Every year we do a major project related to our theme. This year's theme is ArKIDtecture. Students have the choice of designing a building or doing a research project on a famous architect or building. Each project is unique; students and teacher work together to decide what needs to be included in the project as well as what the final products will be. This week was about exploring potential topics and brainstorming ideas. Below are a few photos of what the Wednesday morning class was working on (link):
More updates on the projects all of the students are working on will follow in the weeks to come!
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Here are a few of the things that we did... This Week In Gifted!
Two Truths and a Lie
After a month off from classes we were back at it this week. We started out by playing 'Two Truths and a Lie'. Each person says three statements about what they did in the past month. Two of the statements are true, but one is not. Everyone else tries to guess which one is the lie so your goal is to try and trick people into picking the wrong one! As the saying goes "You can fool all the
people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you
cannot fool all the people all the time."
Designing Buildings to Survive Earthquakes
We watched this video which described some of the ways that buildings can be designed to resist earthquakes. We also watched part of this video which demonstrated a base isolation system using a model and then showed the real thing in action.
The Tuned Mass Damper in Taipei 101. See source of photo here.
Photo Editing
Students learned how to combine two images in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Students are already adept at removing the backgrounds from photos. This week they modified a photo of themselves so that they were just left with a floating head. The next step is to add the head to stickman body and then make their stickman visit some of their favorite buildings and structures. I look forward to sharing their creations here in the upcoming weeks!
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