Genius hour projects

DAY 1: What is Genius Hour? As we mentioned earlier....Genius Hour is where passions come alive! Students are given the opportunity to pose their own questions, problems, or challenges. With support, students will plan, manage, and reflect upon their learning. Students will switch roles from learner and teacher throughout the process. They will have the freedom to think independently and interdependently, take risks, and learn from their attempts. You and your students will not be able to…

Self-directed learning builds skills and confidence. And it's just plain fun!

In today’s blog post, I’ll be sharing step-by-step directions and strategies for implementing Genius Hour in your elementary classroom. If you teach older grades, I also share more broa…

How will your students share their Genius Hour passion projects? This plan for presenting and sharing Genius Hour projects is the perfect way to wrap up Genius Hour in second, third, and fourth grades.

Last week I was scouring the internet for some more inquiry ideas for my classroom when I came across Genius Hour. One word ... hooked. And inspired. And motivated. (I was never good at limiting my words). ;) Sufficed to say, I KNEW it was going to happen in my classroom. In a nutshell, Genius Hour is something that happens in your classroom for one hour a week. During this time, students research and complete an inquiry project based on their passions - really digging deep into what…

Genius hour is becomig widely used in schools. Here are seven resources and ideas to help you get started or level up genius hour in your school.

Mix-and-match time.

How do I hold my students accountable when I'm not grading them? I see myriad blog posts about pitch proposals, planning sheets, deadlines...

Wouldn't it be marvelous if we could give our students the gift of something beautiful to do with more of their down hours? Something that will put them into that much-lauded state of blissful focus where they don't even notice time passing? This quick post has ideas for using genius hour.

This week at Genius Hour, 3B students showed their understanding of Genius Hour by completing the sentences "Genius Hour is.." and "Genius Hour isn't…" These will be our guidelines for Genius...