Project+Based+Learning-Engineering

[|What is PBL? (Prezi)]
** Do you have your virtual library card??? **

Looking for ideas for projects? You can use Buck Institute for Education's Project search tool at [|BIE project search]or the following links to project libraries:
[|Search by CC Standard] [|West Va. DOE Teach 21 guides] [|The Project Approach] [|Center for innovation in Engineering/Science Education Collaborative Projects] [|Try Engineering] [|Web Inquiry Projects Examples] [|International Education and Resource Network (iEARN)] [|WestEd] [|Science collaborative projects] [|Online engineering projects] [|Kids engineering ideas] [|Elementary science engineering projects] [|Primary Engineer] [|National engineers week foundation] [|International Technology and Engineering Educators Association] [|Teach engineering] [|Virginia Engineering Activities] [|Interdisciplinary STEM projects] [|Designing effective projects] [|Challenge Based Learning] [|NCSU enginneering place] [|PBL ideas from Cyber-Kap]

Virtual Field Trips:
[|Factory Tours] [|Museum Tours] [|Trips organized by location] [|More trips organized by location]

Kindergarten:
[|Live Cams at the National Zoo] [|Changing and Growing Animals] [|Animals and Pets Videos]

1st Grade:
[|Force and Motion Simulations]

2nd Grade:
[|Water as a Resource] [|Virtual Tour of the human ear] [|Virtual tour of butterflies exhibit]

3rd Grade:
[|Virtual Moon Tour] [|Virtual Constellations] [|Tour a Toyota Plant]

4th Grade:
[|The Civil War in NC]

5th Grade:
[|The Virtual Body]

Using Technology in the Projects:

===Remember technology is a useful tool of the project, it is not the point of a project. Think of it as a tool for inquiry, communication, collaboration, project management, and product development, rather than an end to itself.=== **Managing their work:**

Have older students use shared file systems like [|Google Documents] to put documents online for collaboration on drafts of products, commenting on each other's work, collecting research notes and rsources or keeping and updating a project task list or calendar. If they are using Word documents, have students use [|Dropbox] to collect and store their work during a project. It helps them keep track of multiple drafts, and it's a safe place for documents. Setting up a team wiki is also a good tool for collecitng pieces of work, adding documents, and linking to resources. Wikispaces (like this) is free and WCPSS has free PBWorks wikis you can apply for. You will need to go through the cyberspace training on Blackboard to obtain one. [|Book Builder] [|Virtual Revised Blooms Taxonomy] [|PBS resources]
 * Creating Products and Presentations: **
 * Use [|Glogster]to design posters, to post online or print. **
 * Use [|Storybird]to collaboratively create books by assembling images and adding text. **
 * Have students organize content for presentations in web-based multimedia tools like [|Prezi]or [|Voicethread], or use [|SlideRocket]to add an audio track to powerpoint presentations. **
 * Create word clouds on [|Wordle] **
 * Use [|Edublog], [|googlesites], [|Kidblog], or [|Weebly]and [|Blogger] to create websites where students can exhibit their work or create digital portfolios of work. **
 * Instead of writing informational reports students can write scripts and record newscasts using video cameras and online video editing programs such as [|Kidvid] **
 * [|Large directory of learning and performance tools] **
 * [|Animoto- where students can create videos] **
 * [|Use jognog to create Jeopardy or other review games- 40,000 question bank] **
 * [|Edmodo] **
 * 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to tell a Story **
 * [|Using Technology in the Classroom] **
 * [|Google Lit Trips- allow students to explore where the stories they are reading take place] **
 * [|Storyboard Templates] **
 * [|Zooburst- Create 3D pop up books] **
 * [|Piclit- helps students describe images] **
 * [|Museum Box] **
 * Cool Tools- lots of web tools **


 * Online Sources of Text Materials: **

Lexiled short passages-engineering:
[|Engineering Passages]

Maps:
[|National Geographic] [|Info Please]

Poetry:
[|Poetry Foundation] A searchable archive, news, articles [|Academy of American Poets] Poetry archive sorted by poet, poem, topic

Images:
[|Metropolitan Museum of Art- 400,000 images] [|Photobin] [|National Geographic stock photos] [|World Images-CA State Univ.] [|Corbis images] free to print with watermark [|Time Life] [|Copyright free images for schools] [|DK clip art free for schools] [|Open education resources]

Primary Source documents and diaries:
[|Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History] [|Library of Congress American Memory Project] [|Library of Congress American Newspaper archive]

Artwork:
[|Artcyclopedia] [|Olgas ABC Gallery]

**Music:**

 * [|Awesome site that has multiple links for royalty free music]**
 * [|Royalty free- Music and sound effects]**
 * [|Free Sound]**
 * [|Royalty free music with easy search]**
 * [|Purple planet]**


 * Critical Thinking Tools: **



** [|Critical Thinking Consortium] **

** [|Foundation of Critical Thinking] **

** [|Center For Creative Learning] **

** [|Thinking Maps] **

[[file:CooperativeGroupContract.doc]]


Assessment:

= Example PBL's: =

[[file:2nd fairy tale map project.pdf]]


=** Engineering Activities: **=