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Assessment Strategies: Rubrics
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This article provides an overview of using rubrics as a method of assessment and discusses technological tools that facilitate the creation of rubrics.

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Practitioner Support
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Lesson Plan
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Jessica Fries-Gaither
Kimberly Lightle
Date Added:
02/09/2021
Boston Public Schools Capstone Project Collection
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The (Boston Public Schools) Capstone Project is an opportunity for students to engage in rigorous project-based learning. It is an opportunity for our students to develop skills to be life, career, and college-ready in a culturally affirming, developmentally structured academic project. To support this learning, Boston Public Schools Library Services, through the Massachusetts Library System, offer students high-quality, licensed digital resources.

Subject:
Practitioner Support
Material Type:
Module
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Classroom Cell Phone Policy
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The goal of this lesson is to give students ownership over classroom policies by asking them to research and support a cell phone policy that they believe should be used in our classroom. Students will discuss and debate the policy after researching and then they will create the policy that we will follow for the first quarter. After the first quarter, we will reevaluate the policy for effectiveness. Students will use research and speaking and listening standards to complete this PBL for an authentic purpose. It is important to actually implement the policy for that particular class, or students will not feel the 

Subject:
Critical Thinking
Interdisciplinary, Project-based, and Real-World Learning
Personal Management
Reading Informational Text
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Margaret Delgado-Chernick
Date Added:
07/15/2019
Concord Consortium: Solar Oven
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Elementary grade students investigate heat transfer in this activity to design and build a solar oven, then test its effectiveness using a temperature sensor. It blends the hands-on activity with digital graphing tools that allow kids to easily plot and share their data. Included in the package are illustrated procedures and extension activities. Note Requirements: This lesson requires a "VernierGo" temperature sensing device, available for ~ $40. This item is part of the Concord Consortium, a nonprofit research and development organization dedicated to transforming education through technology. The Consortium develops digital learning innovations for science, mathematics, and engineering.

Subject:
Physics
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Diagram/Illustration
Lecture Notes
Provider:
Concord Consortium
Provider Set:
Concord Consortium Collection
Author:
The Concord Consortium
Date Added:
04/02/2013
Creating Mini Wastewater Treatment Plants
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Student teams design and then create small-size models of working filter systems to simulate multi-stage wastewater treatment plants. Drawing from assorted provided materials (gravel, pebbles, sand, activated charcoal, algae, coffee filters, cloth) and staying within a (hypothetical) budget, teams create filter systems within 2-liter plastic bottles to clean the teacher-made simulated wastewater (soap, oil, sand, fertilizer, coffee grounds, beads). They aim to remove the water contaminants while reclaiming the waste material as valuable resources. They design and build the filtering systems, redesigning for improvement, and then measuring and comparing results (across teams): reclaimed quantities, water quality tests, costs, experiences and best practices. They conduct common water quality tests (such as turbidity, pH, etc., as determined by the teacher) to check the water quality before and after treatment.

Subject:
Engineering
Life Science
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
Activities
Author:
David Bennett
Sara Hettenbach
William Welch
Date Added:
06/01/2018
Design and Test a Ping-Pong Paddle
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Emphasizing the design, build, and test steps of the engineering design process, groups create a ping-pong paddle. After building their paddle, students conduct tests and compare their design to a store-bought paddle and use a Venn diagram to organize their information. Based on their results, students write product reviews for their paddle. This project allows students to build and test a design, iterate upon that design as well as explore how data analysis of a product works.

Subject:
Engineering
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
Activities
Author:
Kelsey Mongeon
Michelle Kuhlman
Date Added:
03/27/2019
Developing and Facilitating Virtual Projects
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Educators will acquire the knowledge and skills to demonstrate a basic understanding of Project-based Learning. Educators will strategically leverage digital tools and strategies to facilitate Gold Standard Project-Based Learning online to bolster student engagement and achievement

Approximate time to complete this course is 4 hours. A micro-credential is available from Digital Promise upon completion.

