I found a website, located at http://www97.intel.com/en/ProjectDesign that has a wide array of project ideas for multiple grade levels and subjects. This site takes in to account the different grade curricula and displays many ideas to help educators teach students how to apply their knowledge to the real world. You can search through the projects by grade level or by subject, and see how each project idea applies to each learning technique or curriculum study. It also shows links to other websites that demonstrate teaching concepts to teachers about getting kids to use their higher order thinking skills, and why it is necessary to help students learn how to learn in and of itself.
The tabs on the top of the website show four different approaches to navigating the site- Project Design, Thinking Skills, the Unit Plan Index, and Instructional Strategies. Each of these areas help instructors teach better. In the Project Design you can find the different assignment recommendations to help kids apply their knowledge, as well as guidelines on how to prepare a project itself for a large number of students to get the most benefit. In the Thinking Skills section you can see which projects help promote which skills that kids should be learning. The Unit Plan index helps instructors make specific projects for different subjects, and finally the Instructional Strategies offers further resources for teachers to help organize classrooms and activities. I believe that this site is a great find for teachers that want to help their students learn how to think for themselves.
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