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Resources for PBL In the Kindergarten Classroom

  
The islands of Hawaii…what were they like when they were populated with native peoples? Where did those people come from and what happened to them? Are they still there? These are some of the questions we raised at our "entry event" when we had one of our parents come and show us his artifacts and photos from his visit of many years ago to the island of Papua New Guinea. He went there to travel through the rain forest to provide medical services to the native islanders who lived in the deep interior. We couldn't travel back in time to visit the early Hawaiians, but it sure felt like we did as we tried on native headdresses and bone necklaces. The sense of wonder and excitement was created for our project, "The Story of Hawaii". The hook was set. The fun was about to begin...

I curated this list of sites as I went through the Touro University Masters Program, and future cohort members might find it particularly useful as you will cover many, if not most, of these sites during your studies. I also added some of my own PBL site favorites. Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking resource that allows you to make a visual map of frequently visited websites. You have the option of setting one of your Symbaloo pages, or "webmixes", as your home page on your computer. Enjoy! I made this Symbaloo webmix public, so you can search for it in Symbaloo once you make an account, and then add it to your webmixes. Below is a good tutorial on how to create a Symbaloo site. 

 Symbaloo Webmix:

Symbaloo tutorial:

 Below is a good tutorial on how to create a Symbaloo site of your own to share resources on your topic. 

Sharing your webmix:
And here is another useful tutorial for how to share your webmixes either privately through email, Facebook or Twitter, or how to make them public and share them with the world.