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Great collaborative project for elementary students using technology tools. Students even collaborate across continents!

Mariana Garcia's blog has wonderful PBL resources. This post has projects for life science, earth science, physical science, engineering, and STEM competitions.

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.

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.

Jon Hirsch shares lessons learned from implementation of PBL at the LIFE School at Horace Greeley High School, in Chappaqua, NY.

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.

A detailed project overview of a nutrition project, provided by the Buck Institute of Education.

Title How Does Physical Geography Influence Your Life? Project Idea: The physical geography of a location has a significant impact on the people living there. Entry Event: West Virginia governor Joe Manchin wants you to help create a series of vodcasts about West Virginia for a new website called "LearnWV."

My oldest 2 and soon 3 students attend a local magnet school that is part of the New Tech Network. I've been so grateful for PBL education for my students. It's not always perfect, but they've created some amazing projects and they've had a superior education to mine in terms of preparation for later life. When you put on a conference for mental health professions as a sophomore class, or create and entire interactive WWI exhibit for the community that made me cry, or try to convince real lawyers that you have enough evidence for a hearing to prosecute your ficitional suspect, you are doing some hard, fun learning!

As a social studies teacher, I found this article very helpful. It was really interesting to read the breakdown of the project. There is a lot of frontloading and scaffolded steps to get the students ready to start the projects.