A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented project-based learning is meaningful in both ways. The authors have identified seven essential elements of meaningful projects - very clear, concise article.
Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.
The projects you will find here have been curated by BIE and were gathered from online project libraries. These projects are meant to inspire your own ideas or may be adapted to fit the needs of your classroom.
As a result of the Arizona Teach 21 Course, and the Project Based Learning Course, the teachers of Cave Creek Unified School District have shared their unit plans/lesson plans for the global community
Project-Based Learning: A Parent Primer
Creating a symbaloo page of resources around PBL for parents might be a good idea. This site might get us started.
The core idea of project-based learning is that real-world problems capture students' interest and provoke serious thinking as the students acquire and apply new knowledge in a problem-solving context. This article examines the research behind PBL.