ED424036 PS027048
Title: The Project Approach Catalog 2 by the Project Approach Study
Group.
Author(s): Helm, Judy Harris, Ed.
Author Affiliation: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood
Education, Champaign, IL.(BBB34257)
Pages: 146
Publication Date: November 20, 1998
Notes: For 1996 version of this catalog, see ED402068. Catalog prepared
for the Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Education
of Young Children (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 18-21, 1998).
Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement
(ED), Washington, DC. (EDD00036)
Contract No: RR93002007
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC06 Plus Postage.
Availability: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood
Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Children's
Research Center, 51 Gerty Drive, Champaign, IL 61820-7469 (Catalog
No. 219, $10, plus $1.50 shipping in U.S.; $3 shipping elsewhere.
Language: English
Document Type: Collected works--Proceedings (021); Guides--Non-classroom
(055); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Illinois
Journal Announcement: RIEMAR1999
Projects are
in-depth studies of a topic undertaken by a class, a group, or an
individual child. Projects are intended to strengthen children's
dispositions to be interested, absorbed, and involved in in-depth
observation, investigation, and representation of worthwhile phenomena
in their own environments. This Catalog on the Project Approach,
the second of its kind, describes and illustrates 13 projects done
by children in early childhood and elementary classrooms on topics
such as: trees, paper, playgrounds, building, potatoes, balls, cars,
the vet, the hospital, shoes, water, and baby blankets. In addition
to the project descriptions, several articles address a variety
of issues of common concern to teachers implementing the Project
Approach. These include the phases of project work, project topic
selection, the value of drawing in projects, introducing investigation
skills with a mini-project, involving special needs students in
projects, engaged learning and standards of work, and helping students
at various levels of professional training to learn how to implement
the Project Approach. Sections on research and implementation of
the Project Approach in Canada, and on the Internet and the Project
Approach (including listserv discussions), are also included. The
Catalog's final section, "Resources for Implementing the Project
Approach," includes four ERIC Digests, a glossary, a list of
recommended books, an ERIC bibliography on the Project Approach,
information on a Project Approach summer institute, and a list of
contributors to the Catalog. (EV)
Descriptors: Active Learning; Cooperative Learning; Creative Development;
*Discovery Learning; Early Childhood Education; Educational Research;
Elementary Education; Foreign Countries; Freehand Drawing; Group
Activities; Higher Education; Instructional Innovation; Internet;
*Learning Activities; Problem Solving; Special Needs Students; *Student
Projects; Teacher Education; Teaching Methods
Identifiers: Canada; *Project Approach (Katz and Chard); University
of Alberta (Canada)
