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Project Idea: Students work collaborative (in groups of 4) to develop an interactive multimedia Escape to Freedom Game based on the exploits of one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Ross Tubman. This PBL project reminds me of a simulation that my students love, The Underground Railroad: Journey to Freedom.

"Step 5: Evaluate Students: Your goal in this step is to evaluate your completed product and the process you used to create the product."

"PBL Helps Students Develop Skills for Living in a Knowledge-Based, Highly Technological Society"

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.

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!

Awesome PBL project that focuses on World War II-era propaganda. Students have the opportunity to create a propaganda poster or short film as a culminating activity that they share with the "Ministry of Propaganda" (fellow students and school administrators).

This is a great informative article detailing some PBL resources. Some of these we have already explored, but there are also some new ones.

This site offers 12 great PBL resources. Many teachers need help when organizing and facilitating PBL and this site can lead them to great ideas and projects in any classroom.

This is a nice consolidation of resources on PBL. It was written a few years ago, but the links it contains lead to some up-to-date resources on PBL.

An excellent example of PBL with such a great message for students

Article that discusses ideas for entry events for PBL projects, as well as why having an engaging entry event is important for launching your project and gaining student interest.

This is the summary of a study done by Lucas Education Research. It affirms that PBL improves student performance.

Title Job Today - Gone Tomorrow! Project Idea: Entry Event: Students will begin a discussion with the following question: What happens if you go to the dentist to get a tooth filled one day, but find that there is no drilling involved?Now, there is a new way to take care of this procedure but what is it?This is the problem.Students will brainstorm jobs that may "change" in the future and how the jobs will change.The problem is to design this "new job" of the future.

This article succinctly points out why PBL can be so difficult to initiate into a school system. The author notes that our educational systems reward obedience over innovation. Worth thinking about how that can be changed.

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.

This study compared 7th and 8th graders' achievement between groups of students who engaged in project-based learning with those who did not. This study is based on Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory, a method of experiential learning that starts with observation and reflections that leads to abstract concepts that lead to new ideas and thinking (Cervantes et al., 2015). The learning cycle, pictured below helps students learn and practice 21st-century learning skills needed for both college and career. The groups that engaged in project-based learning outperformed the groups that did not engage in PBL in both STAAR reading and math tests(Cervantes et al., 2015).