1. Mondays 6:30-9:00 pm North Seattle Community College, IB 1409 Candice Hoyt, Instructor Course online: http://northseattle.angellearning.com/http://northseattle.angellearning.com/

2.  Curriculum requirements  Documentation  Phase 3 examples  Books & book binding  Upcoming Assignments  Small group topic time  Wetlands projects  Plan Phase III (presentation)  Children projects  Discuss in mixed groups

3.  Relate to school or program’s goals, objectives, developmental checklist or curriculum guidelines  For acquisition of skills, knowledge or dispositions (disposition = child’s orientation, motive or interest)  Teacher anticipatory web, teacher journal and continuous re-planning  Group & individual content and performance standards  Videotape webbing (etc) to separate out individual development  Project as context  Documentation as proof  Successive points in time  Checklists  Recorded observations

4.  Literacy  Young Investigators, p. 72+  Complex vocabulary  Spontaneous desire to write or read  Direct instruction necessary but project is context for use and development, and inspiration/motivation  Major goals of projects = children will do & improve on…  Representation (drawing, etc)  Reflecting on their own learning

5.  Math / Science  Investigation/ experimentation cycle, Young Investigators, pp. 68-69  Formal assessment:  “Work Sampling System” (Meisels et al, 1994; Young Investigators)  Project success based on:  Child engagement (pp. 65-66) &  Curriculum requirements & standards achievements

6.  Anticipate interest & direction of inquiry  Anticipatory web in Phase I & revise/re-web throughout Phase II  Plan possible activities  Likely to emerge based on continued “play” with current activities/materials  Specific activities to meet curriculum/etc requirements  Plan materials for possible activities to be on-hand  Use insight and relationship with the children to anticipate where their interest will lead

7.  Simple, professional but personal documentation means more than child’s products  Documentation planning, Young Investigators, p. 64  “Distilled” (formatted) documentation, Young Investigators, p. 65  Narrative examples  Young Investigators, p. 63  Windows…, pp. 171 & 175

8.  Children’s interest wanes or possibilities for further project investigation exceeds children’s capabilities  Children and teachers develop and implement concluding activities & product  Culmination: event and/or product share with audience (peers, parents, community)  Based on running documentation  Use variety of forms (e.g. p. 57)

9.  Fire Truck project, Young Investigators  Questions?  Most interesting/ influencing part  Movie Theater project, Windows on Learning  Questions?  Most interesting/ influencing part  Both were really good topics with lots of possibilities  Drawing fire truck  Drawing a circle is an accomplishment  Planning jobs for the 2 groups

11.  Why a book?  Kids can read their books!  Phase III narrative for parents/ other audiences I.Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? 1.Read the book to the children 2.Have kids draw their own pages 3.You write the text to connect the pages (identical to Brown Bear… format) II.The Important Book by M.W. Brown (also The Important Thing About and Another Important Book) 1.Lists of what there is to know about ____ things, always ending with same as 1 st page 2.Write first – one important detail per page 3.Then kids draw to the words 4.First page and last page = same

12.  “Important” Format:  Title: “The Importance of [Topic]”  Page 1: “The most important thing about [topic] is ___.”  Each middle page: “[Topic] [can/has/does] ___.”  Last page: “But, the most … [same as 1 st page]”

13.  “The Importance of Project Work” by Candice Hoyt  Template:  Book-Binding.pdf  http://facweb.northseatt le.edu/choyt/CCE285/Do cuments/Course- Readings/Book- Binding.pdf http://facweb.northseatt le.edu/choyt/CCE285/Do cuments/Course- Readings/Book- Binding.pdf  We’ll do this next week  Bring your 8-1/2” x 11” pages  We’ll have the materials in class

14. Buy or make puppet and create persona a)Description (post online) = 2 pts b)Dialog Session (in class) = 8 pts i.Manipulation & Voice (4 pts) ii.Dialog (4 pts)  Bring to class on due date:  Puppet & description (printed or in laptop)  Post online on due date:  Post as Word document in A4 drop box  Post as text in A4 discussion (reply for extra credit)

15. Buy or make puppet and create persona a)Description (post online) = 2 pts i.Name ii.Personality, dominant attitude towards world iii.Kind of movements you’d make when animating  Post as Word document in A4 drop box  Post as text in A4 discussion (reply for extra credit) b)Dialog Session (in class) = 8 pts i.Manipulation & Voice (4 pts) ii.Dialog (4 pts)

