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Last year at the start of COVID I searched for a way to make lessons exciting about soil. I created small videos, conducting experiments, and asked students to comment on their observations. I tried to make the experience as real as possible. I want to continue to bring the world to my students and to encourage them to connect to nature, to see past their mask, and journey on field trips past the screen on their own. I am hoping to inspire the students to explore nature by bringing them as close as I can to it now. Students also participate in Passion Projects and could use the GoPro to record and share their passions with their classmates. A Passion Project is not a "have to" or requirement. Passion Projects are student created and guided. Not every activity we do in class every child will be excited about. Passion Projects are completely STUDENT CHOICE. Students get to choose what they want to learn about. When students have a chance to choose they become invested in their education and begin to love learning. To begin pick a subject that is interesting to them art, engineering, dogs, flowers… anything that makes their eyes sparkle when they talk about it. After the subject is chosen students can think of a few questions and search the internet or read to find out more. Then they decide what to do with that information. Are they done? Do they want to learn more? Do they want to create a project? Are they going to share and how? Projects are done outside of school. Some may be quick, some may take a long time. This is a perfect year for Passion Projects given their asynchronous Wednesdays and afternoon studies at home.

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Last year at the start of COVID I searched for a way to make lessons exciting about soil. I created small videos, conducting experiments, and asked students to comment on their observations. I tried to make the experience as real as possible. I want to continue to bring the world to my students and to encourage them to connect to nature, to see past their mask, and journey on field trips past the screen on their own. I am hoping to inspire the students to explore nature by bringing them as close as I can to it now. Students also participate in Passion Projects and could use the GoPro to record and share their passions with their classmates. A Passion Project is not a "have to" or requirement. Passion Projects are student created and guided. Not every activity we do in class every child will be excited about. Passion Projects are completely STUDENT CHOICE. Students get to choose what they want to learn about. When students have a chance to choose they become invested in their education and begin to love learning. To begin pick a subject that is interesting to them art, engineering, dogs, flowers… anything that makes their eyes sparkle when they talk about it. After the subject is chosen students can think of a few questions and search the internet or read to find out more. Then they decide what to do with that information. Are they done? Do they want to learn more? Do they want to create a project? Are they going to share and how? Projects are done outside of school. Some may be quick, some may take a long time. This is a perfect year for Passion Projects given their asynchronous Wednesdays and afternoon studies at home.

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