Trouble Shooting Finding Out Quiz

This activity was planned as a way to launch into the finding out process. With the Exhibition being such a technology heavy project, we wanted to make sure that students were not only building upon their research skills, but also some of their management skills. The activity was designed to be interactive, rather than directive. 

Parent  eXperience!
We are very fortunate to have a great group of parents working with us this year, and having them come in to help out during exhibition is incredibly helpful for both the students and the teachers.  It's so wonderful for them to be a part of the process, and for them to truly understand the inquiry cycle. We had such a great turnout this year and I cannot wait for them to come back in in a few weeks!

Mentors!!!
We tried something new last year with mentors, and it didn't quite work out so well, so this year, we went back to the old way, which meant 'grouping' students and assigning them to a mentor who they would meet with once a week. We had so many teachers volunteer this year to help out that we were really able to accomplish putting kids into logical and purposeful groupings, which is really hard to do when you have each kid working most independently during the exhibition. Some of our mentors are working with groups of 3 or 4 kids (deforestation, pollution, endangered animals etc...), while others only have 1 or 2 students, with perhaps much more unique and issues (artificial intelligence, urban beautification, bee extinction etc...). 

Next week is going to be really exciting. We are going to be launching into the next phases of the inquiry cycle-- sorting out and going further. We have students going on field trips, doing interviews, and we hope to start working on literacy, math and design elements! It's going to be busy!