Project-based learning: Extreme weather PBL unit
This is Real World PBL Now we’ve been down the PBL highway, looking at PBL planning, entry events, supports for PBL, culminating events, and technology tools. It’s time to examine…
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Introducing our new Project Based Learning toolkit
…a PBL unit Getting on the PBL highway Real–world problems and project-based learning General PBL Planning Template 4 ideas for using a makerspace to support PBL Project based learning in…
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Project-Based Learning
…and implement PBL in your classroom. Planning a PBL unit Getting on the PBL highway Real–world problems and project-based learning General PBL Planning Template 4 ideas for using a makerspace…
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Real-world problems and project-based learning
…the Project-Based Learning approach (PBL) is to engage students in solving real–world problems. Ideally, students are involved in exploring relevant and authentic challenges in their community, state, nation, or world….
Read morePlanning a PBL unit
…for students to solve. Good questions, according to this post: Tie into learning standards; Address a real–world problem that relates to the students’ experiences and community; Inspire students to find…
Read moreProject-Based Learning in the primary grades
…project. Fill in all that you can. The most important thing about primary PBL, though, is to… 2. Start simple. Try converting a favorite unit into PBL. What I mean…
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Project-based learning and math
…for a PBL approach, I would suggest looking at the following resources: PBL Planning Forms – Buck Institute Resources and Tools for PBL Start to Finish – Edutopia PBL Project…
Read moreProject-based learning (PBL)
…home Real World: Cabot 5 lessons learned from an integrated middle school PBL unit Evolving student roles in a big (BIG) PBL project Developing empathy for your community Using student…
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The great Brian Eno-powered STEAM PBL caper
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…educator Michael Hendrix. We hear about what it takes to pull off STEAM-powered PBL and why Hendrix feels you can’t ever really teach science without art. A full transcript appears…
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How do you measure success with project-based learning?
…wasn’t PBL. We learned and said, “Oh, maybe we’ve got to go back and do a little bit of analysis for ourselves of what project-based learning is.” Reflections on PBL…
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Randolph students turn digital audio producers with PBL
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…he makes kind of trance-y song. It makes you, like, get upbeat but it’s kind of like you’re lost in the world. That’s what I’m working on right now. And…
Read more4 ways to use Virtual Reality in project-based learning
…they’ve learned through PBL? Bringing VR and PBL full circle, y’all. But most of all: combine virtual reality with PBL best practices Virtual reality is just one new tool for…
Read moreEntry events for project-based learning
…green screen under the tutelage of WCAX meteorologist Gary Sadowsky. Field trips can be real world or virtual There are so many thought-provoking videos now on YouTube and TeacherTube that…
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Connecting students to community in the Northeast Kingdom
…doing connected to the real world. We took a step back and came up with 4 slices to our loaf. We started by having students doing collaboration activities which helped…
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Culturally Responsive Instruction and Assessment
…this work is critical-problem based learning (Critical-PBL), as explored by Caires-Hurley, Jimenez-Silva, and Harrington. Critical-PBL uses four pillars to move students toward action for a more socially just world: Standards…
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Evolving student roles in a big (BIG) PBL project
…grades how they could get involved with the exciting chicken project. These are incredibly useful real–world skills that don’t often come to the fore in traditional in-classroom work. But we…
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Robotics, PBL, and collaboration
…Picture model within South Burlington High School. Big Picture is all about authentic real–world learning, and this group of students had chosen to enter the ChampBot Challenge at the Champlain…
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4 ways to make math more relevant
…made-up apples, fishes or shoes. Let’s tie math to the real world: real problems for students to solve, what’s going on around them, and how students learn. If you’re trying…
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#vted Reads: The Power of Moments, with Rachel Mark
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…find meaning for your work, you cultivate that purpose. Jeanie: It makes me think about relevance, about making learning more relevant either to the real world or to kids’ lives….
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Read moreHow to tell your PBL story
…revised, fundraised — deep breath — organized, built and managed. But then they taught themselves how to share their story: with social media, and with a whole world of educators,…
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Confronting climate change in the classroom
…you can use the Global Goals: Go global with your PBL How students can make global connections How to make real, sustainable change in the Northeast Kingdom 4 ways students…
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Sixth Graders Revamp Lyndonville
…holy grail of education, and one of the main reasons why PBL is such a powerful, research-based pedagogy. As put by Temperance, a sixth grade student, “This was the most…
Read moreService Learning 101: a guide for busy teachers
…with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience; a method of teaching/learning that challenges students to identify, research, propose, and implement solutions to real needs in their school community…
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Project-based learning at home
…need to evaluate and write our mental note-to-self. To let our experience sink in. If Dewey is right (and I believe he is) it is both these real–world pandemic projects…
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Sharing STEAM projects with families
…towards real–world problems while building on their MATHEMATICS and SCIENCE BASE. click to enlarge Families and community members milled through Proctor Elementary’s light-filled hallways, enjoying the early evening June…
Read more5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
…collaboratively construct a solution over an extended period of time. They wrap it up by presenting it to real–world stakeholders. We’ve got a PBL tool kit for you about this…
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Hack your classroom: flexible physical learning environments
…makes the entire world — not just school — more rife with learning opportunities. “We’re just unimaginably more connected to the world around us,” says Lilly, a student at Burlington…
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Student TED Talks, sound sculptures and a funk band
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…organization conceived of TED Talks as short, powerful ways to spread ideas with real–world relevance and global significance. The idea is for speakers to present great, well-formed ideas in under…
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Ottauquechee’s Diversity Detectives in:
…based on the students’ research. Conversations around inclusion and diversity will have real–world relevance in Ottauquechee. They will shape the library collection, and hopefully extend to other areas of students’…
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#vted Reads about PBIS
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…justice education fits in, right? Kids having a real role in the world. And so I’m wondering if you see any contradictions between PBIS and flexible pathways. Thomas: Oh absolutely….
Read moreThe PBL Highway
…learn at their pace… Planning a PBL unit Entry events for project-based learning Brainstorming and Research in PBL Scaffolds to support PBL learners 8 methods for reflection in project-based learning…
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Real World: Cabot
…between students, staff and the community that come into the school for events. How could you see using PBL to help your students explore the value of their life experiences?…
Read moreT is for Timelines
…families in collaborating on projects with real–world meaningfulness. Involve students in planning for 1:1 rollouts. Serve as advisers to them as they plan out their first student-led conferences. Check out…
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Developing integrated units from commercial curriculum
…see about their connections to the real world? How was student engagement? How did YOU feel throughout the process of teaching the unit? What might you change next time? All…
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How to throw culminating events — online!
…in their PBL projects to share with the wider world. The culminating event can include the act of sharing that creation. These can include educational YouTube videos, online maps, blog…
Read moreMeaningful Instruction
…and problem solving: “use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real–world and mathematical problems” ( CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3 ); and “generate and critically evaluate a variety of solutions” (from the Transferable Skills)….
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