Subject:
Educational Technology
Practitioner Support
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
Verizon
Provider Set:
Verizon Innovative Learning HQ - Professional Development
Author:
Digital Promise
Date Added:
09/21/2023
Exploring Nondestructive Evaluation Methods
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Through this lesson and its series of hands-on mini-activities, students answer the question: How can we investigate and measure the inside of an object or its structure if we cannot take it apart? Unlike the destructive nuclear weapon test (!), nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods are able to accomplish this. After an introductory slide presentation, small groups rotate through five mini-activity stations: 1) applying Maxwell’s equations, 2) generating currents, 3) creating magnetic fields, 4) solving a system of equations, and 5) understanding why the finite element method (FEM) is important. Through the short experiments, students become familiar with the science and physics being used and make the mathematical connections. They explore components of NDE and see how engineers find unseen flaws and cracks in materials that make aircraft. A pre/post quiz, slide presentation and worksheet are included.

Subject:
Algebra
Engineering
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Science
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
Lessons
Author:
Anton Efremov
Marianne Livezey
Oleksii Karpenko
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Field Biology
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This video segment from the teacher video series Learning That Works uses a case study to highlight the effectiveness of a project-based, real-world approach to teaching science. [6:11]

Subject:
Mathematics
Science
Material Type:
Audio/Video
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
GrowNextGen: Living the hive life: honey bees and pollinators
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What’s happening to honey bees? This unit contains three different ways to learn about honey bees and pollinators: a video for all to learn more about bees and how to successfully keep them, a problem-based learning unit to support populations of pollinators aimed at elementary students and a problem-based learning unit including forensic skills for middle/high school. This unit features 4 lessons and 9 files. Lessons are aligned to NGSS.

Subject:
Biology
Science
Material Type:
Module
Unit of Study
Provider:
GrowNextGen
Date Added:
02/23/2024
Introduction to Case Based Learning: Solving Real-World STEM Challenges
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Welcome to an orientation to Case Based Learning created through a collaboration between Partnership for Innovation in Education (PIE) and JASON Learning. This self-paced professional learning course can be done in one or multiple sittings, and takes approximately 2.0-2.5 hours to complete. Actual times may vary.

In this asynchronous course, participants will explore how to implement Case Based Learning in the classroom [concepts and techniques], while experiencing "hands-on" components through a short, sample case. This course includes how to access further information on Case Based Learning and how to connect with CaseLAB® to create your own case!

*Email registration for this free course is required. You will be prompted to login or register after clicking the resource link.*

Subject:
21st Century Skills
Interdisciplinary, Project-based, and Real-World Learning
Practitioner Support
Material Type:
Full Course
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Partnership for Innovation in Education (PIE)
Date Added:
06/29/2022
Just Like Kidneys: Semipermeable Membrane Prototypes
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Using ordinary household materials, student “biomedical engineering” teams design prototype models that demonstrate semipermeability under the hypothetical scenario that they are creating a teaching tool for medical students. Working within material constraints, each model consists of two layers of a medium separated by material acting as the membrane. The competing groups must each demonstrate how water (or another substance) passes through the first layer of the medium, through the membrane, and into the second layer of the medium. After a few test/evaluate/redesign cycles, teams present their best prototypes to the rest of the class. Then student teams collaborate as a class to create one optimal design that reflects what they learned from the group design successes and failures. A pre/post-quiz, worksheet and rubric are provided.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
Activities
Author:
Jasmine Nitschke
Kelsey Mongeon
Date Added:
07/03/2017
Light-Up Plush Pals
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Students make their own design decisions about controlling the LEDs in a light-up, e-textile circuit, plush toy project that they make using LilyPad ProtoSnap components and conductive thread. They follow step-by-step instructions to assemble a product while applying their own creativity to customize it. They first learn about the switches—an on/off switch and a button—exploring these two ways of controlling the flow of electric current to LEDs and showing them the difference between closed and open circuits. Then they craft their creative light-up plush pals made from sewn and stuffed felt pieces (template provided) that include sewn electric circuits. Through this sewable electronics project, students gain a familiarity with microcontrollers, circuits, switches and LEDs—everyday items in today’s world and the components used in so many engineered devices.

