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Project Plant It! has lots of fun ideas to get your students actively involved in learning more about trees. The "Get Active!" section contains links to PDFs of ready-to-use activities for your class. Because it's designed to incorporate the arts, science, math and physical activity, there's no shortage of fun ways to get your students excited about Project Plant It!

Sustainable School Project; must sign up, but lots of free amazing resources!

Great blog for working with teachers on PBL... powerful message and comparison of PBL to "a project"

A group of Harvard researchers is teaming up with schools in Oakland, Calif. to explore how kids learn through making. Through an initiative called Project Zero, they're investigating the theory that kids learn best when they're actively engaged in designing and creating projects to explore concepts. 

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

This is a cool concept.

great resource for using sites in class!  4th grade examples here...

Student handouts for use or as reference when working on PBL projects.

Tools for Project Based Learning - Buck Institute

planning forms from BIE for Project Based Learning work

Project Based Learning planning forms in PDF and Word. 

The Wallet Project: an example of how students use the design thinking cycle...  Great image for building a maker cart!

"The Reading and Writing Project LLC provides literacy professional development to schools across the United States and the world, and generates ideas that are foundational to literacy instruction worldwide."

Project based Learning, STEM, and resources to support.

Creative Book Builder is a fantastic app that allows students to create books in epub format, which can then be exported to iBooks and shared with others. There are a variety of instructional uses for this app, from using it as a publishing tool for project-based learning to a summative assessment at the end of a unit. Students can embed images, audio files, video files, and write text. The advantage of an epub document over a PDF document is that all of the media will be preserved and available for readers to interact with when the final product is published.

examples of science investigations for teaching variables, question,

"The goal of the Artful Thinking program is to help students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning - in the arts, and across school subjects.The program is one of several programs at Project Zero linked by the theme "Visible Thinking." "

"Mission US is a multimedia project that immerses players in U.S. history content through free interactive games. "

"Want to ...Explore the past? ...Create a digital project? ...Showcase your ideas? ...Teach history? SIGN UP NOW »"