Launching your PBL is more than just telling students about what they will do in the PBL. It is an experience you design to hook students into the project and spark their curiosity about what they will do. This can be a discrepant event, an immersive learning experience, a field trip, an intriguing video or a guest speaker. Below are some resources to help you start thinking about what your launch might be. 

• Video: Launching a Project - History example

• Video: Example Entry Event - PE

• Video: Example Entry Event - Chem Tech - Cheese

• Video: Example Entry Event - Photoshop Project

• How to Get Projects Off to a Good Start 

Collaboration is an essential element to making PBL fit into a packed time schedule. Students can divide and conquer the labor; however, you can not throw students into a group and expect them to know how to work together. Below are resources to help the process and support student ownership of the project work.

• Team Contract - helps students to lay out how they will work together on a project.

• Example Group Roles - Group roles can help divide the labor within a project and teach students how professionals work together in the professional world.

• Video: Scrum in Schools - Scrum boards can be excellent project management tools for student teams and as a teacher. They help students have a working document or board where they add daily tasks and mark off as things are completed or ready for feedback.

• Building Community Through Collaboration at the Start of the School Year

• How Collaboration Promotes Deeper Learning

• Building a Culture of Hiring

• This Framework Makes Group Projects More Collaborative—and Individual

• 27 Tips for Managing the Messy Middle of a PBL

Padlet of PBL Articles - This padlet is a collective and ever-growing repository of articles that support all aspects of PBL.