using project-based learning to capture your child’s interest!
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Using Project-Based Learningto Capture Your Child’s
Interest!
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? [email protected]