A rubric is a scoring guide that clearly differentiates levels of student performance. Use these rubrics as a starting point to developing your own PBL rubrics.

Template used to develop a project-based learning unit. This template guides the teacher through each step of the PBL process: Begin with the End in Mind Craft the Driving Question Plan the Assessment Map the Project Manage the Process

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to the moon? To stay for a week? A month or even a year? Would you like to start a lunar colony? What would it take to survive? How would you eat, dress or exercise? How would sports played on the Earth be played on the moon? Guided inquiry and products are at the core of this lesson. Students engage and investigate in collaborative groups how the inherent characteristics of the earth and the moon would affect a sport played there. The student is to invent, under contract from NASA, new sports that astronauts can play on the Moon for exercise. Grades: 8 - 9 Time: 3 - 5 Days (total in class time), 4 - 5 weeks actual