Last Thursday we had our next Personal Inquiry time. Once again we had a big variety of creations presented.
We had lots of models constructed, 3D structures made with foam blocks, some students have started app smashing with to create projects that interest them.
Here’s the photos from this week’s session.
Today we had our fourth Personal Learning time session. I’m sure our creations are becoming more imaginative, more detailed and look fantastic! It’s amazing to see what the students are creating in our class. We have a class of highly creative students.
We recorded today’s session using Jelly Cam – this takes 1 photo every 60 seconds and creates a movie. It’s a great record of our session. Lots of our class were working in 2 learning spaces today – our classroom and the Art room – lots of modelling and painting.
Here’s our movie.
Every Friday from 12noon ’til 3pm our class is having Personal Inquiry Time. We do lots of inquiry learning about different topics (Maths & Inquiry topics) during the week but this is a special time for each student to pursue something they’re really
After our discussions the students realised this was a chance to be as creative as possible and choose to create an object of any kind. We have had long class discussions and planning sessions so that each student is clear that they have 3 hours to create something that interests them personally.
Our whiteboard was covered in plans and ideas for the class to share and show what they would be creating.
The following photos show most of the items that were created last Friday.
The students created:
After our 3 hour session we did a gallery walk to see what people in our class had created.
We loved looking at all of the details of each creation.
We reflected that we need to stay focussed for the entire 3 hour session, challenge ourselves, make sure our creation is detailed – we have plenty of time, teamwork is a great help, we need to have all materials ready to go, get help if you need to and how wonderful it feels to be really empowered by making decisions about your own learning.
What are you planning for your next ‘creating’ session?
Can you make any suggestions for our students – items to inspire them / challenges for them?