Project Based Learning Lesson Plan Template

Plan a whole project on one page: the driving question, the final product, a milestone a week and presentation day.

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Project based learning lesson plan, driving question to presentation day Lines for Project, Dates, Final product, Audience and Presentation day and two lines for the Driving question, then 6 numbered weeks: Milestone, What students make, Check. Skills taught on the way and Resources lines at the foot.
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How it works

This project based learning lesson plan template starts from the question students will answer and the thing they will make to answer it, then works forward through six weeks of milestones.

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From the driving question to presentation day

Write the driving question on the two lines above the table, then the final product and who will see it. Give each week one milestone, what students make by then and how you will check it. The lines at the foot hold the skills you teach on the way and the resources.

A project lesson plan template for one day

One day of the project plans a single class period inside it: a skill for today, a short lesson, what teams do in work time and which teams you will meet with.

  • On day one, fill the need to know list with the class: what we know, what we need to know, how to find out.
  • Milestone check has a row for each of six teams: the milestone reached, what is next and the help they need.
  • The sample is a made-up six-week project in which a class writes and prints a guide to its school garden.

Questions and answers

Is this a PBL lesson plan template?

Yes, for project-based learning, where students are given a driving question and make something to present what they learned. Problem-based learning shares the initials PBL and starts from an open-ended problem; the question lines hold that just as well.

Is there a project based lesson plan template by stage?

Yes. Project in five stages has rows named Launch, Find out, Make, Revise and Present, with the dates, what teams do and what you teach at each stage.

Is there a PBL lesson plan template PDF?

Yes. The print window saves one sheet to a file, on Letter or A4: the project plan is one PDF and the team plan another.

Is there a printable project based learning lesson plan template for presentation day?

Yes. Presentation day plan lists the teams in order, what each shows, the minutes and the questions from the audience. Project reflection prints two to a page for students to fill in afterward.

All 10 sheets

The whole project 3

  • Project based learning lesson plan, driving question to presentation day Lines for Project, Dates, Final product, Audience and Presentation day and two lines for the Driving question, then 6 numbered weeks: Milestone, What students make, Check. Skills taught on the way and Resources lines at the foot.
  • Project in five stages, launch to presentation Five rows named Launch, Find out, Make, Revise and Present, with Dates, What teams do and What I teach columns, for a project planned by stage and not by week.
  • Project plan on ruled lines, seven headings Room to write in sentences under Driving question, What students will learn, Final product and audience, What students need to find out, Milestones, How the work is checked, and Resources and people to ask.

One day of the project 1

  • One day of the project, a short lesson then work time A lesson plan for a single day inside a project: Project, Date and Milestone lines, then Skill for today, Short lesson, Work time: what teams do, Teams I will meet with, What teams show before they leave, and Reflection question.
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Teams and their questions 3

  • Milestone check for six teams Rows named Team 1 to Team 6 with Milestone reached, What is next and Help they need columns.
  • Need to know list for the driving question Three columns to fill with the class on the first day: What we know, What we need to know, and How we will find out, under a Driving question line.
  • Team plan, who does what by when For one team: 8 rows with Task, Who and Due columns and a box to check when a task is done. A What we will make line at the foot.

Presentation day and after 2

  • Presentation day plan, the order of teams Eight numbered rows with Team, What they show, Minutes and Questions from the audience columns. Project, Date, Room and Audience lines above.
  • Project reflection for students, two to a page Two short forms with a cut line between them. Each has Name and Project lines and ruled lines under What I made, What I learned, What was hard, and What I would change.

Filled-in sample 1

  • Sample: a six-week project on a guide to the school garden, filled in Sample. The opening sheet filled in for a made-up project in which a class writes a guide to its school garden: a milestone, something students make and a check for each of six weeks.

How this list was compiled: Our own layout, made for this page on October 8, 2026. Every sheet is a plain form; no school district's, publisher's or program's form is copied, and the sample project is made up. That students in project-based learning are given a driving question and make something to present what they learned follows Wikipedia's article Project-based learning, and that problem-based learning starts from an open-ended problem follows its article Problem-based learning, both read on October 8, 2026. Licence: own work

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