IELDS Standard: 6.D.ECb
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Helping Children Take Surveys
Children can use surveys just as adults do—to collect information from other people. Surveys can help them find out about others’ opinions, preferences, predictions, and experiences. Taking part in a survey can spark children’s personal interest in a project and increase their engagement with the topic, with classmates, and with others around them. A class…
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Helping Children Sketch and Draw from Observation
A sketch is a quick drawing that shows interesting features of something observed. Drawing, on the other hand, usually refers to a more careful process that includes greater attention to detail. All drawing involves skills, techniques, and tools that are basic to the visual arts, but making sketches or drawings from observation is not necessarily…
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Things to Sit On
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 “Things to Sit On” has the potential to involve the entire class from the…
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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…
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Observing Chickens on the Playground
Teachers have given children an opportunity to observe chickens during free play, after first having arranged some activities that allowed the children to become somewhat familiar with the chickens in another setting.
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Bouncing Balls
During circle time, the children played a guessing game about balls.
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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.
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Time for Preschoolers: In Sequence!
Here are some activities that can help children find out more about sequences.
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Path to Math: Word Problems for Preschoolers
Children as young as 3 may enjoy solving simple word problems.
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Path to Math: Real Graphs for Preschoolers
Graphing can be a way for 4- and 5-year-olds to apply what they know about classification, counting, and one-to-one correspondence.
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Path to Math: More Numbers
Here are some ways to help older preschool children learn more about numbers.
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Path to Math: Measurement with Young Children
Measurement activities can help young children understand basic math concepts and learn life skills.
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Path to Math: Beginning Numbers
Here are some ways you can help preschool children learn about numbers.
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Learning Math Through Games
Playing active games is fun for most children, and it can build a strong sense of community in a classroom.