Introduction
Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem, or challenge. Essential Elements of PBL include:
- Significant Content - At its core, the project is focused on teaching students important knowledge and skills, derived from standards and key concepts at the heart of academic subjects.
- 21st century competencies - Students build competencies valuable for today’s world, such as problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity/innovation, which are explicitly taught and assessed.
- In-Depth Inquiry - Students are engaged in an extended, rigorous process of asking questions, using resources, and developing answers.
- Driving Question - Project work is focused by an open-ended question that students understand and find intriguing, which captures their task or frames their exploration.
- Need to Know - Students see the need to gain knowledge, understand concepts, and apply skills in order to answer the Driving Question and create project products, beginning with an Entry Event that generates interest and curiosity.
- Voice and Choice - Students are allowed to make some choices about the products to be created, how they work, and how they use their time, guided by the teacher and depending on age level and PBL experience.
- Critique and Revision - The project includes processes for students to give and receive feedback on the quality of their work, leading them to make revisions or conduct further inquiry.
- Public Audience - Students present their work to other people, beyond their classmates and teacher
Process
The Buck Institute offers many great resoureces. They are organized into three broad categories: things to read, to watch, or to interact. Your task is to gather needed resources for for potential PBL lessons.
First go to the following website: http://bie.org/resources.
Once here look through the various resources that you can read. 
1. You can read an article, handout, planning form, or student handout.
2. Find one useful resource that you could use, download it to your desktop, and email it to yourself.
3. On the handout you have been provided. Explain how you might be able to use this resource in your classroom.
Watch
4. Now go to the 2nd column and watch one of the following: video, webinar, recorded google hangout, or Twitter chat. Use the resource search tool on the right to help you find something to watch that aligns with your classroom needs.
5. On the handout provided write what you watched, why you watched it, and how you might be able to use the information in your class.
Interact 
6. Now search for a PBL project that you might be able to use.
7. Go to the search engine on the right. Type in interact, teacher under audience, your experience level, and the grade you teach.
8. Find a PBL lesson that might align with future standards that you are teaching.
9. On the hand out provided explain what the lesson is and how you might be able to use it in your classroom.
Evaluation
On the handout provided please explain the MVP (Most Valuable Point). What resource was the most helpful?
Do you still have any muddy points? Are there any resources that you still need? If so what are those resources? Write those on the handout provided?
Conclusion
As you consider implementing PBL in your classroom the following article offers 7 essential elements to consider.
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/sept10/vol68/nu…
Here are some essentials:
1. The information should be a need to know.
2. A Good driving question.
3. Student voice and choice.
4. 21st Centucy Skills
5. Inquiry and Innovation
6. Feedback and Revision
7. A Publically Presented Project