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One of the few blogs I read with regularity is A.J. Juliani's Blog - it's one of only a couple I get delivered to my inbox! His newest blog post poses a challenge - one that is open to ANY teacher!  I encourage you to check it out and think about stepping up to the challenge with a group of your students.  I've included some highlights below - if you would like full details, check out the original blog post here: Creating a School (on Mars) from Scratch . The hashtag #MARSchallenge with be used to share out what students are designing, making, and building this month.  If nothing else - follow along to see what others are creating! Image from A.J. Juliani Blog - used with permission. From A.J. Juliani's blog: This challenge is open to any teacher and group of students in a K-12 education setting. We provide lesson plans, student notebooks, power point presentation for each lesson, and a framework (the LAUNCH Cycle) for your students to tackle this e...

It is already our last Friday in October; where has the fall gone? Here are this weeks Five Friday Finds.  There is a definite focus on PBL (Project Based Learning) for these posts.  As always, feel free to share these with others. General A Gaggle of Uses for Google Apps for Education Eric Curts' Presentation on "dozens of ways our district uses Google Apps."  Some great ideas here! The following sites all come from the same blog site, but provide some GREAT resources and link to ideas/resource/lesson that are project based learning focused.  The resources provided have the primary focus of the subject area under which they are listed, but many incorporate more than one area. ELA Project Base Learning Language Arts Projects Mathematics PBL Examples of Math Project Ideas Science PBL Examples of Science Lesson Ideas Social Studies PBL Social Studies Project Ideas