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Even with standardized testing LOOMING…or maybe because of it…we took some time for Genius Hour last week. My students work so hard on their projects; let me share some with you.
When a student moved, this student took over his volcano project:
Next, another boy is writing his own guide to surviving Minecraft. We hope to get it published online somewhere.
This student is half a partnership that is planning a school-wide paper airplane contest:
Another girl wanted to learn more about traditional Native Alaskan housing and is finishing up the interior of a sod dwelling:
This project has been the most difficult to keep moving, my rose gardener. She’s working on her final poster now:
These are her roses:
(I trust you see her frustration.)
After studying salmon, this fourth grader made a life-sized three-dimensional model. He used finger paint and said it had been a while since a teacher let him do that.
He’s created a collage to mail to his favorite ball player, in hopes of an autograph:
She’ll have a Barbie dollhouse when she’s finished:
And soon, this will be a model of Jupiter:
I love Genius Hour because I see my students as creators. We get that sometimes in our other Language Arts work each day, but this hour is when they shine.
Want to learn more about Genius Hour? (The only real answer to that is “Yes!”) Check out the Genius Hour Live Binder or follow #geniushour on Twitter.
