PBL Around the World
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Students in PPOS middle school spent the year studying desertification, water as a precious resource, and the impacts humans have on water quality. As a conclusion of their studies, field work and the help of experts, students went on to propose projects around water safety and health, flooding and drought effects on crops and ranches,…
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The Billings Career Center in Montana and NASA are collaborating to provide high school students with an opportunity to create projects that may end up helping out astronauts in space. The collaboration with NASA started in 2015 allowing high school students from Montana and Wyoming to create engineering projects to help NASA’s astronauts. Students in…
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The Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) is offering grants for projects that use project-based learning to teach STEM. The program seeks innovative ideas for improving classroom-based STEM learning, with a requirement that teachers use project-based learning to implement these ideas and that they have measurable outcomes. Applications for the TAF grant program are open now and…
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Pagosa Peak Open School advisors Kelle Bruno and Katie Young worked for the past few months with students on the creation, illustration and presentation of their poems, ending it not only with the celebration, but also bound books for families containing all the poetry from the class. Student assignment was to make observations about why…
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Kaie Quigley, a senior at Lasell (Mass.) University, who grew up in West Wardsboro and attended Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School, presented his ‘Red for Threads’ project to the Red Sox foundation executives and was selected as the best among seven groups from his class at Lasell, where he is majoring in…
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Google is offering students a rich and easy to use curriculum in computer science. Starting with their CSFirst program, which makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn. The program boasts that teachers don’t have to be computer science teachers in order to teach their courses. The tools that are available for teachers are…
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Solve Ninja is a platform by Reap Benefits from India that activates students to solve small environmental problems that leave a big dent on local communities. The company creates affordable and quantifiable waste, water and energy solutions and engages with students and youth to ensure behavior modification that will allow for sustained change. By educating,…
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In the Emery/Weiner School in Houston, TX, students expanded their learning on linear functions, mixing theory with practical application in a tricycle race. Students graphed a linear function using a point and the slope by measuring distance over time to calculate speed. The teacher, Elle Bray, who came up with the idea, believes that the…
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Students from Meridian Technology Center are working with NASA to solve how to administer IV fluids in a microgravity environment. They are trying to determine the right amount of equilibrium, or pressure, needed on the outside of a bag to safely deliver fluids or medication in space. This program is part of the NASA HUNCH…
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Students at the Seinäjoki Middle School in Finland are taking part in a flexible basic education program known as ‘Jopo,’ which offers ways to learn outside classroom norms. In an effort to boost funding for an upcoming school trip, students used to shovel snow or construct a rubbish bin shed, but this year they are…
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STEM teacher Laurie Witt and Krista Hodges, educational manager of the Dan River Basin Association, led students at the Albert Harris Elementary School (AHES), part of the Martinsville City Public Schools (MCPS) division, in a hands-on project to create a pollinator and vegetable garden at the school. The students chose plants that specifically attracted butterflies,…
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Davenport students Use Project-Based Learning to Invent a Water Filtration System That Benefits thou
Students in Davenport West High School in partnership with Fishers of Men Ministries Inc., have designed a water filtration system — which will impact roughly 22,000 people. Fishers of Men is an international non-profit 501( c)(3) Christian missionary organization, headquartered in Davenport, that works to provide water wells, churches, schools and homes for children and…