For the last six weeks of our Genius Hour Project, we plan to complete the illustrations for our book and then put our book together. Once our book is complete, we plan to go to Woodland and read our book to the kids. We plan on bringing short surveys to see how the kids responded to our story. We can use the feedback from the kids to show how our Project impacted others.
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In the article "'Hidden Figures' Inspire Connecticut Girls", it talks about how 80 High School girls were inspired by the film. After watching the film the girls felt inspired and motivated to not be afraid to take a chance and try to move forward in any of the STEM fields. Many of these girls didn't know that women were behind the first man on the moon. After finding this out the girls were surprised and also a little proud.
After the film, the girls listened to a panel of STEM role models. This panel encouraged curiosity, analytical thinking and perseverance to overcome the obstacles that being a woman comes with. In today's society, women still face obstacles. Women of color have it worse. With how evolved everything has become, you would think that our views of each other would evolve also. If we can encourage girls, and children of color, that they can accomplish just as much as those who have it easy, then the world can become so much better. Everything will become so much better. Cloud's purpose was to compare being born a genius, or becoming one. Many believe that you can only be born a genius, others believe that you have to work for it. Cloud says "Still, genius can be very hard to discern, and not just among the young." So Cloud is still uncertain of his own view of what genius is. We as students can not shy away from learning. If we apply ourselves and work hard, we can still accomplish so much, and learn much more.I think that the limitation on information on the slides made what he was saying seem more important. His presentation was all-around great. The real example of his 3-D printer captured my attention. When we present our children's book, we'll have a copy of the book.Most people think that people with high IQ’s are the biggest geniuses, but this is false. The woman with the highest IQ isn’t the leading researcher for the cure to cancer or the top scientist at NASA. She’s a question-and-answer columnist. Some of the strategies are “How can I rethink the way I see it?”, “How many different ways can I look at it?” and “How many different ways can I solve it?” When we’re faced with a problem while trying to complete our Genius Hour Project, we can use some of these strategies to find a way to solve it.The Genius Hour project teaches students more than any test or quiz could. It puts the teaching in the hands of the students. During the process of researching, creating and publicizing their projects, students can learn a lot of lifelong skills. While promoting self-teaching, Genius Hour also promotes the idea of learning from failure. The emphasis of the project is to teach that failure is okay and that you do better and make alterations. When a student fails a test, that's it. There's nothing they can do about it. When a Genius Hour project fails the student can make changes and try again.
As a group, we plan to write a children’s book by January 10th. Once we finish the book we plan on contacting Woodland elementary and setting a date to read our book to the kids and have our book placed in the Woodland library. The first two months we’ll use to write the book, the last month and a half we’ll use to illustrate and put our book together.
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