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“Take Me Outside”: An Early Years, Urban/Rural Environmental Inquiry
The goal of our project incorporated outdoor learning as part of our weekly timetables. The outdoors became natural extensions of our classrooms both in the urban and rural settings. Educators fostered deep connections to the natural world.
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Wonder Wagon: Inquiry Outdoor Learning with the Four Frames
Create a “Wonder Wagon” as a portable resource for outdoor learning for all seasons. Connecting our indoor and outdoor classroom environments to enable spontaneous and planned inquiry learning in kindergarten and the four frames.
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Creating a PLC Within the Kindergarten Division Based on Implementing STEM/STEAM Activities Within Project-Based Learning
Our goal is to create a PLC to research/implement STEM activities and makerspaces into project-based learning in FDK to make learning more engaging, authentic and self-motivating for students and educators, and to share this learning with others.
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Coding in Kindergarten and its Impact on Mathematical and Literacy Development
The Coding in Kindergarten project highlights the importance of developmentally appropriate coding opportunities for our youngest learners in order to foster their spatial reasoning, estimation, numeracy, oral literacy and problem-solving skills.
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Using Technology to Enhance Communication and Critical-Thinking Skills in Kindergarten
Identifying various open-ended/content-creation iPad apps that enhance and develop students’ oral communication and critical-thinking skills at the kindergarten level. Students use these apps to document their learning and show their thinking.
