Project Based Learning Resources
Small Starts for Teaching Students to Question the Machine
One of the most practical sessions I attended at AMLE this year was titled Question the Machine: Teaching Middle Grade Students to Think Critically in the Age of AI. It was clearly designed for teachers [...]
Why Collaborative Planning Structures Matter for PBL
...and What I Learned at AMLE I walked into Autumn Baltimore’s session this morning at AMLE — Remix the Routine: Collaborative Planning Reimagined — expecting another conversation about making PLC time more efficient. I left [...]
Why Tinkering Practices Belong in Secondary PBL (Not Just Kindergarten)
Tinkering Time: 30 Creative Classroom Projects for Young Engineers, Artists, and Inventors by Alice Baggett is written for early childhood classrooms... And that is exactly why secondary teachers should read it. The book’s strength is [...]
Vending Machine Designers: A Real-World PBL Project for Elementary Students
If you’ve spent any time in a major airport lately, you’ve probably noticed the vending machines have leveled up. Beyond snacks and drinks, terminals now dispense Legos, makeup and skincare, phone chargers, headphones, Magna-Tiles-style building [...]
From Paralysis to Partnership: How AI Saved my Teaching Career
AMLE Conference 2026 Special Edition Spark and Tell Workshop Description - After 22 years of teaching, I hit a wall: the "differentiation paralysis." We're asked to teach the middle while the edges fray. But what [...]
Parenting in the Era of AI
The Weekend My Kid Lost Credit for Making Slides Look Good Last weekend a family member of mine sat at my kitchen table for two days straight. Their history teacher told the class they could [...]
PBL Ideas Inspired by Broadway:
What & Juliet (and a Classic Novel) Can Spark in Your Classroom Broadway has a way of making old stories feel urgent again. Last night at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, watching & Juliet, I kept thinking about [...]
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. Students study real companies, design for real people, and in [...]
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 students treat a Spirit store as a field site. They [...]
Saudi Space Agency & Axiom Space / DreamUp: Designing Student Curriculum and Teacher Training for the Human Space Program Outreach
Summary In support of the Saudi Space Agency’s Human Space Flight Program and the Ax-2 mission, CraftED Curriculum partnered with DreamUp (in collaboration with the Saudi Space Agency, Axiom Space, and Nanoracks) to design the [...]
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 PBL Idea Project Summary: Middle school students study a real [...]
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 in the building: refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, and recycle, across [...]