Books and Articles

National science education standards
National Research Council. (1995). National science education standards.
Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences

Assessing student work
Rural Trust Documentation & Assessment Team, Harvard Graduate School of Education. (2001). Assessing student work. Washington, DC

Understanding by design
Understanding by design, updated and expanded edition (2005). Sylvia Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. Understanding by design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/ASCD. The introduction and a sample chapter are available Online.

Web Sites

ALPS
Harvard's Active Learning Practice for Schools is an on-line collaborative
environment for teachers, administrators, researchers, professors, and
curriculum designers from around the world.

Progress Portfolio
This online environment provides tools for students to record, annotate and organize their work and encourages teachers and curriculum designers to reflect on student progress and helps them structure student work.

Project Based Learning: What is it?
The High Plains Regional Technology Consortium,(HPR-TEC) has developed a set of free online tools which teachers are invited to use. The ones particularly related to this article on design are the customizable project checklists for students and the brief discussions of building motivation, multiple intelligences, and involving students in checklist creation.

Ontario's Staff Room
This award-winning site is an online "Staff Room" for K–12 teachers. It
contains links to three sets of tools, some online and some downloadable:
planning tools (organizers, forms, etc.), teaching tools (simulations,
graphics, etc.), and reporting tools (rubric tools and samples, portfolio
resources, etc.)

Video

PBLA
Project-Based Learning and Assessment: Redefining
the Classroom: Order this $15 video
from the George Lucas Educational Foundation

CD-ROM

Project-Based Learning with Multimedia CDROM
This site is the source of a CD-ROM based on an award-winning Challenge 2000 grant project. On the CD you can see movies of three teachers' stories, watch them work with their students, and learn about the seven important features of PBL emphasized in this project. The CD may also be used to demonstrate PBL to administrators, parents, and school boards.