Project-Based Learning (PBL)

One way to help students master skills is to let them cultivate their own English language arts content to explore. Here’s how.

Project-based learning and an apprenticeship model helped garner community support when students decided to open a rural county’s first recycling center.

Combining several content areas can guide students to develop a deep understanding of how climate change affects them and their community.

People, places, and problems offer rich opportunities for real-world learning. This unit design framework ensures engaging, aligned learning objectives, experiences, and assessments.

Elementary students need rich content knowledge to become better readers and to be able to engage in project-based learning.

Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.

Project-based learning often culminates in a presentation for an audience beyond the classroom, and students need a lot of practice to be successful.

One school used a PBL unit that combined science, math, and cooking dumplings to explore the many cultures that make up their community.

When high school students present a lesson, they actively engage in learning and grow their research, organizational, and speaking skills.

Reflecting on learning and student voice and choice are core elements of project-based learning, and they’re also key to differentiation.

Taking students’ interests into account when designing project-based learning helps ensure that they stay engaged throughout the unit.

High school students have good ideas about how school can better serve learners, as the winners of a national challenge show.

The open-ended work in project-based learning can help students explore issues that matter to them.

Project-based learning allows very young students to explore, research, and grow their knowledge. Presenting their work to the community validates their efforts.