PBL – 50+ Real-Life Challenge Questions

Posted on June 23, 2022 by Lee Anna Stirling

Quality project based learning can be for any subject, grade level, or ability level. Most intrinsically motivating for students is working to solve a real-life challenge. Especially motivating is when learners know how working to solve the challenge helps people or animals. Equally important, by working to solve a real-life challenge, students gain a sense of agency – they realize they can impact life in a positive way. Here are 50+ examples of project-based learning challenge questions.
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Inquiry Learning Isn’t a Free-For-All

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Lee Anna Stirling

Inquiry learning, also called inquiry-based learning, in a nutshell, is learning through systematic investigation, centering around student-generated questions. PreK-graduate level students engage in inquiry learning. The ability to ask relevant Continue Reading →

2022 Workshops/Consulting

Posted on December 23, 2021 by Lee Anna Stirling

For Deeper Learning’s current workshops are described below and more current workshops are linked at the bottom of the page. If you have questions, let us know. Our email address Continue Reading →

College & University Project-Based Learning

Modeling quality project-based learning (and problem-based learning) your workshop is participant-centered, with carefully structured peer collaboration, hands-on activities, readings, online and hard copy resources, slides, enactments, and mini-presentations. Continue Reading →

Early Childhood PBL Workshop

Bring Early Childhood PBL Workshop to your site! In project-based learning, your students help solve a real-life challenge. For example: How can we have a good ride on our school Continue Reading →

How People Learn Effectively

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Lee Anna Stirling

The following is an excerpt from Accelerating Learning As We Build Back Better by Linda Darling-Hammond and Adam K. Edgerton of Learning Policy Institute Positive relationships and attachments are the Continue Reading →

Heather J. Perry

Heather J. Perry, PhD, For Deeper Learning Board member, is Superintendent of Schools for the Gorham School Department, Gorham, Maine where she has served the community, beginning in 2015.The Gorham Continue Reading →

Deeper Learning Journal of Practice

Practice-focused with bridges to research… Deeper Learning Journal of Practice (DLJP). Read how authors implement practices that support deeper learning. Deeper Learning Journal of Practice (DLJP) a peer-reviewed, annual, online Continue Reading →

Blog Post Invitation!

Share how you implement an approach, structures, and scaffolds that forwards two (or more) deeper learning outcomes . Teachers of prek-12, adult education, college or graduate school are invited to share Continue Reading →

Organized Inquiry – and Service

by Nicole Casasa-Blouin After noticing pine trees on our school campus had roots sticking up out of the ground, 4th grade students at Gerald E. Talbot Community School, Portland, Maine Continue Reading →