Project-Based Learning

Project-based learning is a dynamic classroom approach in which students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire a deeper knowledge.

Place-Based Learning
A Place-Based Approach to PBL
A veteran teacher and author discusses how to bring fieldwork into your project-based learning curriculum.
Project-Based Learning
Time Management With PBL
Tips on integrating project-based learning into your curriculum—even in shorter class periods.
Project-Based Learning
Junior Historians at Work
A fourth-grade teacher shares a project-based learning unit that incorporates social studies, literacy, math, and 21st-century skills.
Project-Based Learning
Bringing Social Studies to Life with PBL
A teacher transforms her third-grade unit on Native Americans into a semester-long project-based learning unit.
PBL Planning
21st-Century Learning Starting in Elementary School
A group of Georgia schools work together to emphasize project-based learning and a STEM curriculum.
PBL Assessment
Standards-Based Assessment in PBL
Incorporating standards-based grading into project-based learning is a challenge, but these four practices will help you get started.
Project-Based Learning
Ensuring That PBL Is Accessible to All
Planning project-based learning around three core strategies helps all students get what they need.
PBL Planning
Planning for PBL Implementation
Project-based learning can be messy, but planning to have student inquiry lead your instruction can make it an orderly mess.
Project-Based Learning
Project Management for Middle School
How one middle school teacher guides his students to managing their project-based learning groups like pros.
Maker Education
A Makerspace Built by Elementary Students
Third graders designed a makerspace for their school. Then they got their budget approved and built it.