Arts & Aesthetics

Art and design is all around us, from the objects that we make and use, to the complex systems we participate in, to the ideas we imagine and construct. With a foundational focus on learning and the arts, Project Zero has spent nearly five decades exploring skills and capacities that will help learners of all ages notice, understand, and manipulate their designed world.

Resources

Book
Children Are Citizens Book 2015
Published: 2015
From the Introduction: People from all around the world know about Washington, DC. They talk about it, write about it, draw it, and make movies and TV shows about it. But... Read more
Tool
Messages about learning in a Cultures Of Thinking Classroom
Published: 2014
Overarching themes of the CoT project. Read more
Article
Boston Early Civics Curriculum
Published: 2014
Blog describing curriculum developed by Mardell and others in the Boston Public School kindergartens that recognizes children are citizens. And, examples from BPS K2:... Read more
Article
Engaging City Hall: Children as Citizens
Published: 2014
An article by Krechevsky, Mardell, & Romans putting forth a view of young children as citizens. Read more
Video from ...
Thinking Routines (Video)
Published: 2014