Engaging Children's Minds The Project Approach

Name: Engaging Children's Minds The Project Approach
Price: 3.6 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781567505016

ISBN-10: 1567505015

ISBN-13: 9781567505016

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Lilian G. Katz, Sylvia C. Chard

List price: $38.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $3.60

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

This new edition incorporates many insights and strategies the authors have learned while working extensively with teachers to implement the project approach. Since the popular first edition was published in 1989, the authors have continued to help teachers around the world understand the benefits of this approach. Katz and Chard discuss in great detail the philosophical, theoretical, and research bases of project work. The three typical phases of project work are presented and detailed suggestions for implementing each one are described. Using specific examples, this book clarifies and articulates the process and benefits of the project approach. These specific examples outline how…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 215
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword to the First Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Preface to the Second Edition



Introduction to the Project Approach



Principles of Practice in the Early Years



Project Work in Action



Features of the Project Approach



Issues in Selecting Topics for Projects



Teacher Planning



Phase I: Getting Projects Started



Phase II: Projects in Progress



Phase III: Concluding Projects



Drawing in the Context of a Project



The Project Approach in Perspective



Houses: How Are They Built?



Guidelines for a Project on Seedpods



Dramatic Play in the Hospital



Instructions for Children: How to Make your Own Book



Project Webs for Going Shopping, Weather, and a Construction Site



School Bus Webs for Younger and Older Children



Zoom Web on Homes



A Walk Around the School



Project Web for "How we Get our Fish"


References Author


Index Subject


Index