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Direct linkJami Witherell – Reading Teacher, 2025
This article explores the use of Project-Based Learning (PBL) to empower second-grade students to respond to the essential question: "How Can People Respond to Injustice?" Set in an independent school classroom, the investigation invites students to critically engage with historical and modern examples of injustice, using literacy as a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Student Projects, Social Justice
Nell K. Duke; Anne-Lise Halvorsen; Stephanie L. Strachan; Jihyun Kim; Spyros Konstantopoulos – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
This cluster randomized controlled trial investigated the impact of project-based learning with professional development supports on social studies and literacy achievement and motivation of second-grade students from low-socioeconomic status school districts. At random in within-school pairs, 48 teachers were assigned to the experimental or…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Instructional Effectiveness, Grade 2
