One of the other projects that we were assigned and had some opportunity to work learn more about was "Genius Hour". While I have heard of Genius Hour or 20% time, I never really had the opportunity to explore. Ironically, that is exactly the idea of Genius Hour. To allow students the opportunity to just explore/learn about what they want to. While there shouldn't be constraints on what the student explores, I find it difficult that teachers would just give up time, I know I would. However, I did spend my "hour" doing something that I probably wouldn't have done and realized that it wouldn't be a bad thing to do to break-up the monotony the semester. Below is my "genius hour" work
Reflection:
This was a timely project injunction with a family vacation. My daughter’s (5yo) favorite animal when we go to any zoo is the Okapi. I think it stems from a character on the Disney Cartoon “The Lion Guard”. Anyway, she loves them and is fascinated with them. While on a Disney Vacation and spending the day at the Animal Kingdom, we saw Okapi while on the Safari ride. She then found an Okapi stuffed animal. She didn’t let go all day and during the time we got talking with an employee about sponsoring/adopting an Okapi. My daughter was beyond excited about this potential. I would never would have thought about doing something like this, but in the conversation with the girl from Animal Kingdom, I sat down and decided to see what I could find. I ended up finding more information about Okapi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and why the Okapi are important to the people of the DRC.
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