…Charlotte VT, shared their journey towards authentic, meaningful, engaging project-based learning. The “Gold Standard” in project-based learning. At the 2019 Middle Grades Conference, they candidly talked about the successes and…
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…in project time. (13 minutes). Tools to help build structure and organize project time Use digital tool to organize the time: Create a padlet or slideshow for each project time…
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…the curriculum around project-based learning. This end-of-project reflection template shows how students set PLP goals at the beginning of the project and then provide evidence at the end of the…
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…notebook, or Word document. Project pages could be printed off and stapled, delivered to students, and used as a place to gather reflections and learning for the entire project. Also,…
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…arts standards, but in amplifying student voice in decision-making and educational conferences. Lastly, the Global Goals inspired service and project-based learning at Burke Town School. The school launched this project…
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…The Edge Academy at Essex Middle School, in Essex Junction VT, has been doing project-based learning alongside negotiated curriculum for the past six years. Facilitators Lindsey Halman and Phil Young…
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…about your project with Yasmine? Violet: Our project is a song based project. We’re writing a whole album of songs. We’re doing three covers, which, two of them are mash…
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…all know, this has to be deliberately built into the schedule. So, what can this look like? Here are 8 methods for reflection in project-based learning. Reflection in project and…
Read more…classroom. What is the Emergent Project Approach? Waspe and Griebling shared the two year development of a emergent project approach in a middle school classroom. Their model is based on…
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How much do you want to change the world? As project-based learning gives students a way to tackle authentic problems in the world and accomplish tangible change while learning, let’s…
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…Service Learning Project Planning Toolkit (.pdf)provided a framework for student-led community service. Image from the K-12 Service Learning Project Planning Toolkit. Used with permission. 5 stages of service learning…
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…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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…relevant and authentic problem-solving task with scientific inquiry and communication outcomes. It’s Project-Based Learning at its best. What makes project-based learning useful for young adolescents? One of the keys of…
Read more…why aren’t we using it more in education? Why aren’t we using it in project-based learning? Maybe we just need some ideas on how to use VR in education. So…
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…bedroom. Wait a minute, I thought, this would make an excellent PBL project! As my kids and their dad set about planning out each kid’s dream project (see: playhouse, pump…
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…to support PBL Project based learning in the primary grades Examples of Exciting PBL These stories describe some real-world examples of Project-Based Learning. Project-based learning: Extreme weather PBL unit How…
Read more…My colleagues and I maintained the creators’ vision while fitting the project to our school’s context. We launched the project by sharing video interviews with Curious Learners as well as…
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…action. What started with a guidance project that afforded students the opportunity to talk with Veterans during a breakfast at the school turned into the perfect passion project. The team…
Read moreUsing the Young Writers Project to teach writing There are so many reasons to appreciate how we teach adolescents to write in Vermont. One of these gifts is the resource…
Read more…start small and make it manageable. Let’s break it down. Getting started with project-based learning and grades K-3 1. Use this template (please make a copy!) to create outline your…
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Honor scholars with an authentic audience for their work The culminating event! It’s the lovely finish line of a Project-Based learning unit. The big event. You’ve been planning for months…
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…individual project interests based on these experiences. Based on this and the dotstorming work, students were placed into task forces to begin their Project for Hope. The project continues, with…
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…last year and I had no idea what I wanted to do for my year-long project. So my goal was to create a system for food-insecure families to have access…
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…when I actually turned in a poster project, Kaylee Vine announced to the whole class, “OH MY GOD, everyone. Zoey Albro turned in a project. Alert the authorities! The world…
Read more…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 Assessment in Project-Based Learning Culminating Events…
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…on project design, and on implementation. Here are her reflections on project design: Head over to her piece to read about the other reflection methods. Don’t go too far! Go…
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As Dorset’s coop dreams became a reality, students gathered new skills What does it look like to break one enormous project into several project-based learning units? For Dorset students to…
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…together around a creative engagement installation: the Sounding Board . Part of a broader Hazen Youth Voices Project — a collaborative initiative launched by the school’s Vermont Community Learning Network…
Read moreStart with the dramatic, unexpected & memorable Q: What do we really want from project-based learning? A: We want students to care about this subject. To really, truly care about…
Read more…Vermont news station WCAX. During the project, students referred back to this experience frequently. It gave them several things important to successful project-based learning: real-world relevance examples of careers models…
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…can see with project-based learning and service learning is that project-based learning can be a simulation. It can be this court case that you’re acting out. Or it can be…
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…project. They also wanted to help students make connections across content areas and with the community. Tyler Willis, the Humanities teacher, enrolled in a graduate course about project based learning….
