These projects have been designed by BIE and its partners to allow participants to mainly focus on how to implement a project rather than design one. During the classes, teachers can certainly customize the project to fit their needs, but the basic idea and major components must stay the same. In addition, the 8 Essential Elements of Project Based Learning must also be present (See Section II on all project documents).
Back in the Day
High school students publish a collection of nonfiction writing that tells family stories of growing up and coming of age.
Elementary students design, manufacture, market and sell friendship bracelets to experience the entrepreneurial cycle.
Choose Your Own Adventure
Elementary students create interactive stories involving family histories with choices that reflect historical probability.
High school students create live or recorded performances to show how they personally connected to a classic play.
What Will They Think?
Middle school students make predictions about how a larger group of people will answer questions about new food products.
High school students create a game using geometric concepts, mirrors and lasers.
Middle school students connect resilient people to themselves through music, spoken word, poetry and artwork.
Schoolyard Habitat Project
Elementary students create insect habitats, provide nesting sites for birds or grow native plants to enhance school grounds.
The 22nd California Mission
Elementary students propose a location for a new mission and design the site layout and buildings.