Project Approach
Phase 1: What do we already know?
- Sharing stories
- Topic web
- Ask questions/wondering
Phase 2: The investigation begins!
- Field experience and guest experts
- Reflect on learning creatively
- Updating topic web
- Ask new questions and narrow areas of interest
- Select a topic of inquiry and start investagating
- Dramatic play or investigation stations
Phase 3: Sharing what we learn with others
- Use our research to create a final culminating project to present to one or more audiences
How can you help?
Donate useful junk:
- Cardboard
- Toilet paper and paper towel rolls
- Shoeboxes or similar
- Posterboard
- Fabric
- Paint
- Sharpies
- Yarn
- Tape (all kinds)
- Wikki Stix
- Legos, Knex, or other building toys
- Other crafting supplies
- Model Magic
Connect us with guest experts or field experiences
Our first project: Rocks!
- Think about: types of rocks, how rocks are formed, fossils, volcanoes, gemstones, etc
- You only have to know more than a first grader knows!