Celebrate Learning!
INDEPENDENT
STUDY FAIR
March 21,
2002
Every year, we choose a subject we REALLY like, and study
it for two whole months. Every week, we do research, make a project,
and give a presentation based on one of the six levels of Blooms
Taxonomy: KNOWLEDGE, COMPREHENSION, APPLICATION, ANALYSIS,
SYNTHESIS, and EVALUATION. We are graded on research, neatness, creativity,
oral presentation and effort. After our six projects are done, we take
them all into the cafeteria and design creative displays to show them off.
Then, our families and all the other kids in the school come to see how
hard we worked. We can win many awards for our projects, including Creative
Display Awards, Personal Best Awards, High Average Awards, and the coveted
BLOOMIE AWARD. You get a "Bloomie" when you get 100% on one or more
of your projects.
The Independent Study Fair doesn't just teach us about
our topics, it teaches us to use many different types of research materials,
collect and analyze data, speak in front of an audience, and evaluate our
own and our peers' work. That's a lot of learning crammed into two
months!
We learned a lot about thinking, like:
STRETCH YOUR COMFORT ZONE!
IF YOU GET INTO A JAM, GET YOURSELF OUT!
And the most important rule of all...
To see some pictures of our Fair,
click here!