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21st Century Fluency Project - the Committed Sardine Blog Here are some great ideas to move you forward in Project Based Learning by the staff of TeachThought

English Language Learners (ELL) are becoming more widespread in classrooms ranging from K-12 to higher education. When utilizing PBL in an ELL classroom how can we as educators design projects to not only support language learning but also engage students?

Now integrates with Goole. Great platform for PBL!

Discusses the steps to allow for more opportunities for students.

Students can use these to collaborate within and between groups on their ideas for the mural. They can also add links to various murals they find inspiring and write about why that is. They can also work together using Google Docs to create a presentation of their idea for school administrators when they are ready for that step.

A collection of curricular units that tie science concepts to engineering design challenges

PBL works has a very nice site, but they are much more interested in middle and elementary school, than high school. I like Teach Engineering. I look a PBL class this school year from a company that creates PBL units and even they are really light on chemistry and physics for upper grades.

This site connects math to social issues. You can browse by the math topic or the social justice issue. For many projects this can be really valuable!

An excellent overview describing what the TIM is and how to use it.

Good example ideas for Elementary level teachers

This has several PBL lessons for adult/college-age students.

I went to the AECT.org site to see what it had about project-based learning. AECT stands for Association for Educational Communications and Technology. It is a professional organization for people interested in educational technology. I first checked out its "divisions" to see if it had one dedicated to PBL (it does not). I eventually searched the site for the term, which surprisingly only resulted a few hits. One was an interview with Dr. Krista Glazewski, who serves as the editor for Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning (IJPBL). I was curious to see if that journal would include the topic of PROJECT-based learning, and it does. The interview was informative because it talks about the three main areas this journal covers (research, conceptual pieces, and "voices from the field"). Professor Glazewski explains that it is an open access journal, committed to remaining free to contributors and readers. (the first 10 minutes was especially informative)

Great article about the importance of implementing PBL projects.