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Engineering: Girl Day "Bring It Out" Campaign Teaser by DiscoverE

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Inclusion of All Disciplines (KIS's STEM Program 2015-2016)

Great Hook on the Topic of Friendship ("Android: Friends Furever")

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"Service-Learning: Real-Life Applications for Learning" by Edutopia

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"With a Friend" by Vivian Gouled (Art by KIS's Students)

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Minecraft in Education: 5th Grade Volume Project (PBL)

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In this project students took on the role of architects from an architecture firm. Their objective was to design a home for Mr. Python and his family. Mr. Python provided a few specifications for the design: Home must have a footprint of 150 to 250 square meters (The footprint is the area of the home site, defined by the perimeter of the building plan.) At least 3 bedrooms (One master bedroom, one for the daughter and one for the son) Wants lot of natural sunlight coming into the home Multi-story home (home that has multiple of floors) Home must be a composite rectangular prism, made up of at least three or more of these rectangular prisms that are all different sizes (Composite rectangular prism: composed of two or more non-overlapping right rectangular prisms) Would like to know the volume of each of the non-overlapping rectangular prisms and also the total volume of the home Here is the video of Mr. Python asking students to design a home for his ...

Possible Example of a Passion Project: "The Ocean Cleanup"

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