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Contextual Learning Portal

Connect with others who are creating contextual learning experiences in classrooms and out-of-school settings. Browse projects and resources and submit your own. Be inspired by others; get insights into ways of planning and organizing projects; find resources; and share your results!

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What is Contextual Learning?

What's New?

Reflection Questions & Resources: http://resources21.org/reflection

Guide to Contextual Learning: http://resources21.org/cl/guide/contents.asp

Contextual learning projects engage students in academic work applied to a context related to their lives, communities, workplaces or the wider world. Projects may range in length from a single class period to a semester-long exploration. Projects may take place in after-school or summer programs or in work-based learning programs as well as in a regular classroom.

What are the Projects About? A Tag Cloud

adaptive-technology animals Animation Anti-bullying architecture art arts biography biology books build-it card-games career-pathways careers carpenty children civic-literacy communicating community community-garden community-needs composting conflict-resolution construction-design cooking cooking-math CSL cultural-exchange culture dance Daycare diet disabilities ecology economics ecosystems endangered-species engineering English-language entrepreneurship environment erosion control fashion-design fitness food-pyramids food-security forensics friendship game-boards gardening genetics geometry Government Grade-Wide greenhouse green-in-middle health healthcare high-school-transition hip hop & writing history homework honey-bees horticulture hunger ice-cream interdiciplinary intergenerational international-pen-pals internet-safety invasive-species investment IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires kitchen-science leadership life-skills/vocational literacy marine math media mentoring museum nature-trail nutrition peace/tolerance peer-education physics Pittsfield-Public-Schools poetry poverty professional-development Public Speaking and Writing public-service-announcement race reading reading-strategies recycling Research safety salt-marsh science -Select- self service service-learning sewing Spanish-language special-needs statistics storm water management surveys sustainability tax-preparation teaching tolerance tree planting universal-design vegan veterans Video Production web-design wetlands women history women science women sports woodworking world-issues writing

Purpose of the Contextual Learning Portal

The intent of this web resource is to provide a place for the sharing of curriculum and instruction techniques in a virtual professional learning community. It seeks innovative, contextual based solutions to gaps in student learning. Reference in this web site to any specific products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.