Rubrics

A staple of any project-based learning classroom, rubrics keep teachers and students focused and organized with clearly stated guidelines. The links below provide checklists and templates for designing effective project-based rubrics.

PBL Checklists
PBL Editable Rubrics

Planning Forms and Student Handouts

Check out these planning forms and student handouts from the Buck Institute for Education:

Planning Forms
Student Handouts

Multimedia Presentation Tools

Here are some dynamic multimedia options for presenting student projects:

myHistro
This versatile, browser-based tool enables students to combine blogging, videos, and photographs on interactive Google Earth and Google Maps.

audioBoo:
This voiceover tool allows students to record their voices and spark discussion. Visit the the site to see a variety of ways it is currently used in the classroom.

Click here to learn about how podcasts can be used in the PBL classroom.

Management Tools

Edmodo

In many PBL classrooms, Edmodo is an indispensable tool for project management and assessment.

Diigo

Diigo allows for collaborative reading and sharing of ideas. Students bookmark and share online articles and documents. Text is highlighted and comments on the text are embedded.

Evernote

Evernote is a powerful organization tool. Students can set up folders by project or group, curate images, videos, audio notes, web pages, or text files, send notes and other files by email, and use as a document creator.

Scrumy

Scrumy is a project management tool that allows the user to set goals and organize/assign tasks which they can track through completion.