Plan a project for your classroom or future classroom. The topic can be based on your students’ interests, a learning event or experience, or on a required unit of instruction, using Project Planning Part One located in Required Studies. Copy and paste th

Plan a project for your classroom or future classroom. The topic can be based on your students’ interests, a learning event or experience, or on a required unit of instruction, using Project Planning Part One located in Required Studies. Copy and paste the Project Planning Part One document into a Word document and type your plans within the document. 

Read the documents below

Projects that Power Young Minds (PDF)

Project Planning Part One (DOC)

Use this document to complete Part One of your plan

Read the following webpage(s)

Seven Essentials for Project Based Learning

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/sept10/vol68/num01/Seven_Essentials_for_Project-Based_Learning.aspx

The Project Approach (Overview, plus go to the menu on the left to view Theory, Learning and Teaching; Planning)

http://www.projectapproach.org/project_approach.php

Systematic Instruction and Project Work 

http://www.projectapproach.org/systematic_instruction.php

Examples of Projects 

http://www.projectapproach.org/project_examples.php

The Project Approach: Meeting the State Standards 

http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v2n1/schuler.html

Project Based Learning and Common Core Standards

http://www.wholechildeducation.org/blog/project-based-learning-and-common-core-standards/

Support Materials

Note: These resources have been provided to enhance your overall learning experience. You will want to review and archive them with your other references.

Program Websites

Buck Institute’s Project Based Learning: 

http://www.bie.org/

The Creative Curriculum:

http://www.teachingstrategies.com/

Edutopia: 

http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-guide

Expeditionary Learning:

http://elschools.org/

High Reach:

http://www.highreach.com/

HighScope:

http://www.highscope.org/

The Project Approach:

www.projectapproach.org

Scottish Storylines:

http://www.storyline.org/Storyline_Design/Welcome.html

Early Childhood Research and Practice:

http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/

Voices of Practitioners:

http://www.naeyc.org/publications/vop

Video Clips:

Project Based Learning: Explained MOV | WMV

Five Year Olds Pilot Their Own Project Based Learning MOV | WMV