Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem, or challenge. Essential Elements of PBL include:
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Incase our textbook does not give enough information about project based learning, here is a website that will describe what PBL is and how to apply it to your classroom
This site provides a great summary of PBL, as well as informing the teacher why they should use PBL in the classroom. It is very thorough, and it provides external resources.
Are you looking for standards-aligned electronic learning resources to help your students? Here, you can find free Educational Resources, reviews of Online Courses, and commercial Electronic Learning Resources.
I chose this resource for chapter 8 because on this site you can browse resources by subject area and grade level and read summaries and reviews by educators. This website is helpful when finding and evaluating software applications for a classroom.
Below is a complete list and summary of each of the activity ideas that are featured in Playing to Learn. The full book descriptions for these activities include: 1) introductory information that sets up the context of each activity; 2) step-by-step instructions on leading each activity in class; and 3) extension and modification ideas for adapting each activity.
Having a copy of digital learning standards that presents them in a way that is easy to understand as well as broken down into understandable chunks will help as we work through digital portfolios and their relevance in a 21st century classroom.
Great source for finding the best educational apps for use in the classroom. It breaks them into different grade levels if you want and then provides a short summary of what the app is all about and why it is such a great app to use in the classroom.
This website provides ten different ideas for video projects that teachers can assign to their students. It provides an example video for each idea and explains how to do these videos and why they are beneficial.