Project Based Learning: What is it?
The High Plains Regional Technology Consortium,(HPR-TEC) has developed a set of free online tools which teachers are invited to use. The ones particularly related to this article on design are the customizable project checklists for students and the brief discussions of building motivation, multiple intelligences, and involving students in checklist creation.

GRITS
This site no longer appears to be working. However you can look at the SEIR-TEC website (SouthEast Initiatives Regional Technology in Education Consortium) at http://www.seirtec.org/

GOKNOW
Learner-Centered Technologies, founded by Phyllis Blumenfeld, Joseph Krajcik, Ronald Marx, and Elliot Soloway, has developed the GOKNOW website, which has a new tool called Artemis for online science inquiry. It provides scaffolds for students and assistance in defining and researching their driving questions. The Web resources included on this site will be very helpful to science teachers.

Project-Based Learning with Multimedia
This is a product based on an award-winning Challenge 2000 grant project. After you are finished hearing 3 teachers' stories, seeing them work with their students, and learning about the 7 important features of PBL emphasized in this project, you can use the CD to persuade administrators, parents, and the school board. this: The CD-ROM runs on MacOS 9