1. Using Project-Based Learning to Capture Your Child’s Interest!

2. Cynthia Weber

3. New Morning School, a parent cooperative school in Plymouth

4. How to motivate a child? What works? What doesn’t?

5. Can motivating children can be a challenge?

6. Brain-Friendly Learning? learning styles attention span movement eating habits sleep

7. What, as educators and parents, are our goals for children? Independent thinkers? Problem solvers? Resourceful? Life-long learners?

8. How to make learning meaningful without the drudgery?

9. Choices!

10. Start simple...

11. Pumpkin Pals...clever way to have children want to write letters.

12. Young children love...

13. How do you do it?

14. Ways to record ideas

15. Mind Maps

17. Topic idea: Dinosaurs

18. They have a topic, now what?

19. Now the fun begins!

20. Drawings

21. Follow their lead

22. Your role in all of this?

23. Things that children like to do

26. Reggio Emilia

30. Student presenting her work.

32. Colonial Study Wax Museum of Famous People from the American Revolution

37. Learned the Virginia Reel

41. Lunch - Colonial Style

43. Time for Chores

55. Colonial Games

62. Schoolwork

66. Afterwards...

67. Activities are available online at http://www.ParentChildEducation.com

68. The Motivation Breakthrough Six Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child by Richard Lavoie

69. Any questions? cynthia@parentchildeducation.com