using project-based learning to capture your child’s interest!

Using Project-Based Learningto Capture Your Child’s

Interest!

Cynthia Weber

New Morning School,a parent cooperative school in Plymouth

How to motivate a child?

What works?What doesn’t?

Can motivating children can be a challenge?

Brain-Friendly Learning?

learning styles

attention span

movement

eating habits

sleep

What, as educators and parents, are our goals for children?

Independent thinkers?

Problem solvers?

Resourceful?

Life-long learners?

How to make learning

meaningful without the drudgery?

Choices!

Start simple...

Pumpkin Pals...clever way to have children want to write

letters.

Young children love...

How do you do it?

Ways to record ideas

Mind Maps

Topic idea:Dinosaurs

They have a topic, now what?

Now the fun begins!

Drawings

Follow their lead

Your role in all of this?

Things that children like to do

Reggio Emilia

Student presenting her

work.

Colonial StudyWax Museum of Famous People from the

American Revolution

Learned the

Virginia Reel

Lunch - Colonial Style

Time for Chores

Colonial Games

Schoolwork

Afterwards...

Activities are available onlineat http://www.ParentChildEducation.com

The Motivation Breakthrough

Six Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child by

Richard Lavoie

Any questions? cynthia@parentchildeducation.com