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Although this project was created using the old PBL standard the basic components of civic responsibility for second graders can be applied to professional responsibility for respiratory therapy students. The project provides a useful template from which to build my grade and content specific content for improving safety in healthcare. The projects involves: Second graders are ready to conquer the world-and they can start with their community. In Make a Difference: Civic Responsibility, elementary school students partner with local organizations to fill a real need, help a specific population, engage in public service, and make a tangible difference in their neighborhoods and beyond.

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Love this! My PBL unit for EdTech 542 is headed in this very direction!

In this lesson, students delve into the booming field. We offer examples of how The Times uses analytics to enhance its sports coverage, and we suggest ways that students can collect their own data to analyze and present information.

A Gardener's Dilemma Project Idea: Students act as community members and set aside plots of land for local citizens to establish small gardens.Students will design a plan for a family garden plot. I will adapt this PBL to include technology, ELA, Science and of course, Mathematics for elementary students. I like that it is a real-world skill, affecting everyone and involves community planning.

The project revolves around the energy produced in various types of chemical reactions (a key concept in all chemistry classes) and asks students to propose a useful source of chemical energy after engaging in a series of hands-on experiments and online activities. I appreciate how this project not only requires students to think deeply about their experimental results, but also how it asks them to apply them in a new context. Students not only collect and analyze data, they must seek a useful purpose or application of their results, giving the project real-world relevance.

The Network support districts, teachers, administrators and students to create dynamic learning environments where students succeed. This resource contains multiple resources for PBL implementation. Added for Week 1 of EDTECH542 - Summer

This article is a good resource for understanding problem-based learning.

AnswerGarden - AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook. Arcademic Skill Builders - Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.

Upper Division students prepared for a talkshow exhibition about the experience of slavery and civil war through various viewpoints. Students were required to compare an aspect of slavery/civil war in America and in a Spanish-speaking country. For example, a student had to compare "life under slavery" in both America and Brazil.

Another option, similar to Popplet that can work as an online visual bulletin board for students to gather inspiration from. Pintrest might work better as they can add to their own board and also search within other people's pin boards to pull ideas from. 

This blog post covers several projects for PBL and shows how this educator assesses what is submitted.

Amazing examples of current murals!

Edtech resource for pbl

This page offers information on the history of murals. The site itself is based on a class offered by the University of Utah focusing on murals.

Website that attempts to keep track of every mural around the world. They work to act as a place that any information about any mural can be accessed.