Genius Hour Directions

Thanks to Paul Solarz for sharing his checklist and resources for Genius Hour projects.

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PLANNING AND TOPIC SELECTION

1. Students create Essential Questions & get them approved by the teacher. Place all your essential quesations in this Padlet.

2. Submit Essential Questions on our Google Form. They are now displayed on this Google Spreadsheet.

3. Fill out K-W-H columns in K-W-H-L-A-Q Chart at right: 

4. Have students create a "Plan" of the steps they need to complete in order to finish their project successfully.

RESEARCH

5. Start researching, building, creating, etc.

6. Fill out L-A-Q columns in K-W-H-L-A-Q Chart. 

PRESENTATION

7. Create a video showing your final product.

8. Share your video with Mr. McCulloch so he can upload to Youtube.

REFLECTION

9. Create a blog entry on our Seesaw learning blog.

10. View other student's blogs and leave feedback on their projects

11. Start new round.

Some inspiration for your next project...

Genius Hour Sample

Photo Credit:

http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/07/21/upgrade-your-kwl-chart-to-the-21st-century/