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Evaluating the Mars Project at AAI
Our student teams made their final summative project presentations on April 28, 2017 to teacher judges during the day and to the public in the evening. I wrote about these presentations in my last post. In this post, I want … Continue reading
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Tagged american academy of innovation, buck institute of education, clark planetarium, formative assessment, gold standard pbl, mars education, mars exploration, project based learning, student centered, student projects, student voice and choice, summative assessment
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Launching the Mars Project
With our first semester seminars done in the middle of January 2017, the students were as ready as they could be to start our school-wide Mars Exploration project at American Academy of Innovation. Whether or not the teachers were ready … Continue reading
Traveling to Mars
I taught STEAM (physical sciences, technology, engineering, digital and traditional arts, and mathematics) classes at American Academy of Innovation in South Jordan, Utah during the 2016-17 school year (which was the first year of operation). The charter and mission of … Continue reading
Arrakeen Colony, Mars
During our fall 2016 semester at American Academy of Innovation, we selected Mars Exploration as the theme of our first school-wide project. To prepare my classes and get students excited, I involved them in creating several projects related to … Continue reading
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Tagged american academy of innovation, arrakeen, engineering through art, junk sculpture, living on mars, mars colony, mars exploration, materials science education, modeling in science, names for mars, project based learning, steam education, steam projects, stem education, visualizing the future
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