PBL Resources
The Buck Institute
-Project Search
PBL Checklists
West Virginia Dept. of Ed PBL Tools
Learning Reviews-This website offers project based learning ideas with all grade levels and content areas.
PBL Language Arts Ideas
PBL Science Ideas
PBL Math Ideas
PBL Social Studies Ideas
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
Book trailers are an excellent way for students to present their PBL projects. Click HERE to find numerous resources on how to create book trailers, assessment rubrics, student examples, etc.
Here is another source of student book trailer examples.
-Project Search
PBL Checklists
West Virginia Dept. of Ed PBL Tools
Learning Reviews-This website offers project based learning ideas with all grade levels and content areas.
PBL Language Arts Ideas
PBL Science Ideas
PBL Math Ideas
PBL Social Studies Ideas
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
Book trailers are an excellent way for students to present their PBL projects. Click HERE to find numerous resources on how to create book trailers, assessment rubrics, student examples, etc.
Here is another source of student book trailer examples.
Reading and writing Resources
Use the resources below to help you find texts and other media to use during your LDC modules.
All Content Areas
Readability- This is a free service in which you can insert text to determine teh readability level (Lexile) through five different formulas.
VideoNotes- Allows students to view YouTube, Coursera, Khan Academy, Udacity, edX, and Vimeo videos and take notes as they watch. The notes are automatically save to Google Drive.
Americal Association of School Libraries (AASL) Best Websites- The 2014 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)- This is an online collection of millions of photographs, maps, sounds, manuscripts, books, and are accessible anytime, anywhere, for anyone.
Pro-Con- This page promotes critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.
NY Times Learning Network- This website offers teachers, students, and parents stories ripped from the headlines of the New York Times and turned into standards-aligned lesson plans written by teachers.
Library of Congress- The LOC is said to have at least one of everything. LOC has collected many resources for teachers on one page.
PBL Learning Media- This site offers free access (by registration to K-12 educators) to thousands of resources through PBS Learning Media.
Smithsonian- The Smithsonian Institute offers a website for educators, students, and parents with a variety of Common Core aligned educational resources.
Thinkfinity- The Verizon Foundation brings together several government and association sites so that visitors can search multiple resource database at once.
Scholastic- Teachers can search grade-specific lesson plans and extension activities, or visit the site's video section to access professional development materials, view book trailers and talks, and their their students on virtual field trips.
NewsELA- This is free for students to explore a world of nonfiction and test their comprehension. Updated daily with real-world new from major publications, students can participate in conversation about the most urgent topics of our time, all while becoming stronger readers.
Science Resources
The Why Files- Each week, the Why Files bring you a new story on the science behind the news.
Science Buddies- This site provides teachers with everything they need to assign, manage, and evaluate a science project program in the classroom.
World Fact Book- The CIA World Fact Book offers data about almost every country on Earth, updated by the CIA on a weekly basis.
NASA- NASA offers many educational resources for teachers in STEM and other science content areas.
National Geographic- Teachers can find lessons and activities with several filters, themed collections by grade, mapping, multimedia, and more.
Bozeman Science- Videos pertaining to most topics in high school science.
Science Articles by Lexile Level
English Language Arts Resources
Media History Digital Library- The MHDL is a collection of resources providing online access to the history of movies, broadcasting, and sound recording.
ReadWriteThink- Centering on literacy, the site's classroom resources offer lesson plans, student interactives, calendar activities, printouts, and podcasts, all organized by grade level.
Social Studies Resources
Media History Digital Library- The MHDL is a collection of resources providing online access to the history of movies, broadcasting, and sound recording.
World Fact Book- The CIA World Fact Book offers data about almost every country on Earth, updated by the CIA on a weekly basis.
Stanford History Education Group- This site offers history articles and US and World History lessons.
iCivics- These are free online resources created by Sandra Day O'Connor and the iCivics staff. They include games, curriculum units, lesson plans, and webquests.
History Channel- This site is packed with freely accessible essays and videos reaching back to pre-history.
