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Project Learning for the Multiple Intelligences Classroom

By: Sally Berman

Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781575170770
Published By: Corwin
Year: 1997
Page Count: 176
Publication date: June 01, 1997

Price: $37.95

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Description

Formerly a SkyLight publication.

Project learning is an exciting, challenging, and memorable way of engaging students in active, authentic learning experiences. It immerses students in the process of creating, testing, polishing, and producing a project such as a biography or invention. This book offers step-by-step guidelines for nine different projects ranging from basic to advanced.

Author(s)

Sally Berman

Sally Berman specializes in teaching educators how to use practical strategies that expand student teamwork, cognition, metacognition, and self-evaluation skills. She developed and tested many of her ideas during her 30 years of teaching science in a large Chicago-area high school. Berman regularly presents at workshops and conferences and has taught graduate courses for SkyLight Professional Development in conjunction with St. Xavier University and Cumberland University.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Basic Projects

1. What a Wonderful State!: A Social Studies Project

2. Feeding the Birds: A Science Project

3. Biography of a Senior Citizen: A Language Arts Project

II. Intermediate Projects

4. A Scientist's Discoveries About Human Anatomy: A Health/Language Arts Project

5. It's a Water-Lifterizer!: A Science Project

6. Creating a Field Guide for Manufacturerd Objects: A Visual/Language Arts Project

III. Advanced Projects

7. Are You What You Eat?: A Nutrition/Social Studies Project

8. Designing a Better Shopping Cart: An Applied Technology Project

9. Writing a Children's Science Book: A Science/Language Arts Project

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Index