Holiday PBL Ideas: Teaching Entrepreneurship Through the Season
Holidays give teachers a built-in audience, a real deadline, and a reason students already care. These five projects use that window to teach business thinking. [...]
Spirit Store Field Work: A High School Seasonal Marketing Project
Students study Halloween marketing where it actually happens, then write a proposal a local business can use. High School PBL Idea Project Summary: High school [...]
Winter Market Pop-Up: A Middle School Entrepreneurship Project
Students investigate how a seasonal business actually works, then design, price, and sell a product of their own at a school winter market. Middle School [...]
12 PBL plans on the circular economy
PBL Ideas From the Innovation Barn These plans came out of a teacher workshop at the Innovation Barn, focusing on the work the Barn does [...]
Architects of Empathy
Middle Project Idea · Grades 6–8 A snapshot of the 5-Phase Prompt Sequence for Project Framing — in action. Teachers don’t need another 40-page packet. [...]
What If Students Designed a Fully Self-Sustaining School?
A high-quality PBL example that turns an 8-part homestead graphic into a campus resilience studio. I was scrolling Instagram when a homestead infographic stopped me. [...]
What a Murder Trial Taught Me About the Kind of Learning Students Never Forget
The surprising connection between true crime and the most powerful project-based learning I’ve ever designed I’ve been following a high-profile murder trial for weeks. Not [...]
Small Button, Big Markup: A Middle School Business Project
Students investigate the game-day button market, design a product people will buy, and sell it in public. Middle School PBL Idea Project Summary: Middle school [...]
How I Used AI to Design a Complete PBL Project Frame in Under 5 Minutes
A strong project idea is only useful if you can turn it into a teachable frame quickly. Last week I scrolled past a Nike × [...]
Project: Coming Back for the Customer – Legacy Brands & College Consumers
Business PBL Idea This project overview is based off my Substack post HERE. Downloads are also featured at the bottom of this post. If you [...]