Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects

Designing Effective Projects : Project-Based Units to Engage Students

Project Design

Thinking Skills

Unit Plans

Instructional Strategies

Quote to Note

I'm not a teacher, only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead, ahead of myself, as well as you."

George Bernard Shaw

Teachers have always used each other for good ideas to improve their instruction. The Designing Effective Projects resource includes a collection of exemplary unit plans that integrate technology into classroom projects. Most of the units were developed by teachers participating in the Intel® Teach Program professional development program. The program emphasizes curriculum development that aligns to curriculum specifications and promotes higher-order thinking using curriculum framing questions, authentic project tasks, effective instructional strategies, and performance assessment. The Designing Effective Projects resources provides a foundation for good planning and supports you in adapting these project-based units or developing your own from scratch.

		Project Design › Learn about effective use of project approaches across the curriculum and grades. See how well-designed curriculum framing questions keep projects focused on important learning goals. Find good ideas for assessing projects and keeping students on track during project work. Follow planning guidelines to help you target curriculum specifications and assess student products and performances.

		Thinking Skills › Review what current research says about higher-order thinking and what they look like in primary and secondary classrooms.

		Unit Plans › Examine technology-rich unit plans you can use right away, or as models for your own planning.

		Instructional Strategies › Learn about adapting several "ideas worth borrowing" to engage students and meet your instructional aims.

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