Adventurers: Session 2 “Big Rocks” and Challenges
Quest
This session’s Quest covered the topic of electricity but more importantly that the path to discovery, invention, and innovation is often paved with challenges, failures, and a fair amount of ambiguity.
The Quest offered 13 Challenges covering topics from basic circuitry, conductivity, voltage, and more. The Eagles will be sharing the challenges that were successful (or at least somewhat so) and that they were able to write a patent for.
BIG IDEAS (feel free to dig into these at Exhibition!)
Civilization
At Exhibition, be sure to check out the “Big Ideas” poster the Eagles created during Civ for the events, people, and places covered this session.
General Civ Questions for the Eagles’ presentations:
Writing
The Eagles’ Challenge was to write a sci-fi short story utilizing the following elements:
Additionally, Eagles worked on the 6+ 1Trait of IDEAS this session. While this trait was their focus, they should also be including conventions, sentence fluency, organization, voice, word choice, and presentation.
Art
Eagles continue to create new WOW (Wonderful Original Work) pieces each session. All Eagle projects are initiated, designed, and created by the Eagles. They research the skills and techniques they need to complete their designs using books and materials in the studio or the computer.
Ask they following about their artwork:
This session’s Quest covered the topic of electricity but more importantly that the path to discovery, invention, and innovation is often paved with challenges, failures, and a fair amount of ambiguity.
The Quest offered 13 Challenges covering topics from basic circuitry, conductivity, voltage, and more. The Eagles will be sharing the challenges that were successful (or at least somewhat so) and that they were able to write a patent for.
BIG IDEAS (feel free to dig into these at Exhibition!)
- Becoming like Edison and persevering through repeated failures.
- Learning to tolerate and work through ambiguity in big assignments and in life.
- Innovation: What is it? How do we become innovators?
Civilization
At Exhibition, be sure to check out the “Big Ideas” poster the Eagles created during Civ for the events, people, and places covered this session.
General Civ Questions for the Eagles’ presentations:
- What was interesting to you about this person, place, or event?
- What do you think the lasting effects of { XXX event } are?
- If you could travel back in time and change something about this event, what would you change?
Writing
The Eagles’ Challenge was to write a sci-fi short story utilizing the following elements:
- Characters
- Setting
- Science/Technology
- Plot
- Believability
- Dialogue
Additionally, Eagles worked on the 6+ 1Trait of IDEAS this session. While this trait was their focus, they should also be including conventions, sentence fluency, organization, voice, word choice, and presentation.
Art
Eagles continue to create new WOW (Wonderful Original Work) pieces each session. All Eagle projects are initiated, designed, and created by the Eagles. They research the skills and techniques they need to complete their designs using books and materials in the studio or the computer.
Ask they following about their artwork:
- What was your inspiration for this piece or how did you come up with this idea?
- What are you proud of with this piece?
- What would you do differently next time?