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The Project Management Toolkit for Teachers® provides a modular, user-friendly resource that teachers can use to help prepare youth aged 12-18 to be college and career ready. The materials use a project learning approach to teach students the universal life, learning, and professional skills of project management

Through the Project Management Toolkit for Teachers ®, teachers will gain the following:

An understanding of project management and how to help students develop the skills to successfully manage their classroom projects

A complete set of tools inclusive of warm-ups, lessons, rubrics and assessments to integrate project management skills and knowledge into their classroom

An understanding of how to teach students to co-manage projects using the materials from the Project Management Toolkit for Teachers®

On the tabs above, you will find two versions of this toolkit:

1. The Project Management Toolkit for Teachers®- PM Terminology is aligned with professional project management (PM) terminology for those who would like to emphasize project management using industry standard terminology.

2. The Project Management Toolkit for Teachers® - PBL Terminology is aligned with Project Based Learning (PBL) terminology for teachers who are currently using PBL teaching methods in the classroom and would like to use project management frameworks to support their current classroom practices, or for any teacher who finds that this vocabulary better fits their classroom needs.

The two versions cover the same material and teachers are encouraged to utilize whichever version fits best in their classroom structure.

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Project Management Terminology

On this page you will find the download files for the Project Management Toolkit for Teachers ®, - Project Management Terminology. As mentioned on the Introduction tab, this version of the Toolkit is aligned with professional project management terminology for those who would like to emphasize project management as a career skill utilizing industry standard terminology.

The full Toolkit includes five download folders: Preface, Initiating, Planning, Executing, and Closing. Monitoring and Controlling, the fifth phase of project management, has been incorporated into the other phases to better illustrate its role as a concurrent process.

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In the download folders, you will find the following files:

Preface Folder

Introduction to Toolkit and how to use it

Background Information on project management

Assessment Tools

Appendix discussing connections between project management project based learning

Project Phase Folders

Initiating, Planning, Executing, and Closing

A Teacher Overview, providing background information and classroom support

A Student Project Plan, which allows students to work through their projects using project management frameworks

A short slide deck, which can be used as a quick review or to project as a reminder of key terms and concepts while students complete project work

An appendix including warm ups, additional class activities, and a glossary

Project Based Learning Terminology

On this page you will find the download files for the Project Management Toolkit for Teachers ®, - Project Based Learning (PBL) Terminology. As mentioned on the Introduction tab, this version of the Toolkit is aligned with project based learning terminology for teachers who are currently using this teaching method and would like to use project management frameworks to support their current classroom practices.

The full Toolkit includes five download folders: Preface, Defining, Planning, Doing, and Reviewing. Each section also discusses methods for monitoring and controlling learning projects.

You must agree to the Terms and Conditions and have an account in order to download resources.

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In the download folders, you will find the following files:

Preface Folder

Introduction to Toolkit and how to use it

Background Information on project management

Assessment Tools

Project Phase Folders

Defining, Planning, Doing, Reviewing

A Teacher Overview, providing background information and classroom support

A Student Project Plan, which allows students to work through their projects using project management frameworks

A short slide deck, which can be used as a quick review or to project as a reminder of key terms and concepts while students complete project work

An appendix including warm ups, additional class activities, and a glossary

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Do you need innovative ideas for projects that have creative end products to demonstrate learning? Sometimes we just need something to reference for final project ideas.

This blog post is a laundry list of interesting and creative project final product ideas that students and teachers can browse for inspiration.

I have seen students produce some pretty outstanding final products in my 15 years as a project-based educator. Many of those outcomes were produced by experienced project-based learners.

There is a learning curve with project-based learnin g , and it requires breaking some pretty strong habits that have formed from prior training in more traditional learning environments.

The biggest challenge for me has been getting students to think more creatively and authentically about how to demonstrate and share learning.

​Based on habit and ease, students naturally gravitate toward copy-and-paste poster boards and slideshow presentations.

There are many avenues for student choice in project-based learning, and one of those is choice in end product.

There are plenty of options to choose from, it's just a matter of getting students in the habit of thinking outside of the box.

Scroll down for a list of 100+ alternatives to copy-and-paste poster boards and slideshows! This list applies to all ages, just adjust your expectations.​

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Poster Board Alternatives:

1) Create a magazine
2) Write trivia ( is a great online trivia game program)
3) Make an interactive exhibit
4) Make a board game
5) Engineer a moving model (ex: demonstrating synaptic transmission)
6) Write a song on a project topic
7) Write a poetry book
8) Create a photo journal
9) Make a scrapbook
10) Write and illustrate a comic
11) Paint a mural

If you are looking for a platform where you can organize personalized learning experiences, check out

12) Create a gallery (ex: photography, paintings, drawings, sculptures) 15) Make a video tutorial
13) Hand-make a craft/artifact
14) Design a lesson plan

​16) Start a Vlog

My students thrive off of anything video related. They love vlogging, making documentaries, creating video promotions and music videos. Truly anything that can get these 21st-century kiddos on video, they'll take it.

