Digital Age PBL

High Tech High is a non-profit organization developing public schools in communities across California. This page showcases many of their PBL's, and is a great place to get some ideas.

High Tech High is a non-profit organization developing public schools in communities across California. Many of their projects are posted at this website.

In January I had a chance to attend a conference with many teachers from High Tech High. I am planning to do a site visit when I go to San Diego in October.

One of the project ideas I came across on the BIE website. The exploration of biomes works well with our ecosystems unit.

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.

Our Mathematical Adventure Inspired by the Number Devil: Imagine Jason, a struggling math student in the midst of summer school, getting swooped away to learn about the coordinate plane from a Pablo Picasso painting. Or Mohammed, a young boy who finds a golden canteen which, when rubbed, brings forth the Number Genie who takes him on a mathematical adventure around the world.

A Gardener's Dilemma Project Idea: Students act as community members and set aside plots of land for local citizens to establish small gardens.Students will design a plan for a family garden plot. I will adapt this PBL to include technology, ELA, Science and of course, Mathematics for elementary students. I like that it is a real-world skill, affecting everyone and involves community planning.

Although this project was created for a specific area in California, I feel that I could use the foundation and create a PBL unit that would involve a problem that my students and I have noticed on the shorelines near to the airbase here.

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?

Can we overcome racism? That is the driving question of this PBL. I am considering a similar driving question (maybe!), and this PBL offered a solid start for me to better understand PBLs.

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?

Although this project was created using the old PBL standard the basic components of civic responsibility for second graders can be applied to professional responsibility for respiratory therapy students. The project provides a useful template from which to build my grade and content specific content for improving safety in healthcare. The projects involves: Second graders are ready to conquer the world-and they can start with their community. In Make a Difference: Civic Responsibility, elementary school students partner with local organizations to fill a real need, help a specific population, engage in public service, and make a tangible difference in their neighborhoods and beyond.

I found this PBL project on BIE.org and it is titled "Special Diets". This mathematical group project has the students research specific nutritional diets with patients of certain illnesses. The students will use systems of equations and inequalities to create a presentation for a doctor suggesting nutrition requirements of patients with illnesses. This is a great idea for PBL in a math class!

"https://youtu.be/kMIslolwzCs"

Provides great instructional strategies for different types of differentiation in PBL.

Great ideas on effectively keeping the students engaged and on task.