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I like how it says to "lecture sometimes." After meeting a lot of resistance with an active learning strategy, I decided to bring back some lecture time to make students feel more comfortable and confident with the content prior to active learning processes. It worked wonders!

Featuring collaborative projects, virtual field trips, educational games, and other interactive activities. - Some of these activities could be useful to create authentic, collaborative activities within PBL projects.

This looks like a fun activity and could be adapted for a variety of age groups. A great beginning of the school year activity.

Great kid friendly site on research, interactive game board map with active links on how to do research!

Clear, concise - lists the traits and gives active examples in a PBL unit/classroom

Great cross-curricular creative activity

This PBL activity would be good for technology classes and social studies.

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.

There are way too many project-based learning blogs out there to mention nowadays. It has become such a staple of modern learning. So what's a teacher to do? Great resources are everywhere on the Web. The GDCF's own Solution Fluency Activity Planner currently hosts over 20,000 users.

(Author note: I piloted this project in the spring of 2005. The following description offers a detailed look at how the project evolved.) Week One The project begins by giving students the project sheet ( Appendix I.1.1) and breaking students into their project groups (pairs whenever possible).

Sample PBL... great opening activity to establish a positive and cohesive learning environment.

Provides many examples in various content areas

How PBL is important to the development and understanding of physical activity during physical education