Chicagoland Project Approach Summer Institute | Kohl Children’s Museum via kwout

On July 23 and 24, 2009, Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago will host the Chicagoland Project Approach Summer Institute: two days of interactive workshops and experiences.

Lilian G. Katz, Ph.D., and Sylvia C. Chard, Ph.D. are offering a four day institute on the Project Approach at the University of Illinois, Urbana Illinois.

This experience is designed to enable teachers to implement the project approach in their own classrooms.  Principals and whole school staffs have attended in the past and have found the experience to be very beneficial for the quality of the project work introduced throughout the school.

The Engaging Children's Minds institute will take place July 16 - July 19, 2009 on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

More information or to register...

Sometimes children are interested in unexpected places...

These children were in a group visiting greenhouses with a wealth of fascinating plant life.  Yet water was the thing that came to interest many of the boys.  Notice, though, how carefully one boy is holding the delicate aromatic geranium leaf he was given, even as he peers into the murky depths...

Visitors to this site can:
View examples of successful projects undertaken by teachers working with children of different ages and cultures in different parts of the world.
Take a course on the Project Approach.
Follow links to resources available through the internet.
Contact Sylvia Chard to offer a link to online documentation of projects.
Future opportunities will include:
Engaging in discussions through blog activity, listservs, web-based conferences, etc.