Project Based Learning Resources
Resources to help your school be successful in teaching Project Based Learning to students. Here you will find Field Trip Ideas and Website Resources. We would love to hear what other resources you have found! Are you willing to share those ideas with others? Please submit your ideas using the Google Form called Submit your Ideas.
Field Trip Resources
Cascades Raptor Center
From pre-school to senior citizens, your group can schedule a private program to learn more about raptors and the amazing ways they make a living. Meet one or more of Cascades Raptor Center avian ambassadors and tour our beautiful wooded site where resident birds are on exhibit.
OSMI School and Camp Groups
Book a trip to OMSI where they’ll be immersed in a fun and hands-on learning environment! Programs include, Camp-Ins and Field Trips.
Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area
The interpretive center features exhibits on seabirds and marine life as well as human history from the headland. You can see the wheelhouse of an historic ship, check out a recreated rocky island and its inhabitants, and witness a full scale replica of the lighthouse lantern.
Apple Store Field Trip
Take your students or fellow teachers on an Apple Field Trip for an unforgettable learning experience. During the hands-on session, your group will take their imaginations to new heights using Apple products. And the work they create can complement existing classroom projects.
Charleston Marine Life Center
Situated on the campus of the University of Oregon’s marine biology institute (OIMB est. 1930), the Charleston Marine Life Center is an educational facility for visitors of all ages. Make a trip to Charleston to visit some of the most spectacular coastline in Oregon, then visit the Center to learn about the creatures that live here. Bring your students to tour the CMLC Tuesday through Friday, 8:30 am – 5 pm. Center staff and volunteers will be on hand to answer questions.
Umpqua Discovery Center
The Umpqua Discovery Center is able to provide guided tours through “Pathways to Discovery” and “Tidewaters and Time.” Both exhibits will examine the Umpqua Basin through murals, interactive activities and sensory experiences.
Rumreich Morgan Creek Hatchery
You can visit during the daylight hours and often there are caretakers on the site. Most of the activities are seasonal. The Hatchery will let schools come and help catch the hatchery fish to gather information. Contact Antonio for field trip requests.
Coos History Museum
Our school programs create opportunities for students to reinforce classroom learning with external resources. We combine elements from our exhibits, images, and archives, and visitors to local historical and cultural sites to help students to discover the issues and relevance of local history. Our programs are geared to Oregon’s state content standards.
Washed Ashore
Washed Ashore builds and exhibits aesthetically powerful art to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in oceans and waterways and spark positive changes in consumer habits.
Website Resources
KleinSpiration
Erin Klein is an award winning educator, national keynote speaker, author, and mother who has been twice selected to serve on the Scholastic, Inc. Top Teaching Team based in New York. Her work can be found on her award-winning educational blog, Kleinspiration.com, and you can follow her on Twitter.
BullyBust
BullyBust: Promoting a Community of Upstanders is nationwide bully prevention awareness effort launched by NSCC in 2009. BullyBust is designed to help students and adults become “upstanders”—people who stand up to bullying and become part of the solution to end harmful harassment, teasing, and violence in our nation’s schools. BullyBust promotes valuable free supports to help schools-in-need put an end to bullying with targeted school-wide and classroom-based efforts.
Hands & Words
It is our dream that the Purple HANDS, symbols of HOPE and of a UNITED STAND not to use violence or tolerate violence, will someday outnumber the countless victims who have suffered and died as a result of violence!
Soul Shoppe
Our mission is to create safe learning environments that bring forth a culture of compassion, connection and curiosity—eliminating bullying at the roots.
iEarn
Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world. Select a theme, such as Places and Perspectives, My Hero, or Global Issues: Environment, and get matched with a group of schools for the project.
Buck Institute for Education
For teachers, BIE offers professional development on how to design, assess, and manage projects that engage and motivate students. For schools, BIE helps bring coherence to PBL practices across grade levels and subject areas, and supports the creation of school-wide processes and structures to support PBL.
Curriki
Curriki’s mission is to eliminate the Education Divide – the gap between those who have access to high-quality education and those who do not – in the U.S. and worldwide. It’s online community of educators, learners and committed education experts works together to build and share quality materials that benefit teachers, parents and students globally.
iNaturalist
This link will take you to the teacher’s guide to using iNaturalist with your class. Contribute to Science: Every observation can contribute to biodiversity science, from the rarest butterfly to the most common backyard weed. We share your findings with scientific data repositories like the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to help scientists find and use your data. All you have to do is observe.
BirdSleuth
This free curriculum from Cornell Lab of Ornithology includes a Teacher’s Guide, accompanying Resource and Journal pages, and rich online resources that will support you in using citizen-science projects and outdoor explorations that generate authentic scientific questions. You’ll lead your students in making observations, crafting and testing hypotheses, collecting and graphing data, drawing meaningful conclusions, and sharing their work.
eBird
eBird is the world’s largest biodiversity-related citizen science project, with more than 100 million bird sightings contributed each year by eBirders around the world. A collaborative enterprise with hundreds of partner organizations, thousands of regional experts, and hundreds of thousands of users, eBird is managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Shared Resources
High School Partnerships
Portland Adventist Academy
Contact Mechelle Peinado at PAA for partnership information. mpeinado@paasda.org
Topics Ideas
Model UN
Geography Fair
Fine Art Fair
Clinic/Workshops: pottery, 3-D printing, dissection, chemistry, photography, video, music, athletics, basketball, volleyball, soccer, softball, golf, poetry, writing, drama, rock climbing, physics, Spanish
PBL Ideas from Schools
Here are some example of what schools are doing.
Scappoose: Design and Build a City project, and Video here.