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Project Approach Inspiring Student Learning in the
Most Authentic Way
Who We Are…We are JK teachers at Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, TN; and we are TRULY passionate about the Project Approach
Carrie Miller
Amy Morrison
Lindy Roberson
Project Approach: What is it?
Truly Student Driven
Centered Around Your Environment
In-depth Investigation
Research and Collaboration used to find answers to questions
posed by students
Organic
Project Approach: What it’s not…
Teacher Directed
Preplanned
Thematic
Fictional
Exercise One:
If you had to go back to school on Tuesday and start a Furniture Project, where would you start and what could/would it look like???
GO!
Phase One
“I wonder…how are
pictures taken?
Choosing your project
Concept Web
Collecting Prior Knowledge
“I wonder…” questions
Phase Two
“I wonder… how is film
developed?”
Student Lead Research
Exploration
Field Visits
Expert Visitors
Observational Drawings
“I wonder…” questions
Observational Drawings
Exploring and Applying
New Information
Field Visits
Phase Three
Representation of Knowledge
Culminating Event
Culminating Event
Project Approach Frame of Mind…
Finding Interests and Making Connections
Resources are EVERYWHERE! Collaboration is KEY
Planning and Problem Solving Make Learning More Meaningful
Workspaces and Materials
Putting things on Pause
Exercise Two:
Now… take these new ideas and…
If you had to go back to school on Tuesday and start a Furniture Project, where would you start and what could/would it look like???
GO!
Junior Kindergarten Furniture Project
The Project Approach By Sylvia Chard
Projectapproach.org
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