The grade 7 students created a genius project. There are photos at the bottom of the post.
What is Genius Hour?
Genius hour is a movement that allows students to explore their own passions and encourages creativity in the classroom. It provides students a choice in what they learn during a set period of time during school. It’s not easy to determine where the idea was originally created, but there are at least two events that have impacted genius hour.
Genius Hour Origins
The search-engine giant, Google, allows it’s engineers to spend 20% of their time to work on any pet project that they want. The idea is very simple. Allow people to work on something that interests them, and productivity will go up. Google’s policy has worked so well that it has been said that 50% of Google’s projects have been created during this creative time period. Ever heard of Gmail or Google News? These projects are creations by passionate developers that blossomed from their their
20-time projects.
by best-selling author, Daniel Pink. In a blog post he writes about how the Google-time projects are also used in other corporations.Carly came to visit our class and taught the children sign language. They learned how to sign please and thank you as well as some different animal names.
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| Meet Carly |
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| Sign for 'turtle' |
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| Sign for 'rabbit' |
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