For my Genius Hour Project, I decided on looking for some lost treasures. I've always loved mysteries (especially the murder-mystery kind), and I love reading books! I have a few websites from which I get free books (in epub version, because I like to store them in my iPad mini and read them that way). One of the free books that I got was romantic suspense, which have become one of my top favourite genres, about an archaeologist and a hot security guard, finding a mythical, lost treasure. I've always had an interest in mythical stories, and lost treasures, but I was never crazy about them. This book, and the related books in the series, intrigued me and made me want to find a lost treasure or two myself (with the help of a hot guy, of course!). So here I am, using my Genius Hour project to actually delve into this newfound interest of mine.
I think these sort of projects may actually be very educative and fun for all students to do.I might have been skeptical about the whole thing at the beginning, but I am finding this project rather interesting and a good way to engage students and initiate student-based learning.
In fact, I might actually use my learned knowledge about blogs and websites, and have the students post their progress on unit-long activities on them. It might also be fun to have them start their own scientific website!
Of course, this might be hard to implement in a school system where a lot of teachers, principals, and parents still value traditional way of teaching and learning. From experience, I can say that such innovative ideas may not be welcomed with all parents, as they may be skeptical of how such projects would help their children learn effectively. Still, if I can explain to the parents all the great ways that such ideas would help many different students, then it would be worth a shot to give it a try.
Now to get everyone ready and in the mood for my upcoming posts, here is a video of 10 lost treasures. If you care to search, you can find many more!
