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  1. Who Measures What in our Neighborhood?
    Go to Record #6467  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/ups/curriculum2002/measure/...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 2-5
    Topics: Mathematics — Measurement
    General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: 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...


  2. The Project Approach: The Cafeteria Project
    Go to Record #6468  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.project-approach.com/examples/previous/...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning, Home-School Connections
    Commentary: This resource describes an example of a project approach in which preschool children studied the cafeteria in the same building as their school. Among other activities, the children visited the cafeteria, read books, drew pictures, and set up a model cafeteria in class...


  3. The Project Approach: The Hospital Project
    Go to Record #6469  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.project-approach.com/examples/previous/...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: This resource describes an example of a project approach in which preschool children participate in a study of hospitals. The teachers planned the project in response to the children's curiosity about a classmate who had broken his arm...


  4. The Project Approach: The Grocery Store Project
    Go to Record #6470  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.project-approach.com/examples/previous/...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: This resource illustrates the project interdisciplinary planning approach known as the project approach. The approach was used by a teacher in a Canadian day care center to engage students in a study of the grocery store...


  5. The Project Approach: The Project on Ants
    Go to Record #6471  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.project-approach.com/examples/previous/...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: This resource documents the use of a project-style, inquiry-based approach--known as the project approach--in curriculum planning for young children. The Brigham Young University Lab School children and staff find ants in their classroom and begin to ask questions about the situation...


  6. The Project Approach: The Clubhouse Project
    Go to Record #6472  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.project-approach.com/examples/previous/...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning, Learning in Outdoor Classrooms
    Commentary: This resource documents the use of a project-style, inquiry-based approach--known as the project approach--in curriculum planning for young children. Four-and five-year-old children were all actively involved in planning and participating in a project that sprouted from plans to build a cardboard-box house...


  7. The Project Approach: The Project on Pets
    Go to Record #6473  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.project-approach.com/examples/pets/pet_...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: This resource documents the use of a project-style, inquiry-based approach--called the project approach--in curriculum planning for young children. Children in a kindergarten class were all actively involved in planning and participating in a project about pets...


  8. The Project Approach: The Truck Project
    Go to Record #8079  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.project-approach.com/examples/trucks/tr...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Physical Science, Forces and Motion, Making Things Move
    General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: In this project, the five year old children and their teachers began a unit on transportation, during which the children became interested in "big trucks". Pictures of the project activities and discussion of the progression of the project are included...


  9. The Hairy Head Project
    Go to Record #8081  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v2n2/gallick.html
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Social Studies — Economics, Needs and Wants, Community Helpers, Skills and Methods, Sharing Ideas, Researching information
    Commentary: 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...


  10. The Project Approach: The Chicken Project
    Go to Record #9270  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.cds-sf.org/cproject/phase1.htm
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: 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...


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