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Instill 21st-century skills more effectively than teaching to a test. As an interactive platform for student-centered inquiry and project-based learning, Project Pals helps you streamline and organize independent assignments and group projects. The updated-in-real-time collaboration workspace enables students to visualize information, create meaning, and methodically solve problems across disciplines, while centralizing your assessments, feedback, and project management.
Access our Catalog of Common Core-aligned projects and assignments developed by other teachers and Project Pals staff, or create your own.
Students create project assets, import media, and visualize relationships within an interactive and collaborative workspace updated in real time.
Every individual and team contribution in the platform is tracked and reported through Project Analytics Create your own rubric or use one from Project Pals.
Create a learning hub by publishing projects to a School Library, plus share student work with peers and parents.
Project Pals guides students in breaking down problems and forming relationships to find meaning, thus leading to improved understanding and retention.
Rooted in cognitive research, our methodology promotes personal and social responsibility, communication, critical thinking, visualization, and decision making.
Arm students with the ability to methodically approach problem solving—in any situation—for the rest of their lives.
"Project Pals helps students visualize the most difficult aspects of creating a successful project, in easy to understand steps. The transparency tools allow me, as the teacher, to check each project status from my mobile device and share important project resources in real time."
"Projects Pals offers a consistent method for deconstructing and examining problems, facilitating collaboration, and piecing together viable solutions."
Explore our free resource library for ideas, research, and projects designed and developed by teachers and Project Pals staff.
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STEM Coordinator and Teacher
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