Personal Interest Project for Genius Hour

Do you use Personal Interest Projects, Passion Projects or Genius Hour in your classroom?

PIP’s are a great way to extend learners who are gifted or talented, or introduce young learners to research projects. Students are able to choose their own topic to research and present in any format that they choose. This is also a great way to allow students to work at their own pace and to be accountable for their learning.

Included in this file;
o Instructions on how to implement a PIP in your classroom
o Mindmap templates
o Topic list
o Templates for recording questions, including templates for diagrams/pictures
o Templates for recording information already known and proving that the information is correct.
o Template for recording additional information.
o Templates for a Presentation plan, including a template with a diagram
o PIP checklist
o PIP Register to record what the students have achieved in each session
o Reflection sheet for the student
o Marking Rubric for the teacher

If you have any questions about this file please leave a question in the Q&A section.