Early Childhood Research & Practice

http://ecrp.uiuc.edu
Each issue of ECRP contains a project description by a practitioner. Specific projects include:

• The Lights Pre-project: Implementation of the Project Approach with Children under 3 Years of Age
  http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v13n1/grzegorzewska.html
  Spanish: El proyecto preliminar de luces. Implementación del Método de Enseñanza por Proyectos con niños menores de 3 años de edad
  http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v13n1/grzegorzewska-sp.html
• What Happens at a Car Wash?
  http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v12n2/gallick.html
  Spanish: ¿Qué pasa en un túnel de auto-lavado?
  http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v12n2/gallick-sp.html
• The Canada Goose Project: A First Project with Children under 3
  http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v12n1/brewer.html
  Spanish: El proyecto de gansos de Canadá. Un primer proyecto para niños menores de 3 años
  http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v12n1/brewer-sp.html
• A Valuable Experience for Children: The Dim Sum and Chinese Restaurant Project
  http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v12n1/yuen.htm
  Spanish: Una experiencia valiosa para niños. El Proyecto del restaurante chino y dim sum
  http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v12n1/yuen-sp.html
• Beginning the Journey: The Project Approach with Toddlers
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v11n1/kogan.html
  Spanish: Desde el principio: Desarrollo de proyectos con niños de 2 años
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v11n1/kogan-sp.html
• Investigating the Tallgrass Prairie
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v10n1/burns.html
  Spanish: Una investigación de la pradera de hierbas altas
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v10n1/burns-sp.html
• The Baby Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v9n2/harden.html
  Spanish: El Proyecto de los Bebés
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v9n2/harden-sp.html
• The Hospital Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v9n1/sanchez.html
  Spanish: El Proyecto del Hospital
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v9n1/sanchez-sp.html
• The Birds and Their Nests Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v8n1/elizondo.html
  Spanish: El Proyecto de los Pájaros y sus Nidos
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v8n1/elizondo-sp.html
• Project Katrina
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n2/aghayan.html
  Spanish: El Proyecto Katrina
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n2/aghayan-sp.html
• The Lunch Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n1/floerchinger.html
  Spanish: El Proyecto de Almuerzos
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n1/floerchinger-sp.html
• The Food and Restaurant Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n1/nacif.html
  Spanish: El proyecto de alimentos y restaurantes
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n1/nacif-sp.html
• The Chicken and Egg Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v6n2/alkon.html
  Spanish: El proyecto de gallinas y huevos
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v6n2/alkon-sp.html
• Looking at the Trees around Us
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v6n1/bellous.html
  Spanish: Una mirada a los árboles que nos rodean
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v6n1/bellous-sp.html
• The Llama Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v5n2/ganzel.html
• A Study of Bones
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v5n1/kogan.html
  Spanish: Un estudio de huesos
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v5n1/kogan-sp.html
• The Apple Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v4n2/danyi.html
• Faces to the Window: The Construction Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v4n1/berry.html
• Purposeful Learning: A Study of Water
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v3n2/dixon.html
• The Combine Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v3n1/wilson.html
  Spanish: El proyecto de la cosechadora: una experiencia en una clase bilingüe
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v3n1/wilson-sp.html
• The Hairy Head Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v2n2/gallick.html
• The School Bus Project
  http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v1n2/harkema.html

View more projects at http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/byproject.html

Project Approach Catalogs Online

Available through the ERIC/EECE Archive of Publications and Resources
http://ecap.crc.illinois.edu/eecearchive/index.html

The Project Approach catalogs, which contain project descriptions as well as articles related to project work, are available at no cost on the Clearinghouse for Early Education and Parenting Web site. The first three catalogs, edited by Judy Harris Helm, were prepared for the annual meetings of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The fourth catalog was prepared for a meeting of the Midwest Association for the Education of Young Children.

• The Project Approach Catalog
  http://ecap.crc.illinois.edu/eecearchive/books/project.html
• Project Approach Catalog 2
  http://ecap.crc.illinois.edu/eecearchive/books/projcat2.html
• Project Approach Catalog 3
  http://ecap.crc.illinois.edu/eecearchive/books/projcat3.html
• Project Approach Catalog 4
  http://ecap.crc.illinois.edu/pubs/projcat4.html

Project Approach Web site

Project Approach Home Page
http://www.projectapproach.org

This Home Page, maintained by Dr. Sylvia Chard, Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education at the University of Alberta, presents information on the Project Approach.

Specific projects include:

• Dog Project
  http://www.projectapproach.org/DogProject2010-2011.pdf
  
• Bug Project
  http://polaris.umuc.edu/~vwiest/bugstudy/bugindex.html

University Primary School, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University Primary School Home page
http://education.illinois.edu/ups/

University Primary School is an early childhood gifted education program which serves children ages 3-7. The school is located in the Children's Resource Center on Gerty Drive in Champaign. U.P.S. is affiliated with the Department of Special Education in the College of Education at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Specific projects include:

• How to Stay Safe and Well: Queries into Food and Fire (2 projects)
  http://education.illinois.edu/ups/curriculum2003/
• Expanding Our Horizons: Investigating Music and Measurement (2 projects)
  http://education.illinois.edu/ups/curriculum2002/
• Investigating Our Surroundings
  http://education.illinois.edu/ups/curriculum2001/

Other Publications

• All About Balls: A Preschool Project
  http://ecap.crc.illinois.edu/poptopics/project/allballs.html