What is PBL?
Project Based Learning (PBL) is an instructional strategy that enables students to learn meaningful content and practice skills needed for 21st century success. If we are serious about reaching 21st century educational goals,…
Does PBL Work?
There is forty years of accumulated evidence that the instructional strategies and procedures that make up standards-focused Project Based Learning are effective in building deep content understanding, raising academic achievement and encouraging…
What do students say?
“It really, actually changed my life.”
High school students reflect on their experience of project based learning and describe how they not only learned a great deal of content, but also practiced the 21st century skills needed for personal and workplace success. [Time: 4:00]
What does PBL look like?
The Gender Project: Overview
Middle school students at the Greater Brunswick Charter School in New Jersey complete an interdisciplinary project about gender roles combining Language Arts, History, Biology, and Media Literacy. [Time: 8:56]
21st Century Skills
21st Century Skills Culture
Students at High Tech High use creative thinking and collaborative work to connect the classroom with the real world while developing 21st Century skills in mixed ability teams. [Time: 6:25]
How to do PBL
Teachers Learn Through Modeling
An Indiana Education Consortium conducts 3 days of professional development workshops where PBL coaches model best practices. [Time: 3:13]
Cool Tools
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PBL Handbook ($35)
The purpose of the PBL Handbook is to guide teachers through all phases of successful PBL, from deciding on a project theme to reflecting on the outcomes of a project.
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PBL Starter Kit ($24)
The PBL Starter Kit is designed to provide easy to read, brief and to-the-point advice about your first project, and some tools to help you do it well.
