Tips, Suggestions, and Ideas for Transitioning to Remote Instruction

So far all the professional business groups I am a part of have been noticeably silent on corona virus.  This is made more obvious by the fact the whole world seems to be going nuts over it. Whether it’s all an over reaction, or people’s behavior and choices will prove wise and justified, is still to be seen, but none-the-less here in the US we are starting to feel the effects of steps tRead More…

What is the PBLS Difference?

Photo by Neil Thomas on Unsplash I have been in the education field, as a student and as an educator, for the past 24 years. For roughly the past 12 years, the concept of project based learning has been growing in popularity.  I have experienced it as a student, and I have employed it in my classrooms.  I have also largely taught in schools with traditional curriculum.Read More…

A Mountain is Built by Many Pebbles.

Photo by Hrishikesh Shirsikar on Unsplash By now, if you’ve been following my blog, you’ve seen the icon of a mountain silhouette filled with pebbles. Perhaps you’ve been wondering, “what does that have to do with project based learning?” or “Why a mountain?” Maybe you’ve barely paid attention to it or perhaps this is your first stop to my page.  If it’sRead More…

5 free online resources to help support your PBL efforts

Photo by Avel Chuklanov on Unsplash In the teaching profession there is nothing more helpful and valuable than free, ready-made, and easy to use resources.  If we can save time on the planning and preparing end, that frees up more time for ALL.THE.THINGS.  Here are some of my top 5 favorite free resources! 1. desmos.com Desmos.com started as an online graphing tool, and it Read More…

What’s Your Project Based Activity Teaching Style?

There are many misconceptions around project based education, and one of them is that you have to change your entire teaching style in order to implement it!  This simply isn’t true! As I discussed in a previous article about types of project based learning activities, there are many different ways to implement project based learning principles in the classroom.  Because of this, therRead More…

Ways You May ALREADY Be Doing Project/Task Based Learning!

As I dive down this rabbit hole that is project/task based learning, I am finding more and more that this type of learning (or desire to teach this way) is actually more prevalent than most people realize.   First of all, there are the numerous terms used for essentially the same type of learning, such as; Project Based Learning 🔹Task Based Learning 🔹Problem Based Learning 🔹ExperientiaRead More…

6 Quick Ways To Implement Project Based Learning Activities In The Classroom

6 quick ways to implement project based learning activities. In my last couple posts I talked about why project based learning activities are worthwhile, and about 4 different types of project based learning activities.  If this is not something that comes naturally to a person, it can be understandably confusing. There are still a lot of questions, such as, “How do I know what real-world scenRead More…

Why Project Based Learning?

Hi, and welcome to PBLS: Project Based Learning Supports.  Here we support the efforts of project based learning, or task based learning, through classroom activity resources, teacher resources, discussions, training’s and more! The term “Project Based Learning” stems from the idea that learning about content in a project or application setting (essentially in a situation where the content wouldRead More…