Other Inquiry Projects
Educators across the country and beyond our borders utilize interest-based inquiry projects in their classrooms. Explore the following projects to further expand your understanding of the project approach and see what amazing learning can happen when children are given the opportunity to become active partners in the learning process.
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This resource is a description of a project done in a K/1 classroom, but this topic could also be a project in a preschool or five year old classroom. The information presented on how the project worked for the teachers in this classroom is a very important part of the resource.
Topics: Mathematics — Measurement. General — Project Approach to Learning
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 2-5
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This resource documents the project by a class of 3 to 5 year olds in a Midwestern child care center. They chose to study hair and hairstyling salons as their group project.
Topics: Social Studies — Economics, Needs and Wants, Community Helpers, Skills and Methods, Sharing Ideas, Researching information
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 3-5
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The chicken project began after one boy successfully caught one of the school's chickens and shared his enthusiasm about this new skill with his father's preschool class. he would catch and carry the chicken to the room on a daily basis so the young children could observe and draw the chicken.
Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 3-5
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This project on bones was completed in a bilingual school in Mexico City with children of variety of ages from 2 to 6. While the kindergarten children worked on a human body theme, the children started telling stories about their experiences with doctors and getting hurt.
Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things. General — Project Approach to Learning
Resource Type: Research and Reference
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The documentation of Project Katrina describes a spontaneous project that emerged from a group of 3 and 4 year old children in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. The article describes how the teachers adapted the classroom and curriculum to meet the diverse needs of children who were evacuees, as well as those children who were affected...
Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Earth and Space Science, Earth Processes and Materials, Weather and Climate. General — Project Approach to Learning
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 3-4
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The Project Approach is an interdisciplinary approach to the curriculum and this project shows just how much can be accomplished by young children who are given the opportunity to follow their interests, ask questions, find answers, and work together to solve problems. The bilingual class explores many aspects of hospital life as they experienced...
Topics: Mathematics. Science — Science and Technology, Science and Inquiry, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Life Science. Reading and Language Arts. General — Project Approach to Learning, Creating Healthy and Supportive Environments, Home-School Connections, Documentation, English Language Learners, Technology. Social Studies
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 4-5
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This paper presents the reflections of several teachers on their experiences moving from the use of a theme approach in their classrooms to using the Project approach. Some of these teachers were doing their first projects, while others had been working in this way for several years.
Topics: Mathematics. Science. Reading and Language Arts. General — Project Approach to Learning, Creating Healthy and Supportive Environments, Home-School Connections. Social Studies
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 4-5
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The School Bus Project is an example of the amazing accomplishments and learning of preschool children whose teachers utilize the Project Approach. These children investigated their questions about buses by getting in and around school buses, making observational sketches, building a bus from cardboard, and much, much more.
Topics: Mathematics. Science. Reading and Language Arts. General — Project Approach to Learning, Creating Healthy and Supportive Environments, Home-School Connections, Documentation. Social Studies
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 4-5
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This Project Approach article discusses a project about lunch, the food delivery truck, the school kitchen, and the dishwasher which was undertaken by a class of 3 to 5 year old children in a preschool in Iowas. Following a description of the school and the goals of the project, the article presents the three...
Topics: Mathematics. Science — Science and Technology, Science and Inquiry, Scientific Ways of Knowing. Reading and Language Arts — Research. General — Project Approach to Learning, Creating Healthy and Supportive Environments, English Language Learners. Social Studies — Skills and Methods
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 4-5
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In this Let's Learn project one can follow a preschool class as they explore a bicycle shop near the school where all the different sizes, styles, and colors of bicycles stimulate the children to ask to a number of intriguing questions. Using the Project Approach and with the guidance and support of their teachers, the...
Topics: Mathematics. Science. Reading and Language Arts. General — Project Approach to Learning. Social Studies
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 3-5
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Inquiry Projects Can Meet Individual Needs
Come see the documentation of Let's Learn projects, like the Bread-Making Project, that met the individual learning needs of children.
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