This page details two lessons centered around projects based on The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe. Students create masks and discuss the symbolic significance of the seven rooms of Prospero's palace.

Students can use the ADDIE Model Template to plan their project-based learning assignment.

Water is life. We live in southern Appalachian Mountains, part of a temperate rainforest where over 50 inches of rain falls each year. This abundant precipitation creates a lush landscape on which our communities rely to support our population and economy. Students will explore this resource in depth from multiple perspectives. They will summarize the results of their studies with final products to include a written piece, an educational presentation/community outreach, a 3D product or art piece, and a multimedia component. Each of these products will allow students to demonstrate the mastery of both academic content and survival skills that they have achieved during the project. The final exhibition will be an Aquatic Adventure Academy where they will facilitate hands-on activities that teach local middle and elementary school students about water.

This project is launched at your local pet store. Students gather information about various pets by exposure of visiting the pet store, class family pet visitors, a local vet, pet adoption agency, classroom literacy, etc. Students then choose a pet they would like to promote to sell at the pet shop. The students build brochures/posters/web videos to promote which pet a customer (the audience) should get. The concluding expo entails the audience listening/viewing student research and collected data so that they would choose which pet they would get.

This is a blog post by Geoff Krall, who is a math instructional coach for the New Tech Network and writes a blog called Emergent Math. In it, using math as the context, Geoff distinguishes between Project Based Learning (PBL) and Problem Based Learning (PrBL).