The Discovery heroes kicked off the week with lots of new challenges!
First up was the Detective Science quest. They will be investigating a crime scene for the next two weeks and investigating various suspects. They found a table with moldy bread, cheese, a strange powder, missing files, fingerprints and shoe prints. Who done it!?
The heroes also have other challenges to choose from during certain times of the day when any “meaningful work” is an option. The Coding & Robotics quest was so engaging, that the heroes now have the option of continuing and completing the Code.org course to complete their “Coding Level 2” badge. Another “meaningful work” option is the “Be Sal Khan” badge which entails creating a video to help explain a challenging math concept using video editing software.
This week’s communications challenge was “drawing a line in the sand,” The learners created scripts for how to set boundaries with fellow heroes and capped off the week with an all-school role-play exercise at the stage in Fellowship Hall where they acted out various scenarios like, “the loud talker,” the “slow-walker,” and the “distractor.” It was lots of fun, lots of laughs, and lots of experiential learning about real like scenarios.
Finally, the heroes are engaging in Civilization Research challenges this session. They are teaming up and deep-diving into history, politics, economics and haiku, and presenting their findings at the end. The children do their research in self-organized learning environments (SOLEs) based on the research and “hole in the wall” experiments of Sugatra Mitra. SOLEs are collaborative and super-power learning.
