Real-world, student-centered projects for college and career exploration.
This project engages students in career exploration while building personal and professional skills. Students will explore job responsibilities, work environments, education, pay, and soft skills. Their findings will be presented to highlight career insights, common themes, and personal goals.
Students practice event planning by creating a personalized party plan for a real client, using interviews and feedback to refine ideas, solve challenges, and organize logistics while applying creativity, communication, and critical thinking.
Students work in groups to explore careers in the Law and Public Safety cluster by taking on specific roles, analyzing real-world scenarios those roles face, researching how they contribute to resolving issues, and reflecting on the job’s importance, community need, and resources for further information.
Students take on logistics roles to solve a real-world challenge—designing an efficient, cost-effective plan to ship bananas from Ecuador to global destinations and presenting their solution to an audience.
Students will work in teams to design and implement a simple, productive garden that provides fresh food and encourages healthy eating. The project includes researching sustainable practices, planning and building the garden, and promoting the benefits of fresh produce to the school and community.
Students investigate housing insecurity by taking on construction and design roles, researching the challenges of homelessness, and developing a client-centered housing plan that balances safety, affordability, functionality, and dignity, then present their design to an audience.
Practical tools, videos, and guides to support project-based learning in your classroom.
A ready-to-use Google Form template for peer evaluations in group projects, helping students reflect on their collaboration and hold each other accountable.
A clear, step-by-step guide to creating concept maps: helps with organizing complex ideas visually, linking concepts, revising layouts, and using templates/tools to make diagrams that support project-based learning.
A glossary of activities for enhancing student engagement and learning.
A set of research-based rubrics (e.g. collaboration, self-direction, complex communication, critical thinking) you can use to assess student performance in PBL.
This site provides project-based learning resources designed to help students connect classroom learning with real-world career and college opportunities. Created to support Utah’s College and Career Awareness (CCA) course, these materials encourage student-centered learning through hands-on projects and simulations. While developed with CCA in mind, the resources are valuable for all educators working to build career awareness and prepare students for their future pathways.