17) Write a blog 25) Make a calendar27) Make a 3D model42) Create a spreadsheet portfolio (appropriate for event planning for example)
18) Make a website
19) Produce a podcast
20) Write a screenplay
21) Create a storyboard
22) Choreograph an interpretive dance
23) Organize a debate
24) Work with local legislators to write a bill

29) Write a newsletter
30) Write a news article

26) Organize a mock trial 31) Write a lab report

​28) Make a documentary 32) Artistically perform (dance, song, etc.)
33) Craft Showcase (Ex: handmade bags, scarves, DIY projects, woodworking)
34) Make a video promotion
35) Put together a career portfolio (resume, work experience, reference letters, evidence pages)
36) Create a piece of artwork that illustrates the project topic
37) Slideshow about an experience (works well for volunteer experiences, field trips, school travel, etc.)
38) Make a quiz
39) Write a book (biography, short story, novel, etc.)
40) Create an awareness campaign poster
41) Create a Facebook page (works well for characters in books, business page, or group)

44) Design a t-shirt (school shirt, shirt that raises awareness on an issue, etc.)
45) Make a "Bloom Ball" (check out this fun example and ​ bloom ball template)
​46) Make a physical or digital map
43) Make charts and graphs (to illustrate survey results for example)

If you're looking for mapping inspiration, check out my blog post on Using Google Maps for Project Based Learning Final Products . Students can use Google Maps for a variety of angles including demographics, storytelling, timelines, and more.

47) Make a puzzle 49) Design a travel brochure 52) Write a journal or diary (on a personal experience such as a health plan) Write an instruction manual
48) Design an escape room

50) Make a business card (Ex: for a character in a book, for a business, for volunteering, etc.) 51) Make a flier

53) 56) Write a petition
54) Create a theme poster
55) Make a blueprint (floor plan for the setting in a book, one's dream school, interior design)

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57) Write a persuasive speech
58) Write a business plan
59) Record an interview and publish it
60) Create an online portfolio (for showcasing creative and/or professional work)
61) Create a billboard-style advertisement
62) Write and illustrate a children's book
63) Make a concept map
64) Write and perform a monologue
65) Make a simulation (digital, written, performance)
66) Make an animation
67) Create a timeline
​68) Make a diorama
69) Make a diagram
70) Write an informative speech
71) Make a fortune teller (a hand-made origami game - one of my students added information about her topic to each square on the game).

72) Make a graphic organizer 73) Make a postcard 82) Organize an event in the community

74) Compile a book of interviews
75) Organize and host a game show
76) Produce a news segment
77) Put together a time capsule
78) Make a collage
79) Put together learning stations
80) Design a set and give visitors a "tour" (great for a book project, ecosystems project, etc.)
81) Demonstration

83) Create a professional quality infographic
84) Make a music video
85) Put together a handbook
86) Claymation
87) Learning activity
88) Child-friendly translation of a convoluted concept
89) Design and make a usable product - Ex: If the topic is on natural disasters, the student might design and build a life-saving device. ​

Have you gotten your free PBL mini tool kit yet?! Go ahead and grab it!

You'll get a planner, implementation spreadsheet, and portfolio for showcasing experiences!

90) Write a jingle
91) Make a puzzle
92) Design an art installation
93) Create a brand
94) Write a proposal
95) Host a school event
96) Organize a speaker series
97) A "_____ week/month" program/schedule (Ex: theme book club schedule)
98) Host a fundraiser event
99) Create a Pinterest profile and add boards and pins directly related to your topic.
​100) Write an editorial
101) Create a memory book
102) Create a memory box (great for experiences - students build a box with visuals that highlight themes of the experience, then they fill the box with relevant information and artifacts from the experience).
103) Make a virtual museum
104) Create a learning activity
105) Design and create a greeting card
106) Write and record a kids show or movie
107) Make a moving model or diorama
108) Make a commercial
109) Host a conversation on Clubhouse
110) Create a Facebook group
​111) Create an interactive "tour" using Google Maps.
112) Scavenger hunt

Before you head out, consider innovative final products and widening the scope of the experience for your students.

Non-poster board final products are one of many elements that make project-based learning what it is. But just because you have your students create innovative final products, doesn't make the experience project-based.

I urge you to think about making the experience even more innovative and authentic by making it self-directed project-based learning.

​Grab the freebies above if you have not already. Then add my project-based learning tool kit to help you and your students get started on endless PBL possibilities. Check out the video below for details.

Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to share your stories of project-based learning successes. I'd love to hear about some final products your students have used that weren't listed here! My eyes and ears are always open for new and exciting ideas. Thanks for reading!
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The Invent Iowa State Invention Convention takes place on April 19, 2021. If you plan to participate, be sure to mark your calendars for these important dates.

State Invention Convention:

January 20, 2021: Registration opens

February 22, 2021: Competition materials are due

March 22, 2021: Students are notified of their qualification status

March 29, 2021: Qualifying students must commit to State Convention

April 19, 2021: State Invention Convention

National Invention Convention:

June 24, 2021: National Invention Convention

Congratulations to all the inventors involved in the 2020 state convention, and a big thank you to all the teachers and parents who support the students and their inventiveness!

Even though we aren't able to hold the Invention Convention in person this year, it's still cause for celebration! We encourage all who entered Invent Iowa to show their inventing pride with this free Inventor window sign.

2020 State Invention Convention Winners

This year's Invention Convention goes virtual! View the winning inventions with the Invent Iowa 2020 Award Tour on Google Earth. Fly through the sky to each winning inventor's school. To view more details about each invention, click on "Present" or a particular invention.

You can access a list of all inventors and their inventions in our 2020 State Invention Convention Program.

Winning inventions will advance to the National Invention Convention, brought to you and hosted virtually by the Henry Ford Museum. A force for sparking curiosity and inspiring tomorrow's innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs, The Henry Ford fosters learning from hands-on encounters with authentic artifacts. The Henry Ford leads the Invention Convention Worldwide community and works to make STEM + Invention + Entrepreneurship (STEMIE) learning accessible to educators and students worldwide. Awards are supported by Invent Iowa and our sponsor, McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC - we thank them for their generosity and support of inventiveness.

2020 National Convention Winners

A huge congratulations to our Invent Iowa finalists who won awards at the 2020 National Invention Convention! This marks the 4th year in a row that Invent Iowa finalists have won at the national competition.

Charles Smith (1st grade, Ottumwa Community School District) won 1st place in the 1st grade division for the H.E.R.B. (Home Emergency Responder Beacon), an exterior light that can be placed on a house or mailbox that creates a beacon for emergency workers, activated by a wireless signal from a smoke detector, dispatch or LifeLine. Sujan Vijayraj Shadrak (7th grade, Linn-Mar Community Schools) won the Energy Industry Innovation Award for the Cool on the Go, a portable thermoelectric cooling system.

Eligibility

Students in public, nonpublic, home schools, or in after school programs are welcome to participate, as are students who are working independently. Students from outside the state of Iowa are welcome to participate.

Selection

Each submission is evaluated by a panel of judges at the University of Iowa. Judges will use the Invention Convention U.S. Nationals Rubric. You will be notified if your submission qualifies to be presented at the State Invention Convention. The top winners at the State Convention will be invited to attend Invention Convention U.S. Nationals!

Cost

Initial invention submissions require a $10 fee per student. Payment can be made by credit card or purchase order to the Belin-Blank Center.

If an invention qualifies for the State Invention Convention, there is no fee to attend. Our generous sponsors include the Iowa DNA Technologies, McKee, Vorhees and Sease, PLC., and the Belin-Blank Center.

Submitting Your Invention

You can register your invention from January 20 - February 22.

To register:

Each inventor will register through the Z-Fairs registration system (link will be provided once registration opens)

Provide information about the inventor and their invention

Pay registration fee

Local Invention Convention

Schools and groups are encouraged to organize local invention conventions to provide students with the opportunity to share their inventions and receive direct feedback. However, participation in a local convention is not a prerequisite for submitting an invention application to the State Invention Convention. The Belin-Blank Center does not host or sponsor local conventions. Individual students have the option to enter without going through a school program.

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Have you noticed someone having a problem that you think you can fix? Do you have an idea for a product that will make the world a better place? Invent Iowa is the state's foremost competition for budding inventors and entrepreneurs!

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STEM BEST Models are amazing examples of authentic learning programming!

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The Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council has awarded 75 STEM BEST® Programs since 2014 with an opportunity to grow a series of community collaborations involving school+business partnerships. Working side-by-side, teachers and industry professionals will craft curriculum and projects that prepare students for exciting career pathways in the STEM fields of manufacturing, information technology, bioscience (agriculture and medicine), finance, and more.

"The STEM BEST satellite model will allow students to experience the industry or business environment firsthand. That experience is vital to prepare students for STEM success in college or career training after high school, and it allows business and industry to introduce students to outstanding career opportunities."

