Earth-Environmental+PBL+Project



Natural Resources PBL

Feel free to use any of the following original resources to facilitate some of your own projects.

Contact information

 * Carol Roth, Central York School District

Click this link to visit a fantastic Edutopia article on creating quality PBL experiences.

ISTE NETS Standards for Students

media type="file" key="Collaboration+Day.mov" width="330" height="330" align="left"

The Basics of this Project

 * Teacher: Identify real natural resources with local connections
 * Students: Take a survey to determine interests for groupings
 * Teachers: Big assembly to roll out the project for all students (all classes, all teachers participate, united cause and vision for all)
 * Students: Understand the resource in general
 * Students: Apply the knowledge to our local area
 * Students: Blog throughout experience to reflect, check in on progress, brainstorm, etc.
 * Students: Arrange for and participate in tours, interviews, experiments, volunteer experiences, problem solving, etc. with the resource in the real world
 * Students: Promote the natural resource to educate community members - the Action. Includes the following 3 components with great flexibility in all but the storyboard.
 * 1) Storyboard
 * 2) Product
 * 3) Presentation
 * Everyone: Celebrate the Successes!

Resourcesmedia type="custom" key="21166648" align="right"

 * ====The Kick-Off (see video of Keynote at right)====

>>
 * ====The Topics and Components====
 * [[file:PA Natural Resources Project Topics.doc]]
 * [[file:Local Resources Components.doc]]
 * ====The Rubrics====
 * Rubric builder link
 * [[file:Action Rubric.xls]]
 * [[file:Nat Res Paper Rubric.xls]]
 * [[file:Nat Resources Groupwork Rubric.xls]]
 * [[file:PA resources Presentation.xls]][[image:iu12stem/P1020174.JPG width="480" height="360" align="right"]]
 * [[file:Resources Blog Rubric.xls]]
 * ====The Products====
 * Glatfelter Paper Video Link
 * Limestone Video Link
 * ====The Celebration====
 * [[file:Celebration2.pdf]]