Genius Hour
Hopefully, your student will share with you about Genuis
Hour today. If you do not hear about it here is some information.
On
every other Friday this year, when we do not have Specials, we will be
incorporating 'Genius Hour' into our classroom. Genius Hour allows students the
opportunity to choose something to research and learn about, that they have
wondered about and/or been interested in. Students decide on a question that
they want to discover the answer to. Then, they submit their question to me for
approval. If the question can be answered too quickly, it will not be approved
for study. It must be a genuine question that requires research, study and
learning something new.
Once
they have completed their research, students must then create a presentation to
share with the rest of the class, to teach what they have learned. The presentation can be a poster, a paper
book, or a digital presentation on the IPAD.
Most
of the research and presentation will be done during Genuis Hour at school,
however, you may help your student at home with the research and presentation
as long as it is just help and they are still doing the project.
We
will work on the first Genius Hour project for several weeks and then have the
students present them. Once that
happens, we will start the process again and the students will get to chose a
new topic to study.
I am so excited about this addition to our class this year and I can't wait to see what the students learn and present. I have attached your student’s inquiry question so that you can keep up with how they are doing.
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