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Learners design a board game to help the teacher explain the concepts of integers to other students. They do so by applying the concepts of plotting integers on a number line and performing basic operations on them.
Leading Question
Can I design a board game using integers?
Total Time Required:
40-60 min a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Mathematics & Numeracy, Literacy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Low
Learners will design a stadium to help their school/ community become a local cricket hub. They will explore concepts of perimeter, solve word problems using different operations, and carry out multi-step calculations as they design different aspects of the stadium. Finally, they will propose to their community members to build the cricket stadium they design.
Leading Question
How can I make my community/ school a local cricket hub?
Total Time Required:
40-60 min a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Mathematics & Numeracy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Low
Learners will design a stadium to help their school/ community become a local cricket hub. They will explore concepts of perimeter, solve word problems using different operations, and carry out multi-step calculations as they design different aspects of the stadium. Finally, they will propose to their community members to build the cricket stadium they design.
Leading Question
How can I make my community/ school a local cricket hub?
Total Time Required:
40-60 min a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Mathematics & Numeracy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Low
Learners understand the concept of decimal numbers and learn how to add, subtract and multiply them. They use these concepts to design their dream towns!
Leading Question
What will it take to design my dream town on a fixed budget?
Total Time Required:
40-60 min a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Mathematics & Numeracy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Low
Learners will plan and run their food stalls and determine how much profit they make from them. They will use and apply concepts such as operations on fractions, rounding numbers off, averages of numbers, and making and solving linear equations with one variable to do so.
Leading Question
How much profit can I make from a food stall?
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Mathematics & Numeracy, Literacy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Medium
Learners will revise basic 2D and 3D shapes. They will also learn about the different types of angles, triangles, and perimeter. They will use these concepts to build a model of their dream hostel using easily available materials from their surroundings.
Leading Question
What will my dream hostel look like?
Total Time Required:
40-60 min a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Mathematics & Numeracy, Social Emotional Learning
Resources Required
Medium
Learners will explore elements of storytelling, including details, characters, plot and literacy techniques. They will then design and create their own books harnessing the literary and creativity skills they have acquired.
Leading Question
What makes a story interesting?
Total Time Required:
5 hours over five days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Social Emotional Learning, Literacy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Low
Learners will explore what it means to be a refugee, and how refugees are protected by international human rights and gain a deeper understanding of the challenges they face.
Leading Question
What is a refugee and how do people become refugees? What is it like to live as a refugee?
Total Time Required:
4 hours over 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Social Sciences, Social Emotional Learning, Literacy
Resources Required
Low
M-Education Alliance Award (Crisis and Conflict Response)
USA, 2021
World Innovations Summit For Education (WISE) Award
Qatar, 2022
HundrED Innovations Global Collection
Finland, 2022
QS-Wharton Reimagine Education (Access, Diversity, and Inclusion)
USA, 2023
HGSE Alumni Council Award for Impact in Education
USA, 2024
Open Education Awards for Excellence
Qatar, 2024
Anthem Awards
USA, 2024
Resource Categories part two
Playlists
PBL resources organized by theme to give learners a more focused learning experience
Learning Packages→
Ready-to-use, holistic, and interactive student-facing tools that combine our existing IFERB resources into month-long workbooks.
Innovations Development Directorate
Innovation Development in EAA works towards identifying persistent challenges in global education, designing and developing innovative solutions to make learning accessible to all, particularly to the hardest-to-reach children and youth in underserved communities. We created IFERB, an award-winning learning approach with diverse and engaging resources to help children learn from the world around them.