Starting the School Year with PBL
It's that time of year! With a hint of autumn in the air, the Back to School season has already begun. Are you ready to dive into Project Based Learning with your students this season?
Here are a few tips to start the new school year...
How-to Tips and Tools
How to Begin Building a PBL Culture Right from the Start
Ideas for developing relationships, co-creating norms, practicing protocols and establishing routines, and designing a classroom conducive to PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
How to Get Started Planning a Full Year of PBL
A middle school teacher explains how she uses her curriculum as more than just a checklist, by combining literacy goals with concepts from other subjects in her projects.
How-to Tips and Tools
3 Routines & Protocols to Help Your Students Start the Year Ready for PBL
A high school teacher explains how she scaffolds students’ academic conversations, collaboration skills, and understanding of “productive struggle.”
How-to Tips and Tools
How to Adapt a Project to Fit Your Students & Make It Gold Standard PBL
Many resources are available now to help jump-start a teacher’s practice of PBL, but how do you know if they’re good? PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer offers 10 questions to consider when choosing a project to adapt.
General PBL
How to Prepare Students for PBL
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer shares tips and resources for starting the school year with students who are new to PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
A Thoughtful Yearlong Plan Leads to Cross-Curricular PBL Success
An elementary school teacher tells how she starts with the standards, connects subject areas, and collaborates with colleagues to map out interdisciplinary PBL units for the year.
How-to Tips and Tools
Start the Year with a Project, or Build Skills First?
What to consider before launching the first project in the school year, and how to build students’ skills to prepare them for PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
Stoking the Culture for PBL: Using Icebreakers & Energizers to Engage ALL Learners
A principal in a low-income community explains how his school meets students’ emotional needs using "Stoke Deck" activities from Stanford's d.school.