Innovation Time

The Third graders are really enjoying their innovation time. Steven and Stephen are learning about gears, motors and programming.

Allyson, Isabella and Anaiah are all enjoying designing on Sketchpad 5.1 and sharing their work on DIY.org

Jacob and Ryan are learning to code on Tynkercad.com

Lastly Jarrilyn and Phoebe are building models and programming them in Lego WeDo 2.0. 

The students really enjoy learning new technology and applying their creative skills. 

Gifted is ...

For Gifted Education Month students created a Color Symbol Image slide to express how they felt about their gifted services and what giftedness is to them. Above is one example of what students made.

Another Innovation Project

Caroline finished her research on Greek Gods and and Goddesses. She used multiple resources, took notes, and then decided on a method to share her knowledge. She made clay models of each of the Gods and Goddesses symbols, and added a brief description of the god or goddess. During her reflection on her project, Caroline recognized the following thinking skills that she used:
note taking, making models, citing evidence, observing, building knowledge, reading, researching  and writing.

Independent Study on Octopus

I have a student that is passionate about marine life. She did background research on octopus and then took notes on the information she learned. She decided to share her knowledge through clay models of various stages in the life cycle of octopi.

Five Traits of Competent Kids

Third Graders have been working on understanding what it means to be gifted. We have investigated the five traits of competent kids; above average ability, task commitment, creativity, caring and courage. After doing activities on each of these traits, the students made "Poof" books to show how they portray the traits of competent kids. See below for examples.

 

 

Fake News Unit by Brian Housand

This unit is about using the Internet to effectively find information and becoming a critical evaluator of the information found. The kids said of today's activity, "my brain hurts." A good sign that they were challenged with rigorous content.  Here are the three activities we did.

Photography Innovation Project

A couple of students used their innovation time to study photography. They took various photos, edited them using online software and then created a PowerPoint presentation on their work.