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Project-Based Learning Through a Making Lens

Supercharge your project-based learning with some help from the Maker Movement.

School Admins: SAMR Tools for Staff Presentations

Have you heard about SAMR? Learn how you can use this tech integration model for your staff presentations.

Nurturing Intrinsic Motivation and Growth Mindset in Writing

Here are some tactical tips to engage and inspire even the most resistant of budding writers.

The 5 Keys to Project-Based Learning

How do you implement rigorous PBL? This suite of videos shows specific approaches -- and research -- to engage students and deepen their learning.

Got PBL?

Here is a world of ideas for project-based learning activities for you to steal and customize for your own.
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Service Learning
The Happy Eating Place: How Elementary Students Can Run Their Own Business

By Whitney Walker

Fourth and fifth graders develop a service learning project that prepares meals for their school community and donates the proceeds to a county food bank.

Creativity
Bored? Good, You'll Be More Creative

By Ainissa Ramirez

Nobody likes boredom, yet research has shown that restless, wandering minds are capable of greater creativity than those bombarded by data and enmeshed in multitasking.

Differentiated Instruction
3 Ways to Plan for Diverse Learners: What Teachers Do

By John McCarthy

Teachers aiming to differentiate learning in their classroom can focus on content, process, and product in giving students opportunities to grow and shine as individuals.

Project-Based Learning
Roller Coaster Middle School: How One Kid's Crazy Idea Took PBL to Thrilling New Heights

By Will Pemble

Will Pemble became CoasterDad when his son's backyard roller coaster idea turned into a massive PBL project integrating math, physics, and 21st century skills.

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How the Maker Movement Connects Students to Engineering and Technology

Maker Education
How the Maker Movement Connects Students to Engineering and Tech

Eighth-grader Quin uses his passion for electronics to teach fellow students about 3D printing, arduinos, and other hands-on lessons in STEM skills.

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Flipped Classroom
4 Tips for Flipped Learning

By Joe Hirsch

The core of a successful flipped learning program is customized, watchable, functional video. Here are four tips for creating and integrating high-quality video content.

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Maker Education
The DIY World of Maker Tools and Their Uses

By Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher

From new technology to everyday materials to rebooting school woodshop and home ec classes, makerspaces challenge students to open their minds and expand their skillsets.

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Professional Development
Top 12 Summer Tips for Top Teachers

By Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher

For top teachers, the list of 12 tips for maximizing your summer vacation includes reflecting, connecting, laughing, and coming out swinging in September.

8 1 36,674 views

Differentiated Instruction
Myth-Busting Differentiated Instruction: 3 Myths and 3 Truths

By John McCarthy

With delivery of instruction, one size does not fit all. John McCarthy launches his differentiated instruction series by busting three common myths about DI.

12 4 31,474 views

PBL Planning
A World of Project Ideas (You Can Steal)

By Suzie Boss

To get off to a flying start planning this summer, borrow good project ideas from other teachers and adapt them to fit your context.

8 1 23,291 views

Coding in the Classroom
Coding for Kindergarteners

By Sam Patterson

Teaching young children to code is far from a tedious exercise with the thoughtful, age-appropriate use of game-like apps and robotic devices.

7 1 18,864 views

Literacy
Why Storytelling in the Classroom Matters

By Matthew James Friday

Teachers, by their nature, are storytellers. You can improve this skillset with seven steps for engaging younger students through narrative.

8 653 18,218 views
Five Keys to Rigorous Project-Based Learning

Project-Based Learning
Five Keys to Rigorous Project-Based Learning

Well-designed project-based learning (PBL) has been shown to result in deeper learning and engaged, self-directed learners. Learn more about the five core elements of successful PBL.

10 1 16,832 views

Literacy
When High School Students Struggle with Textbook Reading

By Sheila Valencia

Many textbooks aren't even close to authentic reading experiences. Minimize student struggle by identifying purpose, assigning reasonable homework, and teaching them to self-monitor for understanding.

13 1 13,240 views

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