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EJ471383 PS520957
Title: What's So New about the Project Approach?Author(s): Trepanier-Street, Mary
Source: Childhood Education, v70 n1 p25-28 Fall 1993
Publication Date: 1993
ISSN: 0009-4056
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: CIJFEB1994
The project
approach involves an in-depth investigation of a particular topic
that integrates language arts, mathematics, social studies, science,
and the fine arts and extends over a period of several days or weeks.
Discusses new ways to implement this approach in early childhood
classrooms. (MDM)
Descriptors: *Children; *Class Activities; Early Childhood Education;
Integrated Activities; *Interdisciplinary Approach; *Student Projects;
Student Role; *Teaching Methods

