Genius Hour Idea Submission

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Genius Hour

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We have set aside our Friday afternoons this year for something different, something unique. We will be spending our Friday afternoon's as "Genius Hour". Today our work was to unpack the process by looking at this graphic by Gallit Zvi, as we as a few other info-graphics that now live on our wall. Today we explored our passions, and thought about a few we would like to work on by doing something new, something more, or something different (step 2 of the process as Gallit describes it). Next week we will circle back to these passions and progress toward a project question that will drive our personal inquiry and lay the foundation for a the learning that we will share with the class in a few weeks time (step 3!).

Science Inquiry

On Halloween Day we decided to have some fun building density towers. Students made great observations of our demo tower, asked excellent questions about how we could change the experiment, and then collaboratively designed and conducted experiments using liquids and solids of their choice. It was an excellent morning! 

For many of us one lasting lesson will be not to swirl the old bottles of food colouring found on the Hart Highlands shelves - the plastic may have lost its structural integrity. What a mess!