Connections

== =Connections= A Quality PBL lesson, unit or activity should make tangible connections between academic life and work skills. Use the information below to guide you in adding your example to our list.

Title of Project URL - if you copy and paste the URL, it will be automatically "hot". Explanation - Explain why this project meets this criteria.

1. Holocaust Remembrance Essay Contest [] High school students can enter a national essay prompt following the studying of the Holocaust; however, these prompts could be used as an essay/project for your own classroom. They should answer one of the two prompts (change from year to year, but always similar) - (a) analyze why it is vital that the remembrance, history and lessons of the Holocaust be passed on to a new generation; and (b) suggest what young people can do to combat and prevent prejudice, discrimination and violence in our world today.

2. **Various Projects with the Option of Collaboration** http://www.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?DivID=index Epals provides example projects with essential questions, resources, calendared objectives, and even the opportunity to collaborate with a teacher somewhere else in the world. If collaboration doesn't work out, you could always pair students across classes, making the exchange of information more reliable and perhaps even more meaningful. Epals projects are so clear that they outline exactly how students ought to frame each communications as the project progresses. However, the framework is not so strict that it makes genuine dialogue to occur.

3. How is Good Weather Forecast Made? [] Students will become meteorologists as they explore the conditions that make up weather. They will write and produce a television weather broadcast.