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The students will work in groups to create a Multimedia Presentation that informs an authentic audience as well as the class about civil rights figures, their speeches/quotes and how these leaders have impacted their life today. Each group will choose different civil rights leaders as their focus.

The students will recognize how people make a difference in the world by researching the volunteer work of others and showing others what they have learned.

This is a great site that lets you easily search for PBL ideas/lesson plans by grade level and subject matter areas.

Learning Through Landscaping: A fourth grade PBL unit where students explore the topic of landscaping to improve their grounds.

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.

Title A Newspaper Project: It's News to Me! The West Virginia Department of Education has produced a variety of well thought out comprehensives Projects, this is just one. High level of detail.

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.

This PBL requires students to use persuasive techniques to create an advertisement of a product they have created. It could be modified to include an analysis of how advertisements affect our choices.

Title Immigrants: On the Move with the American Slide Project Idea: The challenge to students is that they must evaluate how immigrants have been influenced by the American culture and how the American culture has been shaped by immigrants.

Project idea for an 8th grade math class centered around games and probability

West Virginia Dept of Educ - solid examples of PBL lessons, different curricular areas, including music

"Stock the Stacks" 5th Grade ELA: PBL Idea

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

This website has PBL ideas for all grade levels for science.

Title Get Your Heads In the Clouds! Project Idea

Can Immigrants Work? Great way to introduce an element of debate to 5th graders.