Apr 12 minCan you students save a city from upcoming water shortages?Cities and countries around the world are facing unprecedented water shortages. Climate change and a growing population are both contributing to this emergin...
Mar 105 minHow to create a "Future-proof" PBL unitIn the last decade, educational institutions are grappling with a big, hairy, existential question. What is the purpose of an education? Once students leave ...
Mar 104 minMaking PBL Work at Australian Christian College‘How are we preparing our students for a future like this?’ – how a simple question sparked a significant shift in the way Australian Christian College appro...
Feb 58 minHow to design and plan an interdisciplinary PBL unitInterdisciplinary learning is a growing trend within secondary schools around Australia. It is increasingly uncommon for a school not to have at least part o...
Feb 49 minMaking PBL work at Loyola College‘Take chances, make mistakes and get messy’ – how the Humanities team at Loyola College shifted their curriculum delivery towards deeper learning through PBL...
Nov 27, 20196 minTaking inspiration from computer games to enhance your PBL programLong considered little more than a distraction from more productive tasks, it would seem strange to turn to computer games for inspiration for developing gre...
Nov 27, 20196 minFine-tuning PBL for Year 7 studentsWhat do you do when you are starting a new school and want to incorporate PBL as one of the key pedagogies? The answer is: treat the exercise as a PBL projec...
Nov 18, 20192 minCan your students address the urban crisis and make cities more livable in Big Australia?Recent estimates suggest that Australia could hit a population of 30 million by 2029, 40 million by 2050, and as many as 50 million by 2075. This projected i...
Nov 18, 20192 minCan your students help fight ocean plastic waste?Over 8 million tonnes of plastic enter our oceans each year. Shockingly, it is now estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. ...
Oct 30, 20198 minMaking Project-Based Learning Work at Chisholm Catholic CollegeBy Paul Shanahan (Head of Science) & Melissa Galea (Assistant Head of Science) Chisholm Catholic College For the Science Learning Area at Chisholm Catholic C...
Oct 30, 20193 minTeaching and Assessing General Capabilities Through Project-based Learning (Part 1)The incorporation of General Capabilities into the Australian Curriculum raised a number of issues for schools, most of which are yet to be effectively resol...
Oct 30, 20193 minHow to pick a PBL theme that will engage studentsBefore we jump into the “How” of picking a theme for PBL, it is important to quickly review the role of the theme in PBL and why it is so important. The proj...
Jan 22, 20191 min8 Keys to Making PBL WorkConcordia University Portland is dedicated to envisioning the classrooms of the future, and have a long experimental history with PBL. In this article, Kara ...
Jan 22, 20191 minMaking PBL Part of a School's DNAWinton Woods is part of the New Tech Network, which has put PBL at the heart of the school's instructional methodology. In this article the school explains h...
Jan 22, 20191 min100% of this school's teaching is through PBL.Manor New Tech High in Texas, USA has experienced such high levels of success, outperforming the Texas benchmarks, that it has moved to teaching exclusively ...
Jan 22, 20191 minSchool district adopts PBL to increase college readiness.Maury County in the US have phased in PBL as a major component of their instruction. Having been overwhelmed by studies showing the impact of PBL on college ...
Jan 22, 20191 minMaking PBL WorkLooking for inspiration as to what the outcomes might be if you were to incorporate PBL into your classroom? Check out these 3 great studies. We discussed co...