-Governor Kim Reynolds, co-chair of the STEM Council

APPLICATION AND PROGRAM TIMELINE

February 8, 2021: Application portal opens

May 10, 2021: Application due

May-June, 2021: Application Review

July-August 2021: Awards Announced

August 2021 - June 2022: STEM BEST Program Planning and Implementation

January 30, 2022: Progress Report 1 Due

May 31, 2022: Progress Report 2 and final invoice must be submitted to:

Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council, Attn: Program Manager, 214 East Bartlett Hall, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS

Applications for STEM BEST® Program must be submitted by Iowa public and non-public school districts and buildings serving students in grades K-12. Clusters of schools and/or districts are encouraged to apply. This requirement then verifies that the submitting entity will be the responsible fiscal agent. The application must also contain evidence of the roles assumed by the partnering school/districts and other identified partners.

Different school buildings within an Iowa district may submit an independent STEM BEST proposal in the same proposal period. Individual school buildings may not submit more than one proposal in the same proposal period, unless one is for school-specific BEST creation and another is part of a multi-district consortium. In instances where this policy does not apply, please contact the Governor's STEM Advisory Council, info@IowaSTEM.org

For those applicants who have previously received a STEM BEST® Program award or who intend to connect to a past STEM BEST® Program awardee, please note that there is an additional required section in the proposal form that must be completed as part of the submission process. This section will be thoroughly reviewed to determine merits of the expanded program model with regards to student engagement, specific measurable outcomes and elements of financial need.

REQUIREMENTS

An applicant is required to provide a 1:1 match, up to $25,000. The match may be either cash and/or in-kind support. The match may be contributed by the applicant or a community partner. To be eligible as match, the cash and/or in-kind contribution must be provided during the funding period of the STEM BEST® Program award.

RESOURCES
DEVELOPING YOUR PROPOSAL:

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Register for our 8-week course PBL Jumpstart: Teach. You will learn how to incorporate effective teaching practices you already use into the framework of PBL, and you'll learn how to assume a new and rewarding role in the classroom.

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Register for our 8-week course PBL Jumpstart: Design. You will learn how to incorporate effective teaching practices you already use into the framework of PBL and you'll learn how to assume a new and rewarding role in the classroom.

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Your gateway to the very best in Project Based Learning, no matter where you are in your PBL journey. Here, you will find a growing set of resources to help you design and implement powerful learning in your classroom.

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The practice of using single point rubrics is slowly but surely catching on. The simplicity of these rubrics - with just a single column of criteria, rather than a full menu of performance levels - offers a whole host of benefits:

Teachers find them easier and faster to create, because they no longer have to spend precious time thinking up all the different ways students could fail to meet expectations.

Students find them easier to read when preparing an assignment. With only the target expectations to focus on, they are more likely to read those expectations.

They allow for higher-quality feedback, because teachers must specify key problem areas and notable areas of excellence for that particular student, rather than choosing from a list of generic descriptions.

Want to Learn More?

I first talked about this type of rubric in an earlier post ( Know Your Terms: Holistic, Analytic, and Single-Point Rubrics). If this is the first time you've encountered this type of rubric, reading this will give you some background knowledge on all the different types of rubrics and why the single-point deserves world domination.

To give credit where it's due, I did not come up with the name single point rubric. Although the idea for a simplified rubric with a single set of criteria came to me independently, when I went looking for academic support for its use, I found that the type of rubric I had in mind was given the name "Single Point Rubric" in 2000 during a conference presentation by someone named Mary Dietz. Attending that conference was a researcher named Jarene Fluckiger, who published a study on its effectiveness in 2010. (The reference to Dietz is in Fluckiger's paper, but no one named Dietz has published anything on the topic.)

Show Us Your Rubrics!

I urge you to take one of your most convoluted rubrics and make a single-point version of it. Then show it to the world, so other teachers can learn: Take a screenshot of it and post the picture on Twitter with the hashtag #singlepointrubric. If you aren't on Twitter or don't feel like doing this, just put a link to your rubric in the comments below. Help us start a movement to rid the world of ineffective rubrics!

Another Variation (Added in 2017)

After considering some of the limitations of this format, I played around with the rubric a bit more and came up with this variation:

The original version of the single point rubric allowed no space for actually pointing out when the student hit the standard, apart from maybe circling or highlighting the middle column. With this format, teachers can pinpoint where the student is on each descriptor, then offer feedback, either constructive, positive, or both.

To grab a copy of this for your own modification, click here.

Need Ready-Made Rubrics?

My Rubric Pack gives you four different designs in Microsoft Word and Google Docs formats. It also comes with video tutorials to show you how to customize them for any need, plus a Teacher's Manual to help you understand the pros and cons of each style. Check it out here:

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The practice of using single point rubrics is slowly but surely catching on. Try one for yourself and let us see it!

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Check out these examples of authentic learning assessment! 

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Check out these examples of authentic learning assessment! 

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Site still under construction but has some great resources - Stay tuned for more in the coming days!

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What is Agile Scrum? Learn more on our Agile Scrum Overview page.