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In this blog post, a high school teacher reflects on her experience with PBL.

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.

This very short summary would be a valuable resource to share with teachers who are reluctant to consider project-based learning. It addresses some of the concerns teachers may have about PBL, including student learning of content knowledge, student engagement and motivation, and outcomes with at-risk learners.

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.

Powerful video on how a teacher changed her own classroom to student driven, and how learning became more meaningful to students.

May provide interesting ideas and inspiration for junior high language teachers!

This project analyzes a student's writing skills, media literacy, creativity, and teamwork abilities. This classroom newpaper will also enhance student, teacher, parent relations. Summarize the theme for this project. Why do this project?

These handouts are a good resource for teachers that are interested in implementing PBL.

The Network support districts, teachers, administrators and students to create dynamic learning environments where students succeed. This resource contains multiple resources for PBL implementation. Added for Week 1 of EDTECH542 - Summer

There are way too many project-based learning blogs out there to mention nowadays. It has become such a staple of modern learning. So what's a teacher to do? Great resources are everywhere on the Web. The GDCF's own Solution Fluency Activity Planner currently hosts over 20,000 users.

In the age of standardized testing and with the move toward the Common Core for the majority of states, the driving question for many teachers is: "How can I best prepare my students to meet these demands?"

Larry Ferlazzo said, "I'll begin posting new questions and answers in late August, and during the summer will be sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past five years. You can see all those collections from the first four years here. Here are the ones I've posted so far: This Year's Most Popular Q & A Posts!"

Project-based learning is a great way for English Language Learners to develop content knowledge and language skills. When done correctly, teachers are able to leverage the students learning in both English and the students' native language.

Before we get into the *Here are The big buzz word: power of PBL*, this is a good time to remind you that I'm a special education teacher in an K-5 elementary building. I work with a wide variety of students with disabilities (learning and nonspecific) in their classes, my resource room, small group, and one-to-one.

As a math teacher, we have a lot to "cover". This gives some solid tips for incorporating PBL into all that math content.