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Laurprofessional - PBL Overview. FreeBIEs. Rubric for Rubrics | FreeBIEs | Tools. Driving Question Tubric 2.0 | FreeBIEs | Tools. 8 Essentials for Project-Based Learning | FreeBIEs | Tools. PBL. - Over 25 Links Uncovering Project Based Learning Resources On The Web. BIE – Also known as the BUCK Institute for Learning. Check out this site for activities, videos, handouts, and research. BIE is the mother lode of PBL and its site is one of the best. You can also contact BIE for professional development needs. Here are some highlights to explore inside this site. BIE Videos - What Is PBL Video – A great collection of videos that demonstrate PBL and its best practices.

PBL Example Projects - Are you looking for some project ideas… watch these videos to learn even more. BIE Tools – PBL Project Search - Here you will find a collection of 450 proven lesson plans to set any PBL desire into action. BIE PBL Research Library - Here you will find a wonderful collection of research summaries, full papers, and presentation materials. BIE PBL Do IT Your-Self Kit – BIE has developed this Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Tutorial based on the PBL Toolkit books and highlights from the popular PBL 101 Workshop. West Virginia Teach 21 PBL Learning Reviews Edutopia The Rest. Project Based Learning and iPads/iPods. Introducing an irresistible project at the beginning of a unit of study can give students a clear and meaningful reason for learning.

Plus, they end up with a product or result that could possibility make a difference in the world! In project based learning students are driven to learn content and skills for an authentic purpose. PBL involves students in explaining their answers to real-life questions, problems, or challenges. It starts with a driving question that leads to inquiry and investigation. Students work to create a product or presentation as their response to the driving question. Technology can be helpful throughout a project, whether students use iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets, laptops, or desktops.

I've written a primer for each of the three major components of project based learning. Project-Based Learning: Success Start to Finish. Project Based Learning. Project-Based Learning Professional Development Guide. An overview of the Edutopia professional development guide for teaching how to use project-based learning in the classroom. Edutopia.org's Project-Based Learning professional development guide can be used for a two- to three-hour session, or expanded for a one- to two-day workshop, and is divided into two parts. Part one is a guided process, designed to give participants a brief introduction to project-based learning (PBL), and answers the questions "Why is PBL important?

", "What is PBL about? ", and "How does PBL work? " Part two assigns readings and activities for experiential PBL. Ideally, the tasks will be accomplished using group collaboration and with the use of technology. These activities are outlined in the Workshop Activities section. Students Follow the Butterflies' Migration: Teacher Frances Koontz shows students a symbolic butterfly sent from children in Mexico. Continue to the next section of the guide, Why Is PBL Important? Project-Based Learning: An Overview. Student: We would place the dome right here, for instance. Narrator: These sophomore geometry students in Seattle, have a problem. And they're excited about solving it.

Eeva: The problem that they have to solve, is how do you design a state of the art high school in the year 2050, on a particular site. Students are in teams of three to four, and they're in a design competition for a contract to build it. Student: Here's the fire eliminator. This is a vacuum, there's water inside it. Narrator: In Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, these fifth graders are designing a tool to put out fires in space. Student: If you turn it on high, it sucks up the fireballs. Narrator: In Newport News, Virginia, these second graders are investigating cystic fibrosis. Student: One of our students has CF, and we're trying to learn about CF, to see what it is, how it works. Narrator: In Hawaii, high school students are building electric cars, and racing them. Student: Yeah, yeah, put something right there. Student: Definitely? Project Based learning.