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Free Project Based Learning Resources That Will Place Students At The Center Of Learning

Why Teach with Project-Based Learning?: Providing Students With a Well-Rounded Classroom Experience Project-based learning helps students apply what they learn to real-life experiences and provides an all-around enriching education.

Create your own "Choose Your Own Adventure" story -------------- I can see this as a fab way to incorporate research, creativity, and critical thinking (21st century learning) with historical events. For example, what if George Washington hadn't decided to have his troops inoculated against the smallpox epidemic  during the Revolutionary War -- How would that have affected the casualty rate? -- and from there the adventure could show a possible different outcome. 

Darcy Goshorn said, "Innovative mashup of grammar instruction and digital badging." The work of a writing instructor never ends. Grmr.me can cut down on that work and improve student learning by providing instruction on common writing errors rather than simple correction. We call the most common errors writing felonies. Each writing felony has a video that demonstrates how to identify the error and how to correct it. Below each video are interactive quizzes that confirm a topic is mastered. Writers who pass the assessments earn a badge.

"American Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe This primary source set showcases five prominent American authors and includes examples of the different media that promoted, and sometimes significantly altered, their public images and literary works. Looking at these primary sources provides an opportunity to explore both the authors' literary texts and the ways in which those works, and the authors themselves, were portrayed in the media at the time of their renown." Some Common Core connections include: CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.11-12.7 ( Grades 11-12 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem. CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.11-12.9 ( Grades 11-12 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources. CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.11-12.8 ( Grades 11-12 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information. CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.9-10.8 ( Grades 9-10 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims. CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.9-10.9 ( Grades 9-10 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.