EDSITEment- This site contains curated websites, lesson plans, interactives, and multi-media resources, searchable by grade level.
Arts/Humanities Resources
EDSITEment- This site contains curated websites, lesson plans, interactives, and multi-media resources, searchable by grade level.
Arts Edge- The Kennedy Center has created Arts Edge to showcase its online collection of education resources about the performing arts and visual arts.
All Content Areas
Readability- This is a free service in which you can insert text to determine teh readability level (Lexile) through five different formulas.
VideoNotes- Allows students to view YouTube, Coursera, Khan Academy, Udacity, edX, and Vimeo videos and take notes as they watch. The notes are automatically save to Google Drive.
Americal Association of School Libraries (AASL) Best Websites- The 2014 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)- This is an online collection of millions of photographs, maps, sounds, manuscripts, books, and are accessible anytime, anywhere, for anyone.
Pro-Con- This page promotes critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.
NY Times Learning Network- This website offers teachers, students, and parents stories ripped from the headlines of the New York Times and turned into standards-aligned lesson plans written by teachers.
Library of Congress- The LOC is said to have at least one of everything. LOC has collected many resources for teachers on one page.
PBL Learning Media- This site offers free access (by registration to K-12 educators) to thousands of resources through PBS Learning Media.
Smithsonian- The Smithsonian Institute offers a website for educators, students, and parents with a variety of Common Core aligned educational resources.
Thinkfinity- The Verizon Foundation brings together several government and association sites so that visitors can search multiple resource database at once.
Scholastic- Teachers can search grade-specific lesson plans and extension activities, or visit the site's video section to access professional development materials, view book trailers and talks, and their their students on virtual field trips.
NewsELA- This is free for students to explore a world of nonfiction and test their comprehension. Updated daily with real-world new from major publications, students can participate in conversation about the most urgent topics of our time, all while becoming stronger readers.
Science Resources
The Why Files- Each week, the Why Files bring you a new story on the science behind the news.
Science Buddies- This site provides teachers with everything they need to assign, manage, and evaluate a science project program in the classroom.
World Fact Book- The CIA World Fact Book offers data about almost every country on Earth, updated by the CIA on a weekly basis.
NASA- NASA offers many educational resources for teachers in STEM and other science content areas.
National Geographic- Teachers can find lessons and activities with several filters, themed collections by grade, mapping, multimedia, and more.
Bozeman Science- Videos pertaining to most topics in high school science.
Science Articles by Lexile Level
English Language Arts Resources
Media History Digital Library- The MHDL is a collection of resources providing online access to the history of movies, broadcasting, and sound recording.
ReadWriteThink- Centering on literacy, the site's classroom resources offer lesson plans, student interactives, calendar activities, printouts, and podcasts, all organized by grade level.
Social Studies Resources
Media History Digital Library- The MHDL is a collection of resources providing online access to the history of movies, broadcasting, and sound recording.
World Fact Book- The CIA World Fact Book offers data about almost every country on Earth, updated by the CIA on a weekly basis.
Stanford History Education Group- This site offers history articles and US and World History lessons.
iCivics- These are free online resources created by Sandra Day O'Connor and the iCivics staff. They include games, curriculum units, lesson plans, and webquests.
History Channel- This site is packed with freely accessible essays and videos reaching back to pre-history.
EDSITEment- This site contains curated websites, lesson plans, interactives, and multi-media resources, searchable by grade level.
Arts/Humanities Resources
EDSITEment- This site contains curated websites, lesson plans, interactives, and multi-media resources, searchable by grade level.
Arts Edge- The Kennedy Center has created Arts Edge to showcase its online collection of education resources about the performing arts and visual arts.
chromebook info
Click HERE to watch a Google Presentation of very helpful tips and hints on how to use Chromebooks effectively. Also, Kathy Schrock has an excellent webpage dedicated to Chromebooks and how to use them in the classroom (including content specific apps and ideas).
Finding APPS for your Chromebooks!
**Ways to use Chromebooks to support Learning:
PUBLISHING
PRODUCTIVITY
COMMUNICATION
COLLABORATION
Finding APPS for your Chromebooks!
