Here's a great project that I found in my search of PBL units. I really took to this particular project because it has to do with the CTE field, and the department I am in has worked closely with district CTE specialists in the development of a relatively new Computer Essentials course that all 7th graders in our district must complete. I would like to develop a PBL unit for that course that teachers could use, if they wished to do so, and this project gave me some great ideas!

This is a great article about conducting professional development workshops for teachers through PBL. Too often, as the article notes, professional development is delivered through direct instruction, but then those who put on the PD expect teachers to do things different in their own classrooms. PD specialists must model what they expect their students - which happen to be teachers - to do in their own classrooms.