STUDENT EXHIBITIONS
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
A Celebration of Learning Event
As part of my work as Inquiry Support teacher, I helped to design and instruct curriculum that was question driven, project based, and included a summative assessment that could be presented to an authentic audience. Our work culminated in a special celebration of learning around the units of inquiry: “What Makes Me, Me?” and “How Does the Environment Shape Culture?” Students prepared several museum “exhibits” for the public to enjoy including:
interactive artworks
a cave of petroglyphs and first nations artifacts
a life size igloo.
exciting video presentations comparing aspects of first nations culture across Canada.
The students were thrilled to share their projects with people from across the community and with students from our neighboring high school.
EMPTY BOWLS
Art and Positive Social Change
Empty bowls: a school wide initiative that I co-chaired in 2016 to raise funds and awareness for global hunger using art as a way to affect positive, social change. Our work included supporting the school in learning about world hunger and facilitating community action by raising funds to donate to the UN World Food Program. Students in every grade created informational booths with activities to teach about hunger from a science, math, and language arts perspective and every student created a ceramic bowl as part of an art installation in an off-campus gallery. Students canvassed local restaurants for the donations of soup that was served at the event-- a reminder of the need for universal access to simple nutrition. The empty bowls were auctioned to raise funds.
GENIUS HOUR AND THE INVENTION CONVENTION
Creating Student Centered, Competency Based Assessments
The “Innovators Convention”: a summative sharing of Inquiry/Genius Hour project work for Grade 5/6 students that was part of my work to organize a framework for authentic, competency based assessments. Classes, parents, and guests visited our displays throughout the afternoon as kids shared their passion projects and creative inventions around sustainable energy.
