Awakening Passions

Podcast # 2 is about 2B's experience with puppeteering. You will hear a conversation with Kennedi, Gurtej, Arveer and Shiya and their reflections about Exploration # 8 – Puppeteering.

Awakening Passions now has a podcast! Podcast # 1 is about 2B’s experience with coding. You will hear a conversation with Parker, Krisha, Eshana and Kaelan and their reflections about Exploration # 7 – Coding.

Today we explored robotics and students in 2B were eager to start working with robots! With the STEM movement in education, robotics is one avenue to generate student interest.  There are many books, articles and blogs that speak to the importance to STEM in education and the advantages of learning about robotics in the early years. Here […]

Design Thinking again??? YES! Last time, the focused was on building empathy and applying that to creating multiple prototypes using various materials.  The focus of today’s design challenge was collaborative problem solving using creativity. Today, we tackled the famous Spaghetti Marshmallow Tower Challenge.  There are various versions of this challenge out there; this is what ours […]

2B Exploration # 1 – Bhangra Students in 2B were buzzing with excitement today as we explored Bhangra. Bhangra is a folk dance that originates from a region in northern India called Punjab. We were visited by 3 members of Kauran Di Taur, Kajill Aujla, Simeet Gill, and Kiran Gill. Kauran Di Taur (KDT) is […]