Subject:
Computer Science
Engineering
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
Activities
Author:
Angela Sheehan
Morgan Ulrich
Date Added:
05/11/2017
Make a Shoebox Arcade Controller
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What is inside a video game controller? Students learn about simple circuits and switches as they build arcade controllers using a cardboard box and a MaKey MaKey—an electronic tool and toy that enables users to connect everyday objects to computer programs. Each group uses a joystick and two big push button arcade buttons to make the controller. They follow provided schematics to wire, test and use their controllers—exploring the functionality of the controllers by playing simple computer games like Tetris and Pac-Man. Many instructional photos, a cutting diagram and a wiring schematic are included.

Subject:
Computer Science
Engineering
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
Activities
Author:
Angela Sheehan
Morgan Ulrich
Date Added:
11/09/2017
Resources to Get Started with Project-Based Learning in Elementary Classrooms
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This content package contains quality professional learning and instructional materials to support elementary educators interested in getting started with project-based learning as well as examples of projects to use in the classroom.Items included in the package are premium materials licensed or purchased by INFOhio or an open access item  reviewed by educational professionals.Please review materials from external sites before sharing with students.

Subject:
Practitioner Support
Material Type:
Bibliography
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Emily Rozmus
Date Added:
12/21/2023
Room Design Project (Geometry)
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Students will desing a room of their choosing. They will need to write a project proposal, create a cost sheet, and make a blueprint. Students will have to do their own research on each of these three aspets of the project to decide what they should include in each part. 

Subject:
Geometry
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Tyler Schultz
Date Added:
07/07/2019
STEM: The Engineering Design Process
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The Engineering Design Process has been such a crucial part of STEM education for the past few years. With schools pushing to become more engaged and involved with problem based learning, the design process is seen as a great starting point. In this content package for upper elementary grades, educators will find lesson plans and ideas on how to teach the design process, eBooks and digital texts with some studies on how to implement design thinking, ready-to-use activities and interactives to encourage real-world learning for students, and videos and multimedia to help students visualize different applications of the Engineering Design Process. 

Subject:
Engineering and Science Technologies
Practitioner Support
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Audio/Video
Bibliography
Interactive
Lesson
Author:
Payton Norris
Date Added:
07/26/2023
Snow Shelters and Long Underwear: Project-based Polar Learning
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A middle school teacher uses class projects to introduce students to the principles of insulation.

Subject:
Physics
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Eric Biederbeck
Date Added:
02/09/2021
Study Design for Air Quality Research
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Students take an in-depth look at what goes into planning a research project, which prepares them to take the lead on their own projects. Examining a case study, students first practice planning a research project that compares traditional cook stoves to improved cook stoves for use in the developing world. Then they compare their plans to one used in the real-world by professional researchers, gaining perspective and details on the thought and planning that goes into good research work. Then students are provided with example materials, a blank template and support to take them from brainstorming to completing a detailed research plan for their own air quality research projects. Conducting students’ AQ-IQ research studies requires additional time and equipment beyond this planning activity. Then after the data is collected and analyzed, teams interpret the data and present summary research posters by conducting the next associated activity Numerous student handouts and a PowerPoint® presentation are provided.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Physical Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Ashley Collier
Ben Graves
Daniel Knight
Drew Meyers
Eric Ambos
Eric Lee
Erik Hotaling
Evan Coffey
Hanadi Adel Salamah
Joanna Gordon
Katya Hafich
Michael Hannigan
Nicholas VanderKolk
Olivia Cecil
Victoria Danner
Date Added:
02/17/2021