Does PBL work?

PBL-Managing Your Project - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This infographic was created to highlight the main points from Chapter 8 of the book PBL in the Elementary Grades: Step-by-Step Guidance, Tools and Tips for Standards-Focused K-5 Projects, which was written by the Buck Institute for Education.

Edutopia blogger Andrew Miller shares how PBL can serve as a dynamic context for arts integration.

Project-based learning can be a fantastic way for kids to get engaged in hands-on, active learning. Here's how parents can encourage and support their children -- and their children's school -- in project-based learning.

It's time again! Today only, we're giving away another LifePractice PBL card, this time from one of my favorite sets, Set 6. The card is called, Pandemic! where students are challenged to predict and stop the world's next catastrophic disease. I'm excited about this card because, like all great Project Based Learning, it's rooted in…

Teacher-friends of mine have likely done a HUGE double-take on this title. You see, I've been a pretty loud advocate for differentiated instruction and have led a good number of trainings on the concept and approaches for the past 12+ years. However, in the past 7 years, I've been quietly moving beyond it, embracing a…

I often receive questions from teachers and administrators about all facets of Project Based Learning process, but especially about my insistence they allow (encourage) students to publish their work online. Just a couple days ago, I received another: "Ginger, why would I want to have my kids' work published online? What if people see it?…

Cody discusses Project Based Learning with Ginger Lewman, PBL and technology integration specialist at ESSDACK. PBL is a subject Cody is[...]

Do you just learn about the properties of different shapes or do you explore how different shapes fit into a space more efficiently and how this can impact design?

A comparison of the same question/response from inside a traditional and a democratically-guided Project Based Learning classroom environment. This flowchart is a complete illustration of what most great teachers consider -- all in about .5 seconds -- when a student of any age asks them if they can have permission go to the bathroom. I…

I'm so proud of the teachers who are learning and honing the skills it takes to run a PBL classroom full-time. Much of PBL antithetical to most of what we're taught in our pre-service programs to do with students in the classroom. It's not easy to unlearn so much of what we've been taught to…

I have the best job in the world. On a regular basis, I'm given the extraordinary fortune to talk with teachers who are embarking on a PBL journey with their students. To dig into the smaller, everyday details of how to make this type of learning environment work. To answer the tough questions about sustainability,…

What's more exciting than daydreaming about finding buried treasure on ancient shipwrecks? What if we asked students to imagine themselves discovering the secrets held inside ancient Greek and Roman shipwrecks? Imagine hunting for them, deep in the murky depths of the Black Sea as the lights from our high-tech, submersible, underwater vehicles sweep left and…

Dr. Yong Zhao addresses ISTE 2012 attendees on the topic of " Global, Creative, and Entrepreneurial: Defining High-Quality Education." How do you prepare stu...

It's back to school time again, so I thought I might share one of the frequently asked questions I get in many of my workshops. The question usually goes something like this: My incoming students don't know about PBL or working in that type of environment. They come to me with poor work habits and they're…

As I reflect on the past 19+ years of my experience as an educator, and of the many years before that as a student, I think I'm finally able to make some calls. To act as an umpire and begin to call 'em as I see 'em. And one of those calls today is that…

Today's Free LifePractice PBL card is a special one for my co-creator, Kevin Honeycutt. He dreamed this project and started running it with kids back in the mid 2000's, across several schools at the same time. Get this card! The F117 Project In this project, kids at three different schools were challenged to build a…