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another great flat-classroom project by Cindy schultz.  Collaboration between high schoolers and 3rd graders about the history of famous people in their town from a child's perspective.

Aboriginal Art project-based learning

Project based learning in the technology classroom diary: T minus one week After spending 3 weeks teaching my grade 9's project management using Scrum, we finally moved on to Alexey Krivitsky's terrific and well-known Lego City simulation.

There is a ton of information in this post. It's a great extension to what was covered in CEDO501.

Interesting post from a prolific Ed blogger who has always written about Ed and the "bleeding edge" worth following and very readable. This post posits that if we are to introduce a non Americanised version of PBL then we should expect systematic change over a long period of time so that it becomes ingrained in the learning culture of the school. I particularly like this position because it takes into account the longevity of the teachers capacity not only to with stand the change but also to be part of the new paradigm.

A good overview of constructivism as a concept of learning and method for teaching. Very clear, and all the major contributors are identified.

assessing the common core standards: real life mathematics

we are teachers project based assignments

"When lap­tops first arrived in my class­room, I wor­ried about class­room man­age­ment. How could I cre­ate an envi­ron­ment where stu­dents used their com­put­ers as tools rather than toys?"

Great practical tips here!!

Example PBL Units for science; mostly cell biology