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Here is another great resource I came across today featuring a list of prominent authors and illustrators on Twitter. If you are planning to make Twitter part of your professional development plans ( which I strongly recommend for you ) then you have all kinds of resources to start with.

Have you ever been interested in being on the radio? In this workshop you will have the opportunity to express your own opinions and be heard. Through writing and recording an audio commentary, you will answer the question: Does History Repeat Itself?

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!

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.

What is it? The first graders will investigate the age-old adage: You are what you eat. They will learn about how to promote a healthy lifestyle for themselves, their families, and the community. Students will begin by thinking about what it means to be healthy and think about things that they do to be healthy.

This presentation introduces you to the 6A's to consider when creating or assessing project based learning.

Create notes in your own workspace wall. You can save your workspace at any time and return to them from the same computer or any other computer. You can also share your notes with others by providing the workspace name (or url) to a friend.

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

This is a great 41 day unit on climate change. Even if you don't have the ability or desire to implement the entire thing, there are a lot of great resources and ideas here.

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!

This site has an abundance of resources for incorporating PBL into math.

On the Wikipedia website about PBL it says that teaching math using PBL is one of the controversial topics because math is a skill-based subject. As a math teacher I was impressed with the amount of resources out there for PBL and math.

Welcome this first of a four part series intended to provide Math teachers with some outstanding PBL resources. First, to ensure you do not miss one of these valuable posts or other resources covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS.

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

In New-Tritional Info, students use rates and proportions to calculate how long they'd have to exercise to burn off different McDonald's menu items and explore this even further in two project tasks, Have It Your Way and Would You Like Fries with That?

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!"

Short Description: During the course of this project, you will build a civilization based on the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs pyramid.

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.