**Ways to use Chromebooks to support Learning:
PUBLISHING
- Students can use a variety of websites for Digital Storytelling. Digital storytelling allows the students to “show with they know” in a creative, digital format. Digital storytelling on the web also allows for publication and sharing of projects with a wider audience. Students can use digital storytelling to support a variety of subjects. A few examples of websites that allow for Digital Storytelling are listed below along with curriculum connections:
- Prezi: Book Reviews/Reports, Research Reports, Story Telling
- Animoto: Field Trip Pictures, Classroom Events
- Voicethread: Biography Poems, Small research projects, Author Studies, Poetry Share
- Blabberize: Research projects
- Glogster: Book Posters, Character Posters, Who Am I Posters
- Other Websites: WallWisher, Story Jumper, Get Funky, FotoBabble, Little Bird Tales, Simplebooklet
PRODUCTIVITY
- Students can use productivity tools on the web that allow them to access their work anytime and anywhere. Students can use the Chromebooks to access Google Apps for Education and Moodle. Below are some examples of the ways that the students cam work in the cloud using the Chromebooks.
- Google Docs: Personal narratives, fiction stories, paragraph writing, Internet Safety Presentations
- Google Maps: Social Studies Standards, State Studies Projects, Minnesota History mapping of important places
- Picasa: Classroom pictures, field trips
- Google Earth: Book Setting Trips, Geography tours, Literature trips
- Moodle: Online courses for Social Studies, Science, Reading
COMMUNICATION
- Using Chromebooks, students can communicate using 21s century tools.
- Gmail (grades 7-12): Communication with students, Book Club Communication, Reader Response Journals,
- Moodle: group discussions
- Video Conferencing: State Studies Research, Geography Mystery Quest Video Conference, Learning outside the classroom walls
- Calendars: All classroom projects and assignments
COLLABORATION
- Collaboration is one of most important 21st Century skills that we can teach our young students. The Chromebooks allow students to collaborate face to face or on the computer while working on projects.
- The following Apps support collaboration (just to name a few):
- Google Docs, Google Sites, Gmail, Moodle and Edmodo
quizzing/polling tools
SurveyMonkey- Survey Monkey allows you to create surveys, collect responses, and analyze the results.
PollEverywhere- Allows participants to interact with a presenter during a presentation and provide real time feedback. Presenter can ask questions and participants can respond via text message or website.
InfuseLearning- A feedback/response resource that allows a presenter/teacher to send questions to participants on mobile devices or computers.
Socrative- Feedback/Response resource that allows participants to respond to questions from the presenter. Response data is gathered and emailed to presenter.
Google Forms - You can use Google Forms to create and analyze surveys, questionnaires, quizzes, or any type of assessment
PollEverywhere- Allows participants to interact with a presenter during a presentation and provide real time feedback. Presenter can ask questions and participants can respond via text message or website.
InfuseLearning- A feedback/response resource that allows a presenter/teacher to send questions to participants on mobile devices or computers.
Socrative- Feedback/Response resource that allows participants to respond to questions from the presenter. Response data is gathered and emailed to presenter.
Google Forms - You can use Google Forms to create and analyze surveys, questionnaires, quizzes, or any type of assessment
presentation tools
PodOmatic- PodOmatic allows you to quickly and easily create and publish podcasts that can be streamed or downloaded through iTunes.
Prezi- Part PowerPoint and part whiteboard, non-linear Prezi is a next-generation presentation tool that incorporates the concept of visual mind-mapping and a zoomable user interface.
Google Presentations- Cloud-based Google Presentations is essentially an easier-to-use version of PowerPoint. This can be accessed through your Google Drive account.
Prezi- Part PowerPoint and part whiteboard, non-linear Prezi is a next-generation presentation tool that incorporates the concept of visual mind-mapping and a zoomable user interface.
Google Presentations- Cloud-based Google Presentations is essentially an easier-to-use version of PowerPoint. This can be accessed through your Google Drive account.