Project Human - more photos

As I was looking through my pictures from our Project Human activity I realized there are way more pics that needed to be shared...

Team Building: Project Human

As we begin a new year together it's very important that we are all comfortable working together to accomplish both academic and social tasks. To kick off the year, the 8th grade AVID students participated in ProjectHuman. Upon entering theAVID classroom each student was instructed to select one piece of recycling (bottles,cartons, boxes, etc.). Studentswere then split into random groups and given a few more materials - a coffee straw, popsicle stick, sheet of card stock and a roll of masking tape. Each group was give 20 minutes to create a "human" using only the materials they had.

At end of the building time, groups were asked to"debrief" their experience. Discussion questions included:

• Now that you know the project, would you have changed what item you picked? Why?
• What challenges or frustrations did you have during the process?
• Did your end result match your original vision? Why or why not?
• How can we relate this experience to our life together in AVID?

New Year... New Group... New Adventures

The 2011-2012 school year in into it's second week and things are beginning to normalize. The newest group of 8th grade AVID students has their AVID Binders and are ready to go. I look forward to the adventures we will have as a class this coming year.

One big change for our campus this year is that ALL students, in ALL grades are required to maintain an "AVID-like" binder. This came as a request from our teachers, almost all of which attended the AVID Summer Institute this summer. All classes and teachers will also be using the Cornell Note format this year. Because of these two things, the AVID strategies, and hopefully successes, will be spreading across our school.