Engaging Children’s Minds
Children have a strong disposition to explore and discover. The Project Approach builds on natural curiosity, enabling children to interact, question, connect, problem-solve, communicate, reflect, and more. This kind of authentic learning extends beyond the classroom to each student’s home, community, nation, and the world. It essentially makes learning the stuff of real life and children active participants in and shapers of their worlds.
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Research Relevant to the Project Approach
It is hard to find research on the Project Approach. However, it is not so hard to find research on related topics. Here are examples of pages which review research that could be helpful to graduate students working on research proposals in this area of education.
1. Research on the Responsive Classroom: http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/about/research.html
... (more)Experience, Knowledge, Wondering and asking Questions
This blog post by Sylvia Chard
The strategy known as KWL (which was originally designed to help students approach the reading of texts) is of questionable value in the context of a project. What seems to help teachers most for real world investigations through the Project Approach is EKWQ (which is more like a tongue twister than a mnemonic!).
E is for Exp... (more)











