PBL Award Winning Blog

This Blog "PBL: Better with Practice" consists of group of (approx 250) educators interested in fine-tuning classroom practice to get the very most out of project-based learning.

E-Pals Webinar: Global Collaboration with E-Pals

Come to a one-hour free webinar to learn how to join the Global Community and find partners for your classroom or students. Also, sign up your students for safe and protected ePals SchoolMail, featuring TRUSTe certification of child privacy. SchoolMail365 was released Feb. 2 and is 100% erateable.

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Also see the free teacher and student forums and projects created by ePals and by ePals members. View student work in the ePals Student Media Gallery: http://bit.ly/StMedia

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Welcome to Project-Based Learning Blog

Welcome to this blog where we can share ideas and resources related to our project-based learning curriculum. Watch this introductory video

Food and Culture: Global Classrooms Project

Food and Culture: A Global, Collaborative, Classrooms Project
Food is culture - Introducing the newest, most exciting global classrooms project online to date! Join now, and be prepared to get your students engaged, motivated and learning with this platform for rigorous, relevant and real-world curriculum.

Can you imagine how excited and motivated your students will be as they collaborate with students in classrooms in other countries? We will provide you with many ideas for class, whether you're PK, high school or university. This entry point - food - has been the common factor in socialization and community building for thousands of years. But we don't have to stay focused just on food. This unit will expand into many directions, and you and your students will choose which possibilities to explore.

Raft Alliance: Renewing America's Food Traditions

The RAFT Alliance brings local farmers, chefs, fishers, agricultural historians, ranchers, nurserymen and conservation activists together to exchange information, tell the stories of regional foods and food producers, and create publications. Through RAFT, these communities of food producers publish lists of traditional regional foods, telling readers the stories and threats to these foods, and where seeds, nursery stock, or seafood and livestock hatchlings can be purchased to aid in their recovery. The result is the growth of food-concerned communities that are reestablishing healthy local economies. This year, RAFT is focusing its documentation work on the unique and endangered foods of New England and the Great Lakes. To download and help expand RAFT's regional publications listing foods at risk, visit the Resources page.

In 2008, the RAFT Alliance published the first book that addresses the current state of the culinary treasures unique to the North American continent. Renewing America's Food Traditions: Savoring and Saving the Continent's Most Endangered Foods was edited by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. To learn more about this book (and buy it), visit the RAFT Resources page.