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A mural arts program in Philadelphia that has many great resources for planning and creating a mural.

Editor's Note:This post was co-authored by Lori Holm, a culinary arts and religion teacher at Loma Linda Academy in Loma Linda, California. Encouraged by recent educational research, more and more teachers are finding ways to integrate the arts into their curriculum.

High Tech High's use of PBL in the art room as a stippling project!

Amazing examples of current murals!

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.

This is aimed at K12 Language Arts, but a good synopsis of online tools.

includes an element of art/creativity

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.

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. 

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. 

A visual idea board that multiple users can collaborate on adding text, images, maps, videos, and more. Extremely user friendly too. 

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

Zoë Randall, Multi-Media, High Tech Middle Media Arts download pdf Students created digital stories about a defining moment, a message, or a lesson learned from their own lives or the life of someone they know. Through writing, storyboarding, and multiple cycles of critique, students developed their stories and hopefully discovered something new about themselves and others in the process.

This looks to be a good resource for K-12 inquiry-based projects that focus primarily on math and science (though there are connections to social studies and language arts). It is searchable by grade and subject.

I'm always in search of math projects. I really liked this idea because it incorporates a lot of art and media which can be strengths for students. I like to find projects that allow different students to shine.

I really like how this project can fit with many subject areas. A social studies or American history teacher could easily use this.