Genius Hour Posts
Click on the numbers to view a variety of blog posts on these topics from Genius Hour. Baking Challenge 1 2 3 4 5 6 Remote Control Cars 1 2 Erector Set 1 2 Minecraft 1 2 3 Photo Album Tee-shirt Decorating Basketball Shots 1 2 Chocolate Survey 1 2 3 Music Video 1 2 [...]
Krebs’ Class Wisdom
My students often share their wisdom and good wishes on the whiteboard in our classroom. Here are some of their masterpieces. Krebs Class Wisdom on PhotoPeach
Painting Barn Quilts: Geniuses at Work
Thanks for visiting our barn quilt blog posts. Click on anyone’s name to read that person’s post about our latest project. (If you don’t know whose to read, just pick your favorite number between 1-33 and go to that blog post.) Enjoy! And we always appreciate your comments. Thanks! Andrew Becca Tyler Justin Chandler Christina [...]
Fortune Cookie Quote
Tyler wrote this sweet saying on the whiteboard this morning. He had seen it in a fortune cookie, and has been sharing it with the world ever since. It’s Monday Mashup, so here’s what I did with the image… I used BeFunky.com. First I cropped the image to just show the quote. Then I edited [...]
Genius Hour
The day before we left for our Christmas break we had our second genius hour. Here are a few photos and products. Christina’s Blog Post Vanessa’s Pearl Harbor project
We Had A Genius Hour
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. ~ Aristotle Last Wednesday we had our first Genius Hour. Here are our learnings and creations. Besides the creating and learning going on, many students were also using new programs for them, such as iMovie, Edublogs, and SchoolTube, for reporting their learning. They made their [...]
Doing the Stuff
Imagination. I love the new commercial for Canon on creativity, imagination, and contributing. You can view it here. Here’s another inspiring one from Apple–Think Different. On November 23, we are going to have a “genius hour”–a time for you to imagine and do whatever you want! Gary Stager shared ten things you can do on [...]
What is History?
First day of school and I wanted to ask this question of my 8th grade geniuses: “What is History?” They wrote some deep thoughts, considering it was 80+ degrees in our room and 9:00 a.m. on the first day after a long summer of freedom. Here are the significant things they had to say: Then [...]
Filling Our Iowa School with the Gulf Oil Spill
As a teacher, I delight when I can answer a question with, “I don’t know, but let’s find out!” What is even better is when students enthusiastically join the pandemonium! Today is the one-year anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Yesterday my science students and I listened to an [...]
Shape Poems
Students created some wonderful shape poems. The assignment was to use words to create a picture of something they were passionate about. I think their work shows both passion and genius. Class of 2016 Class of 2015
