Where Passions Come to Life!
What is 20% Time?
To help inspire innovation and creativity, Google offers employees 20% of their time to work on a project of their choosing. Classrooms that offer the same to students can meet learning goals while creating powerful experiences that lead to increased motivation, creativity, and divergent critical thinking. Explore some of our classrooms' 20% Time journeys on this page.
Project Based Learning by nature teaches perseverance, independence and skills you simply can't obtain from traditional methods of instruction. Adding #20Time (also called Passion Project or Genius Hour) programs brings PBL to a whole new level. Watching students complete a #20Time project is extremely inspirational. How can students be taught to shape their environment? Can we foster students to find their own voice and get involved in causes they are passionate about? Can we teach them to step out of their comfort zone to share their work on social media and in the news? Can we help be sure that we, as educators, help students recognize and control their digital footprint in a way that is beneficial to their future self?
Successful #20Time ProjectsThe Green Bay Hospital Supply Fundraiser
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Introducing Students to 20% Time
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What is this project anyway?What motivates you? I mean REALLY motivates you? Learning doesn't start or end with schooling. In the ultimate project to teach independence and ownership of your learning, we are participating in 20% Time. It's time to completely submerge yourself in the learning process. This project will test your Googliness & creativity like never before. Choose what you want to learn or accomplish. Use 20% time to develop something new, or if you see something broken, use the time to fix it! Follow your interest with passion and research how to reach your goal. Think of it as the RIGHT TO EXPERIMENT or as FOCUSED FREE TIME to follow a passion. Be creative & use your imagination like never before. Throw yourself into a project wholeheartedly. Go around, knock down or destroy any hurdles that come your way and learn more about yourself in the process. For one hour a week, you will pursue a passion-driven project. In the process, you will help further develop skills in critical thinking, time management, searching, researching, inquiry & more! Let's create a classroom full of students inspiring each other. You are Geniuses! The world EXPECTS your amazing contributions.
Students who participate in 20% Time Projects are participating in inquiry based passion projects that support experiential learning and require intrinsic motivation. This kind of user-generated education allows for maximum engagement and learning. Requirements:
General Plan of Action: Week 1: Introduction to the 20% Time Project. Inspirational Ideas! Website intro Idea Video & RESEARCH Week 2: Research, Website & Blog Creation/Proposal Submissions (required) Week 3: CHANGE THE WORLD Guest Speaker/Final Proposal Submissions Week 4: Funding Ideas & Opportunities/Research Tips Week 5-7: Project Action Week 8: Project Action/Prepare for Project Checkup Week 9: Project Checkups Week 10-14: Project Action Week 15-16: Presentation Creation Week 17-18: Global & Ted Talk Presentations REPEAT for SEMESTER 2 |
Watch how Google's 20 Percent Time Fosters InnovationResources
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Still Struggling to Find Your Inner Passion? Be Inspired With These Ideas:
Encourage Growth Mindset in the School (posters, etc.)
Fix a Computer Lab up (Ele, MS, HS) Run an Elementary EdCamp Run a MS EdCamp Help Our School Win the Follett Challenge Start & Foster a Movement! Build & Sustain an Awareness Campaign! Get Our School Involved in the Project Global Inform Create an app! Make an iBook! Publish a Paper Book! Learn Japanese! Or Chinese! Or Sign Language! Or Any Language! Create an SAT Prep Site/Question App/Etc. for our School! Learn to Code with Code Academy. com/Code.org/Scratch or Processing Learn Photography Redo the School Flowerbeds! Improve an Area in the School or Community! Teach iPads & the Internet to an Assisted Living Community! Get Passionate About Improving the Pep Band, Marching Band, or Any Other Club that Needs More Help! Help the Jake Menghini Museum Document the Veterans! Create a Campaign to Send Care Packages Overseas! Build a Robot that Does Something! Create Artwork for Someplace that Needs It (Schools, Hospitals, VAs, Parks)! Schedule, Plan & Hold a Concert to Support a Cause! Create Our Own TedX Talks Program & Assembly for Our School! Create an Online Presence (Website/Facebook & Google Calendar) for a Club or Sport! Create a Website/Online Presence for a Good Cause (Dangers of Smoking/Preventing Cancer/Etc.) Create an Online Presence for a Local Business! Start a Business! Digitize All the Alumni in an Online Searchable Format! Win the School a New Health & Fitness Club Through THIS Grant! Fix the 'Class Of' Collages into Something More Modern/Less Damaged (Canvas Wraps, etc.) Invent Something! Start a New Program to Donate Toys, Shoes or Clothes to the School or Children That Need Them! |
Run a Makers' Madness Tourney at our school
Compete in the NMU Business Venture Competition Fix Something Broken! Compose a Piece of Music with Garage Band! Create a New Sharing Site of Information for People to Connect! Create & Foster a Program to Improve our School Spirit! Help us Win the Battle of the Fans! Create a Program Where You Play Your Music for Crowds (lunch room/coffee shop/assisted living/veterans/local Lion's clubs/etc.)! Learn How to Run a 10 K! Organize a Mystery Skype for a MS or Elementary Class Implement a Bully-Free Program! Implement a Buddy Lunch Sitting System! Rebuild a Car Engine! Rebuild a Computer! Teach the Entire School Something to Improve their Life (i.e. Calendar, Reminder App, Homework App, etc.)! Create an Entire Sportsmanship Program/Rewards Program (the MHSAA supports a LOT of stuff for this)! Make a Place the Teachers Go (the louge/faculty bathroooms/etc.) a More Inspirational Place! Set a Goal to Apply for & Win a Variety of Grants for the School! Research Something You Want to Learn About & Present Your Learning for Others! Participate in a Study! Convert Teacher Tests to a School Wide Test Bank! Improve the 'Gender Gap'! Clone Something with Chemistry! Produce Your Own Short Film & Enter a Film Festival! Visit THIS Site to See Project Examples from Other Students! Teacher Requested Projects: Weebly Page/Online Ordering for School Store Elementary/HS (apparel pictures online/pt values/money/forms needed) Create a Form/Spreadsheet to tabulate Econo Slips Hang the Forgotten Artwork in the Building (Mrs. Danielson's National Endowment for the Humanities Project) Complete the State Farm School Challenge grant Digitize the School Announcement System Create a MHSAA Live Feed for Our Athletic Events Create a Live Broadcast Morning Announcement Show Create Our Own TV Channel Start a CHANGE at https://www.change.org/ |