Mrs. Lasher’s incredible 5th grade GT students are currently hosting a “pop-up” museum at their school. Inspired by San Antonio’s new hands-on children’s museum, the DoSeum, the students designed their very own interactive exhibits, and invited select guests to visit. Here is the invitation they designed. The L.E.A.D. (Learn, Explore, And Discover) DoSeum consists of three rooms: … Read more
Critical Squares: Games of Critical Thinking and Understanding, is a book written by Shari Tishman and Albert Andrade for Harvard’s Project Zero. One of the games I like to use in my classroom is “Whatzit Tic-Tac-Toe.” We generally play it to think deeper about novels that we have read, but I decided to try it as … Read more
With my students, brainstorming generally begins with zombies. So, even though our theme for the district Robotics Showcase was, “Trash Trek,” practically the first idea that was thrown out was zombies. Now, one of the main rules of brainstorming is not to judge, but I immediately broke that rule. “Umm, what do zombies have to do … Read more
My 5th graders are polishing up their Genius Hour presentations, and one of the students was trying to incorporate a poll into his presentation. He was just going to switch windows in the browser during his presentation, but I was sure there must be a way to actually embed one into Slides. We did some … Read more
We were a week late finishing our 2nd grade GT Mother’s Day project due to a few scheduling conflicts. However, we did get done with our “She Wears Many Hats” booklets, and I wanted to share some of the completed pages by my students. We worked hard on brainstorming different types of hats and then … Read more
Monday’s post was about a recent field trip my 3rd-5th graders took to Mitchell Lake Audubon Center that was augmented by adding some drone education while we were out there. Before we went on the trip, I did lengthy discussions with my students, particularly my 5th graders, about drones. We have been talking about freedom … Read more