Families~
I am so excited about our information we've collected for our "Genius Hours." Basically, we've set aside time the last few weeks to research ANY topic that interests each individual student (we have quite the assortment from Area 51 to the Nervous System to the Berlin Wall). Your child's job is to become an "expert" in the topic they chose. Starting immediately over Spring Break, the students will start presenting their ideas in ANY STYLE THEY CHOOSE. Their "grade" is based around the work they put in and the knowledge the rest of the class gains based off the presentation. It is not at all about a "project" or a materialistic "thing" so please don't think you need to go nuts building a human robot to offer h'orderves during their presentation. However, sticking with the idea of presenting information in a way that will help the other students retain the topic, it may be helpful for them to have some kind of visual (TOTALLY up to the student). I do want it to be the student's work, so please try to refrain from helping as much as possible...it's about them exploring and creating what THEY think works best. We will work on these (whether electronically or by hand) over the next few days before break, and the students will be expected to finish over break. They won't be allowed to read whole sentences off of anything during their presentations, so they will have to rely on their visual and KNOW the information well. If there's any other questions, please check with your student or me, but my answer is pretty much going to be, "whatever the student wants to do" as that's the idea behind the Genius Hour. Thanks and have a great Spring Break!
