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High Tech High is a non-profit organization developing public schools in communities across California. This page showcases many of their PBL's, and is a great place to get some ideas.

High Tech High is a non-profit organization developing public schools in communities across California. Many of their projects are posted at this website.

In January I had a chance to attend a conference with many teachers from High Tech High. I am planning to do a site visit when I go to San Diego in October.

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

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.

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

I found this PBL project on BIE.org and it is titled "Special Diets". This mathematical group project has the students research specific nutritional diets with patients of certain illnesses. The students will use systems of equations and inequalities to create a presentation for a doctor suggesting nutrition requirements of patients with illnesses. This is a great idea for PBL in a math class!

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.

This article from 2007 discussed the effectiveness and implementation of different inductive teaching methods to include problem-based learning and project-based learning.

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

Key trends, emerging technologies and educational challengies are elements included in this report for all educators.

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.