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Students observe night sky and compare their observations with others from around the world to investigate the problem of light pollution. There are lots of ideas for extension activities on this site, each of which could be the basis of a PBL experience. Teachers would have to do some work to plan activities and create rubrics, but there is an authentic purpose and audience already built in.

Web quest for 9th-10th grade world history students studying Islam.

I loved how you took the lesson that you and Candyce started, and then collaborated with Sheryl to improve it. It turned out so strong. I am especially happy that you and Sheryl will start using images from FlickrCC. Fab! I was wondering if you ended up improving the rubric with Bloom's taxonomy? I noticed the verbs were all describe, so I was wondering how that would look different with Bloom's verbs.

Project Based Lesson Plan for 1st and 2nd including a rubric