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Find that mind-igniting project

 

The right project can transform learning for your students. But how do you find that mind-igniting project idea? And in our new reality, how do you make it work for remote learning?

From years of experience with PBL – along with some continued learning ourselves this year – we've been digging into both of these questions. Here are tips to keep you moving in the right direction...

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Step 1: Find Great Project Ideas

One of the easiest ways to get started with PBL planning – search the project library! With over 70 standards-aligned project ideas in our library, it's easy to search by grade level or subject and find what you're looking for.

You might explore our projects for remote learning – a growing cache of resources for this new context. Plus, check out the family-friendly project ideas in This Teachable Moment that many teachers are customizing for their classrooms.

Most importantly, keep your students in mind as you search. Consider how a project's topic, content, and skills would connect with the learners in your classroom. You know your students best!

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Step 2: Adapt a Project for Remote or Hybrid Learning

All the best-laid plans for projects are being adjusted this year with remote and hybrid learning in mind. Making the shift requires some creativity and often a few tech tools. But the results are exciting; students are eager and capable of diving into PBL in new ways.

So how do you get started adapting your project? Focus on each of the four phases of your project, one at a time. At each phase, consider: How will you and your students engage, share, and collaborate? What are the new structures or tools you'll need to succeed in this new context? (Tomorrow, we'll share some of our staff picks for tech tools that you might consider using.)

There's a great real-life example of this process in our webinar "How to Adapt a Gold Standard Project for Online Learning" – also available as an overview on our blog. In it, we walk through how to adapt the details of a 5th grade English/Language Arts project. It's a great way to see and hear this process in action!