PBLL Product Examples
Activity Book for Chinese-speaking Children Visiting Hawai'is Plantation Village (by Stephen Tschudi)
- Language: Chinese
- Challenging problem: Making the historical past relevant for children
- Public product: Activity book (sample pages from the public product are embedded throughout the site)
- Public audience: Chinese-speaking children
- Project partners: Hawaii's Plantation Village, National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Building Literacies (by Rachel Mamiya Hernandez)
- Language: Portuguese
- Challenging problem: Illiteracy
- Public product: Children's books (scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on the links to see photos from the project)
- Public audience: Portuguese-speaking children in the state of Bahia, Brazil
- Project partners:
- Universidade Estadual de São Paulo- Araraquara
- Teachers from PRACATUM Social Project
- Professor Sávio Siqueira from the Universidade Federal da Bahia
Letters from the Internment Camps - VoiceThread (by Gail Dessler & Halerin Ferrier)
Language: English
Challenging problem: Intolerance (How can writing, art, and technology combine to develop a culture of 'change writers' and to promote resilience and tolerance within and beyond an elementary school site?
Public product: VoiceThread about hidden community histories
Public audience: People who experienced life in internment camps
Project partners:
Language: English
Challenging problem: Intolerance (How can writing, art, and technology combine to develop a culture of 'change writers' and to promote resilience and tolerance within and beyond an elementary school site?
Public product: VoiceThread about hidden community histories
Public audience: People who experienced life in internment camps
Project partners:
- Marielle Tsukamoto (guest speaker about her first-hand experiences in an internment camp)
- Elk Grove historians
Japanglish: Looking at Culture Through the Mirror of Language (by Kasumi Yamamoto)
- Language: Japanese
- Challenging problem: Japanese loan words
- Public products: Manga cartoons and public debate (scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on the links to see student-created cartoons from the project)
- Public audience: Japanese college students and people from the community
- Project partners: Japanese host families
Museo para muchachos (by Abby Carle)
- Language: Spanish
- Challenging problem: Engagement with art
- Public product: Activity brochure (scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on the links to see sample activity brochures created by students)
- Public audience: Spanish-speaking children
- Project partners: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Project Ripple Effect (by Alla Savelieva)
- Language: Russian
- Challenging problem: Sustainability and environmental awareness
- Public product: Activity book (scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on the links to see photos and a sample activity page from the project)
- Public audience: 7-year olds (2nd grade) of Baku European Lyceum
- Project partners: Environmental science and education specialists from Siberia, Russia
The Boat Project (by Anny Case, Marcy Ray, and Scott Franz - click here to see a 1:48 minute video about the project)
- Language: English
- Challenging problem: Cultural preservation (Marshallese culture)
- Public product: Traditional Marshallese outrigger canoe (click through the thumbnails at the bottom of the photo to see images from the project)
- Public audience: Community in Spokane, Washington, U.S.A.
- Project partners: Local artists, engineers, and photographers
Turtle Talks (by Zander Srodes)
- Languages: English, Spanish,
- Challenging problem: Preservation of sea turtles
- Public products: Community presentation, activity book in 6 languages, another activity book in 5 languages (this is the English version), and website
- Public audience: Elementary school children, adults
A page in Portuguese containing images of student work and PBLL products based on driving questions such as: What should we buy to survive a mass strike?, Why isn’t Brazil a more popular vacation destination for foreigners and Brazilians alike?, and What would your perfect classroom be like?
Other Product Ideas
Exhibition: Kindergarteners as Experts - A 5:35 min. video of a learning showcase in which Kindergarteners share their learning about birds with community members
Videos: Literary Products
Website: Fifty Best Birds in the World