…How did students respond to the Curiosity Projects? Here, three sixth graders share their impressions of the Curiosity Projects: Looking forward Not only were the Curiosity Projects wildly popular with…
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“I think every school should do it!” Soup to nuts, curiosity projects — Genius Hour, 20% time or passion projects by any other name — work for students. At Frederick…
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…Scot Hoffman, Mike Jackson, & Sammi Smith’s Google Doc of Curiosity Projects last spring. Their Curiosity Projects are a six-week, inquiry-based research exploration on a topic of personal interest to…
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…time for Joy Projects. You may have heard the terms before: genius hours, passion projects, curiosity projects. But for this moment in time, we feel like we need: a student-driven…
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…like so much of books, right, is about your own curiosity, your curiosity as a writer. And so I try to infuse that into all of my books and hope…
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…Passion Projects, or Curiosity projects to help connect students’ interests to the curriculum. They’re practically pandemic-ready. And it turns out they’ll continue to be amazing even after all this is…
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…know their students. Specifically, they know “Personal Interest Projects” (PIPs, aka passion projects, aka Brainado, aka curiosity projects) work for their students. Charlotte Central students in grades 7 and 8…
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…a quote in the middle of the box, and I don’t remember the exact words. But what I got from it was something like “curiosity is the beginning of knowledge”….
Read more…Projects at Cornwall School, in Cornwall, Vermont. It was our first round of student-led projects. At first, students were thrilled at the prospect of following their curiosity and developing their…
Read more…Call them what you want: passion projects, genius hour, curiosity projects, but these personalized learning projects are a way to jump into personalization and engage students. Now tell us How…
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…projects from there. Because then you’re grounding students in what is special and important in their communities and what they want to improve on. Not solve but improve on. Jeanie:…
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…week for “pod projects.” These are group projects that go in whatever direction the pod decides to take things. Clubs complement pod projects by providing a space where “teachers are…
Read moreFind new uses for data visualization Free, online timeline tools allow students to break free of the traditional two-dimensional timeline and create highly customizable multimedia projects to showcase research, serve…
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…through to Ninja level, for those of you that are really nailing it. And students had to use that discipline-specific vocabulary in their political platform projects. Those platform projects themselves?…
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…questions I’ve been researching are: Will implementing projects or project based learning into my classroom lead to improved results on standardized tests? Will they actually learn the math? This has…
Read more…of the teacher in blended (and personalized) learning. Curiosity projects: a stepping stone to personalization The crucial role of practice in a proficiency based learning environment Now tell us Feel…
Read more…encourage inquisitive investigation, cooperative problem solving, and a curiosity for how the world works. My love for science brought me to Peoples Academy Middle Level in Morrisville, Vermont two years…
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…group of students I have, I can impart some of that curiosity, some of that love of learning to them.” David: My name is David Maika. I am 35 years…
Read more…yeah. Maya: We talked a lot about 21st Century Skills, and passion projects, PLPs, and how we’re going to move towards that. Life: So did you feel like you were…
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…issues. Think Tank students are encouraged to develop new ideas for school and try them out in a supported, structured manner. Think Tank student projects have included ways to reduce…
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…that’s with Legos or writing apps, or anything like that. I’ve just seen, you know, in my visits to different schools? I’ve seen so many amazing projects that kids are…
Read more…“Creative Circuit kits provide girls with all of the materials to make 10+ arts, crafts, and fashion projects with technology” the other offered “opportunities for students to replicate experiments you…
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…risks are you taking? A question / curiosity – What do you wonder about? When do you find yourself commenting “well, that’s interesting…”? What practice(s) do you want to try?…
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…other. That’s because they share a common fundamental underpinning: they honor students’ innate curiosity about the world. Tales from a Tech Integrationist At Proctor Elementary School, project-based learning is in…
Read more…to our arsenal. We’re also given the time to explore for a few minutes which honors our curiosity and gives us a place to explore. Up above is a recent…
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…grow and follow his curiosity about all kinds of things through studying local food systems. Silas: After you eat the apple, the core, if you put it in the trash,…
Read more…work and learning from the day. Like a true self-critic, I thought that their final projects were prettier than mine (or maybe they just used more colorful sticky notes). The…
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…its roots.” The quote-unquote “tree of analysis” helped students clarify what part of the issue they wanted to address in their service projects. And then she provides an example. There…
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…We can respond by taking what we know works, and fitting it to the tools we still have on hand in spades: kindness, curiosity, courage and the genuine excitement of…
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…Dow, for really helping me develop this understanding — is that most kids graduate from Vermont schools without ever learning about eugenics. I have a lot of curiosity around…
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