18.B.ECa – Early Learning Project

IELDS Standard: 18.B.ECa

  • Teaching and Learning About Native Americans

    Teaching and Learning About Native Americans

    These resources contain information for teachers or parents who want to help young children learn about Native Americans.

  • All About Gardens

    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…

  • From Door to Door: A Project about Doors and Gates

    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.…

  • “She Goes First”: Cooperative “Housekeeping” Play

    “She Goes First”: Cooperative “Housekeeping” Play

    In the clip, Victoria (age 5), Micaela (age 5.7), and Mandi (age 5.8) are engaged in what is sometimes called “housekeeping play.” Speaking in Spanish, they put some of their ideas about family life into action as they pretend to wash dishes, prepare food, and eat together.

  • Developing a Class Album

    Developing a Class Album

    The creation of a class album could work well for the start of the new school year, especially if the children are new to each other and to the teacher.