Resources

Resources.

We've compiled a collection of our favorite planning resources and tools to help you in your PBL/Design Thinking journey. Here you will find links to our foundations, 21st Century and Employability Skills, project planning tools, and technology tools to help support your work.

PBL Planning Resources

Our Foundation

We believe in using a design think process to help guide our PBL experiences. Design thinking is a human centered approach to problem solving. The futurePREP'd program uses the Creative Sequence as our design thinking process.

Gold Standard PBL: We believe in high quality PBL and are big believers in the PBL Works essential elements framework. We strive to build our projects keeping the essential elements in mind.
PBL Works Gold Standard PBL Resources Page

21st Century

Skills

The Skills4Success (S4S) Framework is a set of 7 interrelated skills that have been developed through a collaborative research process with local businesses/organizations, colleges/universities, and school districts through the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District.
Skills4Success with Rubrics

The Employability Skills were developed with the same purpose and focuses on 1-2 skills per grade level. We use the Employability Skills for K-8 and the Skills4Success for High School. Whether it's the Skills4Success or the Employability Skills, we believe it's important to focus in on these skills as a part of a PBL project.
Employability Skills

Project Planning

Tools

futurePREP'd FAST Rubrics User Guide:

The futurePREP'd FAST RUBRICS guide includes
Suggested Protocols,
Frequently asked Questions and Concerns, Observation Rubrics, and a Timeline for each stage of the Creative Sequence.

Project Design Brief:

Need a place to start? This futurePREP'd design brief can help you get started. Use this template to map out every step of your PBL project.
futurePREP'd design brief

futurePREP'd Manual:

We use these protocols and teaching strategies to help facilitate thinking and conversation and to move through the Creative Sequence during our PBL projects.
Protocol Manual