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  1. Inquiry-based Learning
    Go to Record #2676  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: This on-line workshop guides users through inquiry-based learning. Organized into four areas, explanation, demonstration, exploration, and implementation, this resource may be used for independent study or as part of a formal professional development session...


  2. Children's Science Journals: Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Assessing
    Go to Record #2882  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.nsta.org/main/news/pdf/sc9702_12.pdf
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Scientific Ways of Knowing
    Commentary: This article from Science and Children outlines a four-phase approach for using science journals. The four phases of journal activity are pre-investigation, investigation, post-investigation, and communication...


  3. The Project Approach for Preschoolers
    Go to Record #8080  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/pro...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: This "tip sheet" provides a summary of the three phases of the project work. This Illinois Early Learning Project page reminds educators that preschoolers like to investigate...


  4. Using an Anticipatory Web
    Go to Record #9402  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.bestpracticesinc.net/downloads/Creating...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: Judy Helm has provided a pdf file that includes her ideas for creating and using an Anticipatory Planning Web. From this pdf one can access the Best Practices Inc...


  5. Lesson Plan Form for Project Work
    Go to Record #9403  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.bestpracticesinc.net/downloads/Planning...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning, Classroom Management, Time Management
    Commentary: The Lesson Planning Form is a format that works well for some teachers of young children. Sections of the form include goals for curriculum and domain areas, time schedule, teacher reflection, environment, book lists, evaluation, and more...


  6. Degree of Student Initiation and Decision Making in Different Approaches to Teaching
    Go to Record #9404  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.bestpracticesinc.net/downloads/9.1%20Co...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: In this resource, Judy Helm provides a visual representation of the continuum of possibilities for child involvement in the decisions about their learning. Varied types of learning experiences such as single concept, integrated concepts, teacher instructed units, thematic teaching, teacher directed inquiry, and projects with in-depth investigation are placed along the continuum...


  7. Documenting Projects: The Project Approach Catalog 1
    Go to Record #9405  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.bestpracticesinc.net/DocumentationinPro...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: How do you know what young children learn while involved in classroom projects? How can you tell the best way to facilitate the children's learning through the project process? How can you help others see the value of project work in early childhood curriculum? These are all questions that teachers may ask, but there is no simple or prepackaged way to answer these questions. In this resource, however, Judy Helm and others do their best to share their experience with documenting the experiences and the learning that happen in projects in ways that will inform and inspire all those involved...


  8. Projects, Engaged Learning, and Standards
    Go to Record #9406  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.bestpracticesinc.net/ProjectsStandards.html
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: This piece excerpted from The Project Approach Catalog 2 (1998) tries to clear the air about project work for young children as it related to high expectations for accountability and achievement and the use of standards by early childhood educators. Dr...


  9. Incorporating Projects into a Traditional Curriculum
    Go to Record #9407  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.bestpracticesinc.net/IncorporatingProje...
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: It may be difficult to introduce the project approach in a school where the other teachers use more direct instructional approaches. This piece offers suggestions generated in a discussion with a teacher in response to her frustrations about this type of situation...


  10. Changing Practice to Include Projects
    Go to Record #9409  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v8n2/clark.html
    Resource Type: Research and Reference
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: General — Project Approach to Learning
    Commentary: This article offers a concise introduction to the Project Approach including a brief history, the three components (content, products, and processes) in the approach, as well as some benefits, and challenges. There is quite a bit of discussion about the resistance teachers have to change in practice and the temptation to adopt a hybrid version of the approach...


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