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Project-Based Learning
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development (ASCD)"ASCD offers books focusing on literacy strategies in reading and mathematics. The PD Online course Successful Strategies for Literacy and Learning explains why it's important to teach students how to read, write, and comprehend different subject matter."
Buck Institute for Education"The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) is a non profit research and development organization working to make schools and classrooms more effective through the use of problem and project based learning. BIE creates curriculum and training materials, provides professional development, and conducts and disseminates research. BIE has developed a specific PBL model which draws on: the experiences of teachers who successfully use PBL in their classrooms, recent research on student learning, and instructional models that incorporate authentic assessments, community-based education, service-learning, internships, or career academy curriculum."
Camp PBLBuddy2 Teaching and Learning Center presents Camp PBL, a series of workshops that focus on how project-based learning (PBL) transforms teaching. Integrating technology throughout the experience, the curriculum address topics such as planning, implementing, and assessing PBL in the classroom. Participation grants are available.
Center for Problem Based Learning: IMSA"The mission of IMSA is to ignite and nurture creative, ethical scientific minds that advance the human condition.
Students gather and apply knowledge from multiple disciplines in their quest for solutions. Guided by teachers acting as cognitive coaches, problem-based learning enables students to embrace complexity, find relevance and joy in their learning, and enhance their capacity for creative and responsible real-world problem-solving."
Experimental Game Play ProjectStarting with four graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University, the Experimental Game Play project has grown into a forum for creative thinkers to post their ingenius game ideas. This is a great tool to encourage students to develop new ideas!
George Lucas Educational Foundation"The George Lucas Educational Foundation online site publishes the stories of innovative K-12 teaching and learning through a variety of media -- a magazine, vdieos, e-newsletters, DVDs, books, and this Web site. Here, you'll find detailed articles, in-depth case studies, research summaries, short documentary segments, expert interviews, and links to hundreds of relevant resources."
Global Schoolnet Foundation: What is Project Based Learning?This site offers PBL:
Definitions, pedagogy, examples, success stories, and resources.
Houghton Mifflin's Project-Based Learning SpaceThis site is a basic resource and comprehensive tool to understanding PBL. Within its framework students collaborate, working together to make sense of what is going on. The site offers projects, theories, definitions, and references for PBL."
Literacy Assistance CenterThe site provides the following for PBL: An Introduction to Project-Based Learning
The Potential of Project-Based Learning
Examples of Projects Using Technology
Common Phases or Steps in Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning Resources
Project-Based Learning Worksheet (PDF)
Publications
Workshops
Lesson Plans
Maricopa Center for Learning & InstructionThe site provides examples of the materials they have developed for problem-based learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges including projects, publications, and presentations.
PBLnet"PBLnet works to empower individuals, organizations and businesses by providing unique up-to-date information. They specialize in Professional Development , Executive Coaching , Pbl Exemplary Projects , Leadership Training , Student Learning Center and an array of other products and services."
Problem Based Learning Initiative: SIU"The application of PBL at Southern Illinois University is seen in the Problem-Based Learning Curriculum of the medical school and in the Physician Assistant Program.
Although many of the sections in this web site describe patient problems and PBL learning and assessment processes in medicine, they can be seen as examples of PBL as an educational process for teachers outside of medicine. The intent of the PBLI is to help you design problems in your area and apply PBL in your teaching programs.
The bibliography contains article and books concerning PBL in general."
Project Based Learning Online Resource"Project Based Learning-Online is a one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You'll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students. You can: Learn how to design your project; Search for projects developed by others; Learn important strategies; Learn what defines Project Based Learning; Review research and find web resources; and purchase the BIE Project Based Learning Handbook."
Project-Based Learning Clearinghouse"The PBL Clearinghouse is a collection of problems and articles to assist educators in using problem-based learning. The problems and articles are peer reviewed by PBL experts in the disciplinary content areas. Teaching notes and supplemental materials accompany each problem, providing insights and strategies that are innovative and classroom-tested."
Star Center -- "Criteria for Authentic Project-Based Learning"This Site offers PBL: Standards Based Instructions Sample Lessones, Design Your Own Lesson, Assessment, Lesson Bank, Texas State Standards, Success Stories, and Credits & Contacts
Sylvia Chard -- The Project Approach "The purpose of this web site is to provide readers with resources to enable them to carry out projects wherever they may work with children.
The site is intended to make available some accounts of successful projects undertaken by teachers working with children of different ages and cultures in different parts of the world.
The site also offers more formal means of study of the Project Approach through accompanying online courses for teachers.
Finally the site serves as a starting point for discussions on the Project Approach by providing links or access to a variety of listservs (mailing lists), web-based conferences and similar organizations."
The Question Mark"An educational journal devoted to questions,
questioning, sound intelligence, strategic reading
and quality teaching."
The Virtual School House"The Virtual Schoolhouse is a compendium of project-based learning practices from across the country. The purpose of the site is to provide a window into exemplary work with tools and advice to help individuals make project-based learning part of their own practice. The site allows you to explore exemplary student work so that you can visualize how these concepts translate into work in the classroom as well it provides samples of student work in audio and still images that capture the breadth, depth, and power of students' efforts."
The WEB Project"The WEB Project is a non-profit organization devoted to innovative, project-based learning in the arts, humanities, and social sciences by people of all ages. Their site includes the following resources: Collaborative online learning; Applied learning; and Engaging community projects."
University of Delaware: Problem Based LearningThis site offers: UD PBL articles and books
UD PBL in the news
Sample PBL problems
UD PBL courses and syllabi
PBL Clearinghouse
PBL Conferences and
Other PBL sites
Institute for Transforming
Undergraduate Education
Pan-American Network for PBL
Other related UD sites
www4teachers -- "Project-Based Learning: What is it?""To help individuals start using PBL, this site has created age-appropriate, customizable project checklists for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects. The use of these checklists keeps students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation. The site provides checklists in both English and Spanish."
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Readings for Problem Solving Learning
Barrows, H. (1996). The Problem in Problem-Based Learning. Consortium Update. Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1-7.
Coleman, W. (1999). Self-Directed Problem-Based Learning in Mainstream Undergraduate Courses. PBL Insight (Newsletter for Undergraduate Problem-Based Learning from Samford University) Vol. 2, No. 3.
Gallagher, S. A. (1997). Problem-Based Learning: Where Did it Come From, What Does it Do, And Where is it Going? Journal for the Education of the Gifted, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp.332-362.
Gamson, Z. (1994). Collaborative Learning Comes of Age. Change. pp. 44-49.
Heckman, P. (1994).Planting Seeds: Understanding Through Investigation. Educational Leadership. pp. 36-39.
Heckman, P., Confer C. & Peacock, J. (1994) “Democracy in a Multicultural School and Community.” Educational Leadership.
Mierson, S. (2000). Stories From the Field: Problem-Based Learning From a Teacher’s and a Student’s Perspective. Change. pp. 21-27.
Schon, D. (1995) “The New Scholarship Requires a New Epistemology” Change November/December.
Torp & Sage (2002). Problems as Possibilities: Problem-Based Learning for K-16 Education, 2nd Edition.
Chapter 1: What Does Problem-Based Learning Look Like in Classrooms? pp. 5-13.
Chapter 2: What is Problem-Based Learning? pp. 14-28.
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