10.B.ECb – Early Learning Project

Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Math Is Everywhere

Keep children engaged when you have to wait

10/09/2019

All About Gardens

Projects are the part of the curriculum that involves children in investigating objects and events around them that are worth knowing more about. Project work is a way of uncovering a subject rather than just covering it. A project focusing on gardens has the potential to involve the entire class, the children’s families, and community…

03/13/2017

From Door to Door: A Project about Doors and Gates

Projects are the part of the curriculum that involves children in investigating objects and events around them that are worth knowing more about. Project work is a way of uncovering a subject rather than just covering it. Doors are so much a part of our daily lives that we tend to take them for granted.…

03/13/2017

Changes in the Trees around Us

Projects are the part of the curriculum that involves children in investigating objects and events around them that are worth knowing more about. Project work is a way of uncovering a subject rather than just covering it. Most young children growing up in Illinois have opportunities to observe and study the dramatic seasonal changes that…

03/13/2017

Investigating Wheels

A project is a part of the curriculum that involves children in investigating objects and events around them that are worth knowing more about. Project work is a way of uncovering a subject rather than just covering it. A project on wheels has the potential to involve the entire class, the children’s families, and community…

03/13/2017

Where the Chick Came From

This clip suggests some of the benefits of introducing very young children to live animals.

01/13/2017

Talking about Waterslide Models

The children in the study group used a commercially made marble run to learn about how materials move on ramps and slides.

01/13/2017

Magnets and Cars

The teacher took the 3- and 4-year-olds to visit the automotive lab next door to the classroom. The next day she asked the children to predict what parts of a car would attract a magnet.

01/13/2017

Ideas about a Marble Run

Along with another mixed-age classroom, the preschool class has been investigating ways to turn the school playground into an outdoor learning area.

01/13/2017

An Engineer Changes His Mind

Along with another mixed-age classroom, this class has been investigating ways to turn the school playground into an outdoor learning area.

01/12/2017

Counting Chickens

This video shows preschool children engaged in mathematical thinking and in complex use of language as they watch chickens in a pen on their school playground.

01/12/2017

Project Approach for Preschoolers

Preschoolers like to investigate! They enjoy learning about the world around them. The Project Approach involves children in studies of things nearby that interest them and are worth knowing more about.

01/05/2016

Fun at Home with Preschoolers: Let’s Measure!

Here are some home activities that can help your child learn basic measurement concepts.

11/09/2015

Math and the Project Approach

Young children develop math competencies when their teachers know what math concepts and skills young children are most likely to be ready to learn and should know (Illinois State Board of Education, 2013) and when teachers know where each child’s individual level of progress and performance is in relation to mastery of those competencies.

01/15/2014