My name is Hayden and my project is about female athletes.What I learned from Genius Hour is you need to be one hundred percent in the sport you want to play. You also have to fully commit to it. Lastly, you should believe in yourself. My message is to do your best and give it 110%. How I learned a lot while doing genius hour. We did a lot of research. It took us nine weeks to complete our projects. On every Tuesday we went to our library and worked on our projects. So those are my thoughts on Genius Hour and my project.
WOW! What a ride this project was. I learned about Genius Hour at NCTIES and was very excited to start it with my class when I returned from the conference. We are constantly telling our kids what they need to learn and they have very little choice in what they are learning. This project is all them, they came up with their passion project. We did several weeks of brainstorming and developing driving questions. Once the students had their driving question they were off to do some research. My students worked at their own pace and decided how much effort to put into the project. After the research portion of the project, the students how to chose how to present their information. Each student decided what they wanted to do. Some explored iMovie and made incredible videos. Others wanted to dive into Google Slides and make a presentation. We even had some Bare books created that will be in the library for the check-out rotation. ...
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