Spotlight on Sources:
Welcome to Renzulli Learning’s Spotlight on Sources, some of our most engaging resources to excite and inspire your students!
One of our favorite features in Renzulli Learning is the PBL Module! Renzulli Learning makes Project Based Learning (PBL) easy with our platform by providing a phased approach with step-by-step instructions for all students PreK-12! Our PBL Module simplifies the complexity of project based learning, makes projects relevant, student driven, and the process is manageable for teachers to facilitate with as much or as little time or effort as desired.
Check out our featured Projects below!
Check out our featured Projects below!
Teach Your Students how to find these Projects in Renzulli Learning:
1. Log into the student site
2. Click 'My Projects" in the header
3. Click 'Try one of our Super Starters'
4. Narrow the results by clicking 'Reading/Literature' and select the grade level
5. Click 'Add to My Projects'
Beautiful Bugs
Grades: PreK - 5
Learn all about butterflies. You will find out how they are able to migrate such great distances and about their various habitats around the world. Learn what scientists know and also what they do not yet understand about the metamorphosis of the butterfly. After you complete your research, you can create a butterfly handbook or you can challenge others with a board game of questions and answers.
Behavior of Gases
Grades: 3 - 9
This project gives you a chance to learn about the gas laws of chemistry and physics. You will also learn about some applications of these relationships among volume, pressure, and temperature. You will see virtual examples and demonstrations showing how these laws influence activities in everyday life. As an end product, you will have the opportunity to explore the measurement of the pressure of a gas by carrying out several investigations of your own, or you can choose to create a comic book complete with plot, heroes, villains, humor, etc., explaining the gas laws in the course of telling a story.
City of the Future
Grades: 6 - 9
Complete this project to learn how cities and societies change. You will choose a city and study its past, so that you can compare this to its present. While researching, keep a notebook about the changes that have taken place in this city over the past 100 years. Find out how such things as transportation, architecture, and the needs of people have changed. Then imagine what this city might become in the future. You can paint or draw your vision, build a three-dimensional model, or design a city with a computer. You also have the option of entering a future city engineering competition.
Covid-19: A Global Pandemic
Grades: 9 - 12
In the year 2020, life as we know it has come to a standstill around the world. Schools and businesses have shut their doors, people have to stand in line to enter the grocery store and wear masks if within six feet of each other. Even toilet paper is a rare commodity. Through this project, you will consider the many ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected your community and society as a whole. Consider public health, employment, government, travel, and how we celebrate our life events.
Each week, we will send you teaching suggestions and a few examples of our best and most popular resources. For more ideas to infuse enrichment activities with your curriculum, please visit the Unit Supplements on the Teacher Site, under “Teach.” We can also link these enrichment resources to your regular curriculum if you send us a theme or topic.
Thanks for being a part of the Renzulli Learning family and we hope you find these resources helpful.
Your Renzulli Learning Team