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Altec: Project Based Learning Checklist

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A project-based learning checklist and rubric generator helps keep students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation. Create checklists for writing and science projects,...
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Criteria for Authentic Project Based Learning

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Check out this site to view a comprehensive list of criteria for project-based learning. This simple list is the perfect resource for parents, teachers, and students.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The August Wilson Education Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The WQED August Wilson Education Project offers resources to educators including a teaching guide, video clips from the documentary, interactive maps, a biographical timeline, webinars, contests for students, and much more. The goal of...
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Abpi: Human Genome Project

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at the human genome project and its scientific and social implications. Students work through interactive learning material, understanding the ethics involved in genetic studies. There is a suggested classroom activity...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Early Engineering With Ready Jet Go!: Pbs Kids Self Paced Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
With real-life materials and exciting tools to touch and explore, engineering activities are a natural draw for many young children. In this professional development experience with Ready, Jet, Go!, we'll look at teacher practices for...
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EL Education

El Education: Photographic Self Portraits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn to translate conceptual thinking into photographs by creating self portraits with digital photography.
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EL Education

El Education: Self Portrait Poster

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create self-portraits which are then cut and pasted into one classroom collage.
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El Education: Pointillist Self Portraits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create self portraits from a digital image with a fine point marker.
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Teach Engineering: Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work through an online tutorial on MIT's App Inventor to learn how to create Android applications. Using those skills, they create their own applications and use them to collect data from an Android device accelerometer and...
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Teach Engineering: What's Wrong With the Coordinates at the North Pole?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete a self-guided exercise in worksheet format combined with Google Earth that helps them explore practical and observable differences between different projection and coordinate systems. The activity improves their skills...
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Information Fluency

Imsa 21st Century Information Fluency (21 Cif) Portal

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) to improve Internet search skills for the advancement of information literacy. The goal of this project is to help...
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Information Fluency

Imsa 21st Century Information Fluency (21 Cif) Portal

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) to improve Internet search skills for the advancement of information literacy. The goal of this project is to help...
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Microsoft Education Virtual Tour: Batter Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This downloadable (2.7 MB Microsoft PowerPoint file) project helps students apply their knowledge of fractions and decimals to the game of baseball. They compute batting averages and hitting percentages and participate in a simulated...
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EL Education

El Education: Kindergarten Feelings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students write complete sentences telling about their feelings. Sentences are illustrated with a self portrait and a digital photograph.
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EL Education

El Education: Personal Goals Poster

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create posters to show their personal learning goals for the school year. A digital photograph, a self portrait, and goals of parents are also included on each poster.
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EL Education

El Education: Class Portrait Poster

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergarten students at the College School in St. Louis, Missouri, created this over-sized poster of individual student self-portraits. The portraits were part of an investigation of the students in the class- their similarities and...
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EL Education

El Education: What Matters to Me

For Students 1st - 5th
An online book entitled What Matters to Me: In the Hearts and Minds of Elementary School Students by 4th graders at Mary O. Pottenger School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Autobiographical essays and self portraits provide exemplary work...
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EL Education

El Education: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes and Heroines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Eleventh grade students at High Tech High Media Arts School in San Diego California are the authors of this book: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes & Heroines. To create this collection of essays each student reflected on...
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EL Education

El Education: Calligraphy/name Posters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
9th grade students from Meadow Brook High School in Chesterfield County, VA, created posters of their first names using decorative, self-selected fonts, as part of a project on identity. The product's dimensions were 11 by 17 inches.
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Study Guides and Strategies in Korean

For Students 9th - 10th
Study guides and strategies for general school work including project management, classroom participation, preparing classes. Some Korean expressions are not completely translated in the content. Site also provides versions in English...
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EL Education

El Education: Journals of Trip to New York City

For Teachers 5th - 6th
After a trip to New York City, students create reflective journals including text, photographs, and illustrations to share their thoughts and experiences, during their trip.
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El Education: Values

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An online book entitled Take Care of Your Responsibilities created by young kindergarten students and their teachers at Kanu o ka Aina Charter School on the Big Island in Hawaii. The bilingual book contains text and photographs showing...