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  Building on my previous blog posts of PBL examples of science projects and math projects, today I'll provide some links to websites with social studies project ideas.  Project-based learning in social studies is often integrated with math, science, visual and performing arts and, of course, language arts.

When using these PBL examples to create your own project-based lessons, you may need a PBL lesson planning template.  West Virginia's Department of Education site, Teach 21, has an excellent PBL Template in their PBL Tools.  Look for the WVDE Template for Project Based Learning Design.

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Teach 21 PBL - Social Studies projects - 61 projects - grades K-12
Intel PBL - Social Studies projects -  21 projects - grades 3-12
ePals - Social studies projects - 3 projects - grades K-6
Global Schoolhouse - Social studies projects - 3 current projects - grades K-12
High Tech High - The Vietnam Experience - grades 9-12
iEARN - Social Studies projects - 41 projects - grades K-12
** PBL Online - Social Studies projects - 10 projects - grades 6-12
Duke School - North Carolina Folk Life - grade 4
Envision School - Project Exchange - 9 projects - grades 9-12
Thinkfinity - Afterschool - 5 projects - grades K-12
Center for Civic Education - We the People: Project Citizen - grades 6-12
What Kids Can Do - Lights, Camera... Leadership - document local issue - grades 6-12
ERIC - Tell Us How It Was: Stories of Rural Elders Preserved by Rural Youth - grades 9-12
Salvadori Center - Salvadori Curriculum - 7 projects - grades K-6
SLICE - Comunity Service Learning Projects - 200+ projects - grades K-12
Go for Broke - Military Intelligence & Pearl Harbor - 2 projects - grades 9-12
Central York High - Mixing Art & Politics - public policy & political messages - grades 9-12
Manor New Tech High - The Hunger Games Project - world history - grades 9-12


For a more complete listing of websites with PBL background, advice, lesson plan templates, and assessment and evaluation tools, look at the LearningReviews.com Project Based Learning directory.