Engaging Children's Minds The Project Approach, Second Edition

Subjects:

• Education » Childhood & Elementary Education
• Education » Education (General)

Reviews:

• ...this book clarifies and articulates the process and benefits of the project approach. These specific examples outline how children's intellectual development is enhanced. Years of working with teachers and young children from preschool to primary age provide the author woth first-hand experience for employing the project approach. Helpful guidelines will aid teachers in working with this approach comfortably in order to gain the interest of children and in order for those children to grow and flourish mentally.
  —Adolescence Fall 2002

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword to the First Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Chapter 1. Introduction to the Project Approach
• Chapter 2. Principles of Practice in the Early Years
• Chapter 3. Project Work in Action
• Chapter 4. Features of the Project Approach
• Chapter 5. Issues in Selecting Topics for Projects
• Chapter 6. Teacher Planning
• Chapter 7. Phase I: Getting Projects Started
• Chapter 8. Phase II: Projects in Progress
• Chapter 9. Phase III: Concluding Projects
• Chapter 10. Drawing in the Context of a Project
• Chapter 11. The Project Approach in Perspective
• Appendix A. Houses: How Are They Built?
• Appendix B. Guidelines for a Project on Seedpods
• Appendix C. Dramatic Play in the Hospital
• Appendix D. Instructions for Children: How to Make your Own Book
• Appendix E. Project Webs for Going Shopping, Weather, and a Construction Site
• Appendix F. School Bus Webs for Younger and Older Children Appendix G. Zoom Web on Homes
• Appendix H. A Walk Around the School
• Appendix I. Project Web for "How we Get our Fish"
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index