A project-based learning unit asks second-grade students this and other questions in an engaging hands-on experience.

While project-based learning can indeed be successful and exciting, it is hardly new. It is, in fact, a century old, as education historian Jack Schneider explains in this post.

Students in the project-based-learning group’s test scores drew closer to the students in the more-affluent school, while the control group did not close the gap.

Project-based learning enables teachers to make a difference in their students’ lives --academically, socially, and emotionally--and to experience the joy of teaching.

This year’s 3rd most-read story focuses on fun tools for project-based learning. But it’s often a great undertaking to locate and vet resources and tools for project-based learning, and educators ...

4. Project Management Project-based learning in the classroom develops the ability of students to carry out different projects. Sometimes they need to do research along and build a long project.

Four new studies on project-based learning 3rd grade science. Developer: Michigan State University Research. Curriculum. 2nd grade social studies. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State ...

But those characteristics cannot be taught through traditional instruction. Project-based learning (PBL), slowly displacing traditional forms of teaching, has evolved as a way for teachers to help ...

The Clearing House, Vol. 83, No. 2 (2010), pp. 39-43 (5 pages) Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an innovative approach to learning that teaches a multitude of strategies critical for success in the ...

Project-based learning makes you use everything you know and pushes you to learn what you don’t. You test ideas in the real world, make mistakes, adjust, and keep going.

They set out to discover new things on their own. The students do this through nine-week long, interdisciplinary projects that the Finnish call “phenomenon-based learning,” a term coined by the ...