PBL Overview Resources

what is Project-Based Learning?

PBL vs. Projects

Project Based Learning Stories and Structures: Wins, Fails, and Where to Start 

PBL Blog & Podcast

Magnify Learning’s PBL Blog

the pbl PLaybook PODCAST

project examples

Elementary

• Project PLACE Units

• High Tech Elementary (Website)

Middle School

• High Tech Middle (Website)

Secondary

• Access Denied to Permission Received: New Tech Students Change District through Nationally Recognized Project (video)

• High Tech High (Website)

• Edutopia-Project-Based Learning Lesson Plans

PBL Design Resources

6 A’s Project Design Rubric

6 Steps Project Process

Planning Forms

Curriculum Mapping

PBL KEY ELEMENTS

Benchmarks/Scaffolding 

Community Partnerships 

Driving Questions

Employability (21st Century) Skills 

End Products

Entry Events 

Group Contracts/Grouping

Know/Need to Know 

Rubrics/Assessment

Standards 

protocols

National School Reform Faculty (Website)

School Reform Initiative (Website)

Protocols (PDF Format)

ATLAS (Looking at Student Work) Protocol

Project Tuning Protocol (6 A’s)

Critical Friends: Looking at Student Work  (Video)

Developing Students’ Ability to Give & Take Effective Feedback (Article)

Critique & Feedback: The Story of Austin’s Butterfly (Video)

Evaluation Within Project-Based Learning (Article)