16. Buy or make puppet and create persona a)Description (post online) = 2 pts b)Dialog Session (in class) = 8 pts Perform social problem in small group i.Manipulation & Voice (4 pts)  Personal movement quiet while puppet talks  Distinctly different voice for the puppet maintained  Character of puppet conveyed in its movement ii.Dialog (4 pts)

17. Buy or make puppet and create persona a)Description (post online) = 2 pts b)Dialog Session (in class) = 8 pts Perform social problem in small group i.Manipulation & Voice (4 pts) ii.Dialog (4 pts)  Concrete example of actual instance described or re- enacted  Two parts played in the dialog  Absent: -2 pts participation  DUE 5/24

18. Choosing a project:  Can do alone or in pairs (self-assign)  Project with 2+ children (pref. 3+)  Project can be investigated directly:  First-hand experience  Representation in art, dramatic play, and a broad range of other expressive modes  Numbers

19. Project Documentation a)Presentation = 20 pts b)Reflection Paper = 7 pts SUBMISSION  Bring to class on Presentation (A6a) due date:  Orally present your project (on 1 st or 2 nd day)  Bring all necessary documentation to present  Submit documentation for all sections  Post online by Presentation (A6a) due date:  Post A6a computerized materials in A6a drop box  Post online by Reflection (A6b) due date:  Post A6b in one Word document in PRIVATE A6b drop box  Post what you want to as text in PUBLIC A6 discussion (reply extra credit)

20. Project Components Summary a)Presentation = 20 pts i.Phase One (8 pts) ii.Phase Two (8 pts) iii.Phase Three / Final Report (4 pts) b)Reflection Paper = 7 pts i.Five key insights gained doing this (2 pts) ii.What you need work on in future (2 pts) iii.Your immediate next step toward ii. (2 pts) iv.Clear and correct writing (1 pt)

21. a)Presentation = 20 pts – see revised instructions i.Phase One (1 pt each = 8 pts) ii.Phase Two (8 pts) iii.Phase Three / Final Report (4 pts) b)Reflection Paper = 7 pts 1)How it arose 2)What you did 3)What children did (exact words) 4)Information they knew (topic web) 5)Questions they had (web/list) 6)Initial representation 7)Parent letter 8)Topic Web Teacher anticipatory web with curriculum notes

22. a)Presentation = 20 pts i.Phase One (8 pts) ii.Phase Two (1 pt each = 8 pts)  What you did for investigations  Evidence of change after investigation – new/revised webs:  Information they knew (topic web)  Questions they had (question web or list)  Teacher web with curriculum opportunities attached  First hand experiences  Representation experiences  Parent involvement  Documentation iii.Phase Three / Final Report (4 pts) b)Reflection Paper = 7 pts

23. a)Presentation = 20 pts i.Phase One (8 pts) ii.Phase Two (8 pts) iii.Phase Three / Final Report (1 pt each = 4 pts) Phase three completion or current status  The culminating event (actual / possible)  Documentation (actual / what might be next)  Skills analysis (analyze complete / up to now)  Children’s reflection (at end / most current) b)Reflection Paper = 7 pts

24. a)Presentation = 20 pts – DUE 6/7 b)Reflection Paper = 7 pts – DUE 6/16  Brief description of your project. i.What were five key insights you gained from doing this? (2 pts) ii.What do you need to work on in the future? (2 pts) iii.Your would be your immediate next step toward that end? (2 pts) iv.Clear and correct writing – and number responses 1, 2 and 3. (1 pt)

25.  Assignments next week (red = not on syllabus):  5/2 – Interval Paper A7b(4)  5/3 – In-class: Completed bound book – In-class: Present wetlands project Phase 1 & 2  Readings  5/3 – Required: Windows on Learning, pp. 85-109  Assignments 2 weeks:  5/9 – Interval Paper A7b(5)  5/10 – In-class: Present wetlands project Phase 3 (product) – In-class work:  (A 4) Bring puppet to work on – due 5/24  (A 6) Bring project documentation to work on – due 6/7

27. Wetland Project Presentation Planning or Project-with-Children Planning