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Article accessed through BSU library that discusses benefits of PBL, relationship to standardized testing, and how it can be differentiated among other themes.

This site is especially helpful for school districts looking for guidance in establishing 21st century curriculum. Besides resources for teachers, it has guidelines and resources for district administrators. This site gives teachers the support that they may need if they are trying to incorporate PBL and are meeting some resistance.

This is a good example of a project designed for 8th grade students to consider careers that might be possible in the 21st century.

PDF from PBLWorks website, a list of research studies investigating how PBL supports 21st century learning goals.

This site has an abundance of resources for incorporating PBL into math.

On the Wikipedia website about PBL it says that teaching math using PBL is one of the controversial topics because math is a skill-based subject. As a math teacher I was impressed with the amount of resources out there for PBL and math.

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I've found that students enjoy the idea of creating their own games so why not turn it into a more meaningful lesson tied to CCSS and 21st Century learning skills?

"Why new schools are choosing an old model to bring students into the 21st century."

A great source of links for PBL.

This is a website with over 45 links to PBL resources.

I found some excellent resources here - thanks for sharing.

Possible idea for an PBL in an English, History of AVID classroom. Focuses on the use of research, MLA and 21st century skills.

21st Century Fluency Project - the Committed Sardine Blog Here are some great ideas to move you forward in Project Based Learning by the staff of TeachThought

This study compared 7th and 8th graders' achievement between groups of students who engaged in project-based learning with those who did not. This study is based on Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory, a method of experiential learning that starts with observation and reflections that leads to abstract concepts that lead to new ideas and thinking (Cervantes et al., 2015). The learning cycle, pictured below helps students learn and practice 21st-century learning skills needed for both college and career. The groups that engaged in project-based learning outperformed the groups that did not engage in PBL in both STAAR reading and math tests(Cervantes et al., 2015).