Projects are long-term, problem-focused, and meaningful activities that bring together ideas and principles from a number of subject areas or disciplines.

Besides the core subjects and their disciplines, Soundview children work on a long-term project each trimester. At the end of each trimester, children’s projects are presented at a project fair.

Projects are good teaching tools because:

• Projects motivate students to learn about and use a wide variety of literacy and thinking skills
• Projects encourage students to become self-directed thinkers and learners
• Projects give teachers opportunities to use innovative techniques
• Projects can be used both in classrooms and in programs outside of school.
• Projects offer opportunities for students to communicate with a wider audience; with peers in collaborative efforts; with teachers and adults; and with themselves.
• Projects reveal the specific cognitive strengths, weaknesses, and proclivities of the student. The profile includes the student’s disposition toward work (taking risks, persevering)
• Children internalize information and remember more.
• They build children’s self esteem
• They are fun.