Teacher Created Project Based Learning Units and Resources
     You have arrived at the website for educational resources for elementary and middle school teachers and students for content areas.  These resources presented here are designed with 5th grade level in mind but they can be adapted according to how and where these units are used. Now that I have moved up to 6th grade, units for middle school will be coming soon. They all incorporate the use of the internet and other technology.  In time, we hope to offer resources for a wider variety of grade levels and subjects.
     All of the projects on this page were developed by Rob Curry, unless noted otherwise.  The knowledge to create them was from taking  National Semiconductor's Global Connections Course (since discontinued) centering on web page building and Intel's Teach to the Future Program  which taught me how to use multiple components of technology in the classroom. 
     More recently, I have learned tremendous technology skills through Foothill College's LINC program at their state of the art Krause Center for Innovation.  I also have had my students use the past entries available in the library of past ThinkQuest projects as they develop their own Project Based Learning preoducts.

     Special Thanks to the Berryessa Education Foundation for a grant for 1 student computer and more recently, a projector.
   Also, check out the Netscape Composer Tutorial to learn how to build easy web pages.

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Educational
Superhighway
A teaching tool 
whose time has come.
Travel Through Time PBL Unit




Vinci Park School Archive

5th Grade Class Page
Welcome to Room 31
Slideshow
Part 1        Part 2
Faux "News Report"

Class  of 2003  Slide Shows

4th/5th Grade  Combo Class 03-04

Room 34 Class of 2003

Class Slideshow 2002

Room 21 Class of 2001

Room 10 Class of 2000

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I am always open to comments and questions, so feel free to contact me!


Webmaster  Rob Curry 
Piedmont Middle School
San Jose, CA
rdcurry@sjteach.org 


5th Grade Resources for BUSD Adopted Materials
Social Studies/History Projects:
Native American Project
Explorer Project
California Missions Project
Webquest: Patriot or Loyalist?

Slavery Project: "North American Slavery through the Eyes of the Enslaved" Using Primary Source Recordings
State Report Project

Assumed Colonial Identities Project



View our
 "Amazing Aquatic Adventures"
Collaborative Multimedia Project

Winner of the 2005 California Multimedia Festival Award for Multi-Grade Collaboration


Science Projects
What's the MATTER?
5th Graders "adopt" an Element PBL unit
Animal Research Project
Food Science:
Fast Food Nutrition Project
The Planets of Our Solar System
Language Arts
Book Reports Using Multimedia
Hatchet
In the Year of the Boar and J. Robinson
Little House on the Prairie
Biography Book Report Project
Great Links for Great Teachers

The following are links created by others that fit well into the Upper Elementary - Junior High Grade Curriculum:
 
Social Studies

Jamestown Adventure

Explorer Biographies

PBS: Liberty-The Road to Revolution

Am. Revolution Thematic Unit

The Oregon Trail

Country Studies

Explore the States

National Geographic GeoBee Online Quiz

Ben's Guide to the US Government
Grades:  3-5  and  6-8

Science Web Guide

Developed by NSTA WebWatchers, including 2002 team member, Rob Curry.  Funded by :

Solar System

NASA: Solar System Simulator

National Geographic

BBC: Space
 

Biology

BBC: Human Body

Curt's Human Disease Project

Berryessa Union 
School District
Curriculum Resources

4th Grade Resources

5th Grade Resources

Creating Class
Web Pages

Nov 2004 Workshop

BUSD Workshop
March 12, 2003 - Presnted by Rob Curry
Using Technology and Multimedia in the Content Areas
 

Cyber Safetyfor Kids
A Web Guide from Disney
 


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