Looking to inspire and engage your students in meaningful learning? Project-based learning is a compelling instructional approach for engaging students in authentic tasks that connect knowledge and skills across disciplines.  It’s a Wild Ride is a detailed case study designed for teachers wanting an inside look at the development and implementation of an interdisciplinary project enriched by technology. Students move from learning content-specific knowledge and skills to applying what they learn in a group design task. Ultimately, student teams must convince a theme park to accept their design through persuasive presentations.

Detailed descriptions, teacher materials, student work samples, and teacher reflections present this effective team-taught project from start to finish and behind the scenes.  For teachers interested in adapting materials for their own use, most everything developed before, during, and after the project can be found on the Web site.

Explore each of the four sections of the case study to follow the team of teachers and their students through the project, see work in progress, study the results, and learn the behind the scenes planning.