I hope you had a good break. I am interested in hearing what you did over the summer! On the first day of school Mr. Delemeester and the students will answer warm-up questions and then use the warmup answers to share their names and an interesting fact about themselves. After we introduce ourselves we will navigate to MrDelemeester.com and look at some of the topics we will be studying in Science Class this year and review class procedures and teacher expectations.
We will also discuss how Mr. Berthiaume (the Superintendent of New Lothrop Area Public Schools) and Ms. Kuchar, (our new High School Principal) have agreed to allow some time during class to try innovative Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) enrichment activities.
Our goal for the first two days of class will be to become familiar with each other, gain an overview of science class, become introduced to the classroom rules and teacher expectations, and to think about something special and challenging that we can do this year.
We will watch a video published by Gallit Zvi, an elementary school teacher and Vice Principal in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and review a list of idea starters provided by a teacher named Denise Krebs who currently teaches English to 5th Grade Students in Bahrain (don't know where that is? Google It!).
I would like students to consider things we could do with our special time...
- Write a Novel
- Share Your Knowledge
- Design a Video Game
- Build a Killer Robot
- Direct a Blockbuster Movie
- Compose a Symphony
- Change the World
Some questions we should ask about ourselves and the world around us are...
- What new idea do you want to develop?
- What have you been wanting to try?
- What skill can you master?
- What tool can you learn that will help you work better?
- What tool could help you create something beautiful?
- What tool could help you communicate better?
- How can we make it better?
- How can we make each other better?
- How do we know this to be so?
- Is this what is needed most?
- What is it we hope to accomplish and what’s stopping us?
- What are we most proud of?
- What is possible?
- When can we start?
- How will we prevent failure?
- How can we make this happen?
- Who can make this happen?
- What do we regret most?
- How can we make the best use of…?
- What if we…?
The assignments for the first two days of school are to review the syllabus and expectations documents handed out in class with their parents and return them signed, and to think of something special to do this year and add a comment about it to this blog post.
genius hour sounds fun
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ReplyDeletei think it would be a great learning experience to do Genius Hour, because it would be better for most people and easier to write/learn about a topic that you enjoy, rather than what a topic a teacher enjoys.
ReplyDeleteIt would be more fun to learn interesting things that you want to learn about instead of being bored while you learn something you don't.
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ReplyDeleteSome thing I would like to do this year is the genius hour. I think it would be fun to research about what ever you want to.
ReplyDeleteI would like to do 3D printing
ReplyDeleteI`d like to do VEX robotics because I really like the idea of making my own ideas come to life
ReplyDeleteGenious hour sounds fun.
ReplyDeleteI would like to work with robotics, robots, environmental.
ReplyDeleteGenius hour is to come up with anything you want and build it if you put you mind to it. For example, I want to have a sports computer. A sports computer is where I would build a computer that only plays sports games and lets you watch a sport game
ReplyDeleteThis year, I would like to build a robot. I think it would be a great class project, and it would be fun for everyone. I also think a 3D printer would be cool
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ReplyDeleteMore science experements because they are a lot more fun than normal learning
ReplyDeleteI want to do Genius Hour.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to learn about robotics and 3-D printing.
ReplyDeleteSome of the things I want to do this year are to build and program our own robots and code.
ReplyDeleteI think it might be fun to make a movie, or something similar, T.J.
ReplyDeleteThis year in science i would like to learn about robotics and environmental things.
ReplyDeleteI would like to do 3-d printing.
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ReplyDeleteReminder to students... Please do not give your full names when adding comments to this blog :)
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ReplyDeleteI'd would like to learn about 3-D Printing
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to do 3-D printing this year. -Nick Locatelli
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ReplyDeletethis geunious hour sounds very interesting
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ReplyDelete3D printing sounds fun and I can't wait to learn how
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ReplyDeleteI would like to nature walk
ReplyDeleteI want to make some stop motion videos
ReplyDeleteI would like to do 3D printing and the nature walk
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