I play with them so I want to make sure these chemicals are safe you make your own Assam. Our elective sticker estudio enhances student level of engagement and motivation to learn in an intrinsic way rather than an extrinsic way. I want to be able to do it because I've never made hydrochloric acid. We are constantly refining our approach to maximize student learning and one of the ways we can do. That is to maximizing their ability to choose banker. Instudio is that program that students in fifth through eighth grade are able to select as an elective it starts with what are you interested in. I don't fit how their feet and making for a practice play marbles out. I'm drawing graphic novel characters. I'm running on really girly. Like focus of the fingering. Studio is kids as lifelong learner. When they lead here are they able to teach themselves what they want to learn. The main studio is kind of class where you get to choose whatever project you want to do is learning what you want to learn and at your own pace they come up with a project idea they look at a template that has a series of questions they have to answer that help them plan what they want to do. What's the overall challenge. What do they expect to learn. How will they evaluate the success of their project. Who or what can they go to when they get stuck putting pictures on video manager should manage themselves through that process. The teacher facilitates it through artful questioning. Who's going to help you. If you get stuff that puts the onus back on them to figure it out themselves. Are you having issues realtor discipline so you're making your own jumper. Sometimes they need help to get there you might email take it a step further so. I point them to a resource another student another teacher a book the website. This is your third week where you are putting reflections onto the journal. I also have their weekly journals where I can see what they plan to get done. And their reflections on what they're getting hundred our paper and chemical and plan yes.

A reflection is telling what was not going according to plan and also if you made a mistake you try to come up with a way. Redo it more creatively. So in my project. I'm learning Turkish every other week. We get together inferior critique groups one person presents the project for about three minutes amazed contagious. Turkish phrases and I'm making one two adjectives right now two other people give critique when you start learning more and more word you have to keep going back to the beginning ones even though you're learning hardship you also remember like the India. We also sometimes help each other like it. Someone needs help filming something. A few drops of it is part of the project making them easy for them but there may be a second part. That's not as easy and that's where. I may see their learning going on this was DIY tie-dye color milk magic tree the student doing the DIY mostly following recipe when he does that but the sharing of that project is the growth area for him. He was borrowing another student to figure out how to get his voiceovers into this. He was borrowing the same student later to figure out how to cut parts of the video out that he didn't need he's got to work on the YouTube channel and so he's learning about video making communicating and then how to get that shared to a wider audience. Hopefully we'll be able to get some kind of social media to sort of broadcast and say. Hey new video uploaded today. I love connecting with people. It's a really great day all sudden you've opened the ceiling to what kids think they're able to do and they surprise us sometimes at school. I want them to be that self-directed learner but that would be how you're going to share so they can do whatever it is that they're interested in and create what they want to create you you.