look inside Seneca High School's PBL planning with this bank of Project Cards. This collection will surely spark ideas for ways plan engaging, authentic work for your own students.
Trouble-shooting project based learning? These 20 Tips for Managing Project-Based Learning will help you in the implementation of PBL in your classroom. It covers topics such as how to handle slackers, the use of power and empowerment, and differentiation.
Find rubrics around creativity and other student dispositions, rubrics to assess teacher-designed projects, and others using BIE's Rubric bank.
In this article, you can find 4 projects that are approachable for new teachers in an elementary context.
Here is a bank of over 100 project cards from High Tech High. These cards are one-pagers that describe many imaginative and interdisciplinary projects. Use them for inspiration or to spark your own creativity.
This project planning template includes an overview, driving questions, day by day planning template, and scaffolded assessment template.
