Genius Hour Progress Report

The following link leads to my genius hour progress report. If you have trouble seeing it, please comment below. Thank you.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_VQbKih7YXzBfXSm3MWGIecKO4BKu5-QrfNI_QG6Gag/edit

I also apologize for the delayed post: I didn't realize that my device wasn't loading in the past when I tried to post it.

Summary

            Today, we had a substitude because Ms Lees wasn't here. Today was a very relaxing class for me because we watched a movie about The Crusades and The Middle Ages. We watched it for the whole block and all of us took notes on the movie, something interesting about it and about something we have never known before. But we didn't get to finish the movie. It was getting pretty exciting when we had to change blocks. Too bad so sad.

Learning Intentions

             We watched a movie, but it wasn't a normal movie, it was a movie about The Middle Ages which is related to our PATHWAYS history textbook. I think Ms Lees wanted us to watch that particular movie so we could find out more facts about the middle ages. But I think she wanted to give us a "resting block" at the same time. Also, the notes that we took had some very interesting facts in it about the middle ages. We could use the notes for further references as well.

Reflections

              From watching the movie, I learned bunch of things about the middle Ages. How there were Castles, Palaces, and even small villages in one empire. Also, since the movie had King Arthur in it, the round table with all the knights were interesting to me. Their different types of armors, shields, swords, helmets,... even their horses had armors, too!

Homework Reminders

              We need to work on our Genius Hours and we have to finish our peer review feedback. Read your novels if you haven't already. HACE must be finished today. Respond to our Australian blogging buddies and BRING 4 1 L MILK JUGS ON MONDAY. See Ms Lees Blog for details.

Homework Tips

              If you need help on any of your homeworks, you can always go to Ms Lees' Blog and comment on the posts there.

The Mak App

Kasey and Sapeeda

November 29, 2012 at 5:23 am

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Hi our names are kasey and sapeeda and we are creating a Mac and cheese app. About our app: Well basically we are creating an apple app filled with tons of different Mac and cheese recipes we have 99 different recipes and came up with cool funky names for each and everyone of them. What made us think of this app? to this idea when our lovely teacher ms Lees declined our first idea we had to resort to this idea. When my helpful partner kasey thought then maybe we should make a funny joke app but that sounded like to much work so we both spent days thinking up a new idea when all of a sudden kasey thought maybe we should do a Mac and cheese app and that’s how the idea was born. Why did this idea appeal to us? This idea apealed to us because we both wanted to make an app and we both love Mac and cheese so we both loved the idea. What are the skills we are using? Well the skills we are using are our developing our tech skills and by creating this app we are also developing our technology skills what is the content of the app? The content of this app is that it has about 99-101 recipes all with very original funky names. Where are we at now? Right now we are in the midst of creating our app in fact we have almost finished creating our app it is called the Mac app. We also have created a twitter account @makappgirls and an email address@themakappgirls@gmail.com and please email us for any suggestion or more feed. Thank you for your time we hope to have our app up soon

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Genius Hour Projects

SHARING GENIUS HOUR PROJECTS:

Expanding and improving upon the drop-off/pick-up & parking area zone

Hi, Emily and Maya here, and our Genius hour project is about improving the school’s drop-off/pick-up area along with adding more parking space. The reason for this project is that in the mornings and afterschool, there is a least a 10 minute wait in front of the school to be dropped off or picked up (for the students) by the parents waiting in a line –up in their cars. There is also very little parking space, and this is due to the fact that our school is made for about 1000 students, and currently, we have 1500 students, increasing the school’s desired population by a quarter the amount, and decreasing the amount of space for cars and pedestrians (children) to be able to arrive at school.
Our intentions are to expand the front lanes at the front entrance of the drop-off area, and to add another section for parking, so that the drop-off/pick up area will be more organized, as well as allowing students to arrive to school on time.

This project appealed to us from our own experience of being late or at risk of being late to class, as well as our peers. This is a problem throughout all the grades in our school that cannot be tolerated anymore. Teachers have gone so far as to no longer blame the traffic for the students’ lateness, but have taken to saying that the traffic in front of the school is inevitable, and should always be taken into consideration when coming to school. Do you also have problems with your school’s drop-off area, for example, no parking for cars or traffic in the mornings or afterschool?    

For presenting our project we are going have a presentation on imovie  (a program similar to powerpoint for making slideshows but it revolves more around video and audio) as well as a small speech that we will give during the video to stress out our points and explain information during the slideshow. For the imovie presentation we have interviewed parents, teachers, and students and asked them a few questions on their opinion of the school’s current drop off/pick up area and parking situation. We have gathered information from the students, but not yet from the teachers and parents. However, we already have the imovie and speeches all planned out, and we still would like to add in a map of our to-be-improved school drop off/pick up area as well as where we would have added in additional parking space.
So, in short, we currently have all of our information and planning finished, now we must finalize our good copies that we will present.


Genius hour in general is a free-reigned project that students can come up with independently. It can be about anything that they have an interest in or about something they would like to find out whether the teacher will give them an option, a theme, a smaller topic that they can choose an idea from, or they can brainstorm the idea on their own. This project allows students that want to learn about something (topic)  that they have an interest in so they can learn about it through the process of completing the project.


After reading our intentions/motives/progress, is there anything that you’d like to comment about our presentation? Perhaps, things we should add in to improve and to pinpoint the details in our project all the more? Any feedback? Please let us know! :)

    Thank you!

Sincerely,
Emily & Maya
the Firehawk Gazette

Genious Hour

Hello, this is how far we are at our slideshow right now. Not finished yet so please give us some feedback.

The Truth about Chemotherapy

 

What is our project about?

Our project is about understanding chemotherapy, and figuring out how it works. As well as the process, how it benefits cancer, the side effects, what is cancer. We are hoping that our project will inform people about chemotherapy and how it works.

 

Why did it appeal to us?

This topic appealed to us because it fit with our criteria well. We had some trouble finding a topic that we both liked and that we meet the criteria. This topic was also interesting and a lot of people in our class were wondering about the same topic. However nobody else chose this topic.

 

Where are we right now?

Right now we are working on the PowerPoint that will explain chemotherapy. We are also about a couple days away for presenting to the class. But first we need to do peer feedback, and practice presenting it.

 

Feedback?

*Do you think our questions are explaining the topic well?

*Do you think our information is related to the topic/headings?

*Is presenting our information on a PowerPoint a good way to share our project?

*Is our information well organized, is it easy to understand?

Genius Hour Progress

Here is our progress so far on our Genius Hour projects. If possible could you please give feedback.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vdoBaN0zRIoUYdnHjUyvxvOgGzR9j1z1Q68hX8fYIA8/edit