End of Year Genius Hour

For the week of May 15th, the staff here at the elementary school experimented with setting up some personalized learning work in their classrooms. Since I only have a class two or three times a week, I thought I would give the students in STEM a little longer time to work.

There were six or seven days (depending on the rotation) of STEM class left, and I wanted the students to try different things, to learn something new, or explore something that we didn't spend a lot of time on previously.

I had a "Big Giant List of Options" on the white board in our room for the students to "Choose their Own Adventure," and am I glad to report that there were some great creations, learning, and fun had in the last few weeks of class. (This list had another 2 columns by the time the first two days were done!)


Lots of students picked the "Build with Cardboard" option; so much so, that I ran out of old projects!
Here's a sample of some of the activity that happened in our room over the last few weeks.