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  1. The Project Approach: The Grocery Store Project
    Go to Record #6470  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.nethowto.net/project/index.php?option=c...
    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...


  2. The Project Approach: The Clubhouse Project
    Go to Record #6472  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.nethowto.net/project/index.php?option=c...
    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...


  3. The Project Approach: The Project on Pets
    Go to Record #6473  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.nethowto.net/project/index.php?option=c...
    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...


  4. 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...


  5. The Project Approach: The Truck Project
    Go to Record #8079  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.nethowto.net/project/index.php?option=c...
    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...


  6. 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...


  7. The Project Approach: The Chicken Project
    Go to Record #9270  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.cds-sf.org/cproject/
    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...


  8. The Study of Bones
    Go to Record #9923  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v5n1/kogan.html
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things
    General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: 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...


  9. Project Katrina
    Go to Record #9924  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n2/aghayan.html
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-4
    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
    Commentary: 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 in other ways by the hurricanes, Katrina and Rita...


  10. A Hospital Project
    Go to Record #10923  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v9n1/sanchez.html
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 4-5
    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
    Commentary: 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 it in Chicago and find wonderful ways to involve parents in the process.  (author/nmb)..


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