Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects.
Maybe you’ve heard of Project Based Learning, but haven’t tried it yet. Here are 8 ways for teachers to get started - from great reads, to sample projects and tools, to PBL workshops.
We believe Project Based Learning is transformative, providing students with real-world challenges and meaningful experiences that lead to deep and long lasting learning.
Project Based Learning for all. We build the capacity of teachers and school leaders to design and facilitate quality Project Based Learning.
See our book Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning for more on the what, why and how of Project Based Learning. Check out the Project Design Rubric to get a detailed description of what each of the Seven Essential Project Design Elements looks like. Read the white paper about Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design Elements.
In Project Based Learning, the project itself is used to teach rigorous academic content and success skills. Students work to answer an important question—such as “How can we impact hunger in our community?” By exploring the question over a couple weeks or longer, students become immersed in it, pursuing answers from various angles.
Explore how Project Based Learning builds literacy skills, critical thinking, and student voice through authentic, real-world projects.
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Research on Project-Based Learning Research on Project-Based Learning can take undertaken in order to (a) make judgments about evaluation), (b) assess or describe the degree enactment of Project-Based Learning (formative characteristic factors in PBL effectiveness or (d) test some proposed feature or modification research).