By: Renu Vashistha

WHAT IS PROJECT WORK?

• A project work is an extended, in depth investigation of a topic.

• What does a project involve?

• Research

• Investigation

• Exploration

• Practical

• Data collection

• Report writing

• Discussion

• Presentation

What do children get out of project work?

Opportunities of holistic development

• To pose questions

• Generate theories

• To predict possible answers

• Interviewing experts

• Teamwork

• Time management

• Enhance knowledge

• Basic academic skills

Basic academic skills

• Listening

• Speaking

• Reading

• Writing

• Knowledge & skills

• Basic arithmetic/Computation

• Comprehension

Development of scientific temperament

• Curiosity to know why & How

• Investigative

• Exploration how things grow & change over the time

• Research strategies how things work and why/how are they made.

• analyzing

• Generate theories

• Extraction

• Application of knowledge or information

Cognitive / Intellectual development

• Ignites Thinking

• Memory & Observation

• Skills of Classification

• Sequencing

• Reasoning& Analysis Skills

• Missing & Matching

• Associating

• Problem solving

Development of conceptual understanding

Aesthetic Appreciation• Creative• Imaginative• Expression in different ways

Development of social and life skills

• Team work

• Time management

• Co-operation

• Collaborate

• Share the responsibility

• Interpersonal relations

• Resourceful

Emotional development Self esteem Self reliantConfident Stress converts into anxiety

Calm

PatientHappiness Satisfaction S

Physical development

• Involvement /Participation makes them active

• Laziness takes up the back seat.

The Project Approach in action

• Like a good story a project has

• A beginning

• A middle

• An end

The Beginning

• Brain Storming

• Selection of the topic

• Help them to develop a question their investigation will answer

• Designing of circular for the parents to help them out.

• The middle- developing the project

• Provide opportunities

• Field work

• Provide resources

• Documenting the project

The End-Concluding Project• Data Analysis• Report Writing • Conclusion

• Presentation(can involve- Art/stories/drama/ppt)

Thank you