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Article about Problem-Based Learning
[|Problem-Based Learning: A Promising Strategy for Gifted Students]

Problem-Based Learning Activities
All Areas [|PBL Network] site contains PBL information, models and scenarios for all grades and subjects.

Science [|Click here] for a great resource from NASA's "Classroom of the Future" that includes numerous environmental PBL modules that can be used in most grades. They range from basic to advanced and include topics ranging from space travel, water threats, deforestation and climate change. [|Earth Science (5-12) PBL modules] [|Middle School Science] [|High School Science] Physics:[| A Day in the Life of John Henry, A Traffic Cop] [|Overload, problem of household wiring] [|Bear Accidents] Biology: [|When twins marry twins] [|The Geritol Soluti] [|on]

Health Occupations [|High School Health]

Language Arts [|American Passage Literary Survey] - in each of the 16 units covering literary ideas, there are PBL activities [|High School LA]

Social Studies/History [|What really happened at the first Thanksgiving?] [|PBL books]

Mathematics [|Middle School Math] [|PBL math] [|Planning math PBL and samples]

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