Read more…the final product that has specific content elements about the project. Here’s a wonderful scale with current and positive “I can” language for a Social Studies sense of place project…
Read moreHow do you explain PBL to families? The popularity of Project-Based Learning (PBL) has grown significantly with teachers and students, but what about parents? When students walk out of school,…
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…experiences, set goals, and reflect on their learning all through the experience of a personal interest project — a project where students explored what they are passionate about. These core…
Read more…focus on a recess project to bring students together. The seed was planted Back at school, our morning meeting discussions began to center around project ideas. We decided that together…
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…if you have a project, or project-based learning approach. Project-based learning final product at Cabot School: evidence of learning, research, reflection, growth, creativity during the project. Is the project at…
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…asked what was engaging about the project, students said: “I liked how we were able to choose our own project, it wasn’t something assigned to you. It was completely our…
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…of the school’s focus on project-based learning. Project-based learning is a type of personalized learning that fuses student passions with concrete actions in the world. Students begin each project-based learning…
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…At the end of the project WeVideo released a new function that allows a user to download an audio only project. This may work just as well in the future,…
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…novels. Stay with us on this. In the 2nd of our three-part series looking at project-based learning with The Edge team at Essex Middle School, we talk to a novelist,…
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…it be cool if we started putting these back into the Flow Project?” It made so much sense, because we were talking about water in the Flow Project, and we’re…
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…offline, due to bandwidth or screen fatigue, Chrissy’s also created a slideshow of this project, where the resource links could be viewed separately or printed out. But taking the project…
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…grades PreK-6 and a host of compassionate and driven educators, Proctor Elementary has been busy! The school just finished a full year of implementing tech-rich, student-centered project-based learning and doing….
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…maintain the blog once or twice a week throughout the project. Students are often assigned posting topics at the start of the project, but ultimately take over all responsibility for…
Read more…created a documentary film about project-based learning in our school, and I loved doing that project. I got to be very creative. Because I got so excited about it, I…
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…agreements of the identity project was that every student would get feedback from at least one teacher. Many teams took this a step further and reviewed each student’s project together….
Read more…project showing our ideas on helping stop the heat island effect.” What was the most challenging part of this project? “The most challenging part of the project was, where I…
Read more…had been gently suggesting to my middle school team for some time, put the project at the front. The project should be the “main course”, not the “dessert”. I further…
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…a tendency to think, okay, kids need to do a research project or an inquiry project. And we try and do too much at once. Whereas, you know, we have…
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…term is to familiarize students with project-based learning by modeling what it is like to do a high quality project. Students from both advisories got to select one of the…
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…with this check in. Here are a few tools that support collaboration in remote project-based learning: Online doc and slideshow comments and revision history (project ideas here) A collaborative Padlet…
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…they both regard an iPad on a desk: Susan: Tell me a little bit about the project. Boy 1: So, this is the parks project, where we talk about how…
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…with students. Audrey: Were you interested in water law before you did this project? Andrew: No I was not. I really didn’t think about it until I did this project,…
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A tale of research-driven change Last year two educators at Crossett Brook Middle School undertook an amazing action research project that directly improved their interactions with students. Mollie Burke-Bendzunas, speech…
Read more…meaning of these important fair use concepts by creating their own video mash-up for an authentic class project. And thus evolved a collaborative project with Teresa Hawes, our middle school…
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…approaches around project-based learning, complements this idea of building peaks. The nature of project-based learning is that there’s some authenticity to the work, and hopefully some public performance and public…
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…their hands. Introducing roles for project work gives students specific direction for how to contribute effectively. One educator I know created specific well-defined roles for groups as they undertook project-based…
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…Will Be Graphic Organizers I never-endingly wrestle with our integrated studies endeavor at Flood Brook. We integrate science and social studies around compelling questions while employing a “project-based” approach, in…
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…Will Be Graphic Organizers I never-endingly wrestle with our integrated studies endeavor at Flood Brook. We integrate science and social studies around compelling questions while employing a “project-based” approach, in…
Read more…to service/project based learning. Dive deeper. My book, Change the World with Service Learning is loaded with resources, examples, project ideas and rubrics teachers can adapt and use right away….
Read moreWays to support project-based learning Some people have the mistaken idea that PBL is just when you point students in the direction of a project and say, “Go for it!”…
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How do project-based learning and makerspaces fit together? Making and PBL may look like two completely different educational movements, but in reality they work well together and each strengthens the…
Read moreLaunching a new project cycle with inspiration from the last one Organizing your realia — testimonials, storytelling and artifacts — from a round of projects can feel overwhelming. So much…
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