Project Based Learning Examples

These projects are examples of the work that is done at BIA. It is our record of what we have done and how to get there. Teachers can utilize this to display what they have done with their students, and get ideas from others teachers. Students can show their parents and friends the work that they have done, and the community can see how project based learning enables students to do and learn. Please enjoy some of the sample projects.

My Lightbulb Moment

Project Summary

The students will create a design for a house using renewable resources, circuits, and electromagnets. They will write an opinion piece/proposal explaining why their design makes sense.

Driving Question

How does electricity work and how does it impact my life?

Key Knowledge and Understanding

What if you find out the power will be shut off tomorrow. What are you going to do? Come up with an emergency plan. Students will meet with local experts to understand the concerns of power distribution. Students will work individually and collaboratively to investigate electricity.

Success Skills
  • Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Self-Management
Project Deliverables
  • Design using electromagnets.
  • Model of a green school.

Preserving People

Project Summary

We will act as historians by reading and analyzing literary and informational texts about the lives and contributions of American historical figures. With this information, we will work in groups to create a timeline of how these figures impacted our country’s history. Individually we will research, write a biography, and create a visual representation of one of the many historical figures we learn about.

Driving Question

How can I persevere through challenges at school and in my community?

Key Knowledge and Understanding

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Read about and describe the life of historical figures in American History. Describe how each historic figure in SS1H1a was influenced by his or her time and place. Describe how historical figures in SS1H1a display positive character traits.

  • Benjamin Franklin – hard work
  • Thomas Jefferson – fairness
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – equality
  • Lewis/Clark/Sacajawea – respect for others
  • Theodore Roosevelt – respect for the environment
  • George Washington Carver – hard work
  • Ruby Bridges – courage
  • Write informative/ explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
Success Skills
  • Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
Project Deliverables
  • Biography of Historical Figure
  • Museum presentation of an American historical figure