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Demonstrate skills related to successful personal and school outcomes.
Try and Try Again (audio)
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Supporting Children’s Social Development: Strategies for Parents and Caregivers
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Children’s Play – More than Fun and Games
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Supporting Resilience in Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
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Helping Children Develop “Impulse Control”
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The Horse Project
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Up Up and Away: The Airplane Project
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The Cow Project
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The Worm Project
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Topic Webs in Project Work: Part 2—Organizing the Children’s Web
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Topic Webs in Project Work: Part 1—Creating the Children’s Web
Lesson Planning in the Context of Projects
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Helping Children Take Surveys
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Helping Children Sketch and Draw from Observation
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Things to Sit On
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All About Gardens
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From Door to Door: A Project about Doors and Gates
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Changes in the Trees around Us
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Investigating Wheels
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Going Camping
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Dual Language Use During Choice Time
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What’s in the Box
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Transitioning
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Straw Painting
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“She Goes First”: Cooperative “Housekeeping” Play
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Shaving Cream
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Sara Measures
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The Right Word: Conversation and Print During Pretend Play
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Please Pass the Water
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One Morning in the Block Area
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One Morning at the Construction Table
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Observing Chickens on the Playground
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Mozart Jazz Freight Train
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Mila Sticks With Art
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Mila Paints the Fence
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Magnets and Cars
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Ideas about a Marble Run
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Getting to Know Rabbits
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Flubber
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Exploring Windshield Wipers
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Exploring Trees on the Playground
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Exploring Sound on the Dam
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An Engineer Changes His Mind
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Drawing a Friend
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Counting Crackers
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Constructing a Cradle
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Bouncing Balls
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Bethany Draws a Wheel
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Children’s Social Competence Checklist
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Keep Up the Good Work
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Investigate Together
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Time to Play, Time to Dream: Unscheduling Your Child
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Real Work: Preschoolers Can Help
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Project Approach for Preschoolers
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Say What You Mean! Talking Straight to Children
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Science Play with an Award-winning Toy
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Learning and Growing Together
Get Growing: Planters and Preschoolers
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Get Growing: Planning a Garden with Young Children
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Tip Sheets Aligned to Benchmarks
Time for Preschoolers: In Sequence!
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Project Approach: Helping Children Ask Questions
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Tip Sheets Aligned to Benchmarks
Play and Self-Regulation in Preschool
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Physical Development and Health Lesson Addressing Benchmark 19.B.ECb
Adapting Lesson Plans to Meet IELDS Benchmarks
Science Lesson Addressing Benchmark 11.A.ECf
Adapting Lesson Plans to Meet IELDS Benchmarks
Cooperation in the Preschool Classroom: Class Discussions
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Outdoor Field Trips with Preschoolers: Follow Up!
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Outdoor Field Trips with Preschoolers: Being There!
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He’s Teasing Me!
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Helping Children Seek Knowledge and Understanding
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Perspectives on the Project Approach
Responding to Children’s Interest in a Topic
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The Curious Child
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Take a Bold Approach to Shyness
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