Resource Spotlight: Cluster Learning: Project Based Learning

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a bit more specific than just doing projects with your students. PBL is generally understood to be a pedagogical approach that facilitates learning through doing. As learners undertake a project, they learn content through the course of the project, researching as they encounter things that they need to know in order to progress in their work. PBL uses projects as a “main meal,” rather than a dessert: instead of learning content and then applying it in a project, learners engaging in PBL will cover content as they go, driving their own learning as they create, solve, build, serve, and explore.