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Designing Effective Projects

Project-Based Units to Engage Students

Teachers have always used each other for good ideas to improve their instruction. The Designing Effective Projects resource includes a collection of exemplary unit plans that integrate technology into classroom projects. Most of the units were developed by teachers participating in the Intel® Teach Program professional development program. The program emphasizes curriculum development that aligns to standards and promotes higher-order thinking using curriculum framing questions, authentic project tasks, effective instructional strategies, and performance assessment. The Designing Effective Projects resources provides a foundation for good planning and supports you in adapting these project-based units or developing your own from scratch.

Designing Effective Projects

Project Design ›
Learn about effective use of project approaches across the curriculum and grades. Follow planning guidelines to help you target standards and assess student products and performances.

Designing Effective Projects

Thinking Skills ›
Review what current research says about higher-order thinking and what they look like in elementary and secondary classrooms.

Designing Effective Projects

Unit Plan Index ›
Examine technology-rich unit plans you can use right away, or as models for your own planning.

Designing Effective Projects

Instructional Strategies ›
Learn about adapting several "ideas worth borrowing" to engage students and meet your instructional aims.

Designing Effective Projects

Quote to Note

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."  

Bill Beattie