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== = = =**Common Understandings of Inventive Thinking:**=
 * == Student ownership of knowledge ==
 * == Challenges student at his/her own level ==
 * == Includes brainstorming and narrowing of ideas (take out those that don’t work) ==
 * == Reflection used at various steps of the way in order to keep learner on track (what works, what doesn’t) ==
 * == Contains an organized path of thinking towards an end goal ==
 * == Original student ideas are used﻿ ==

=What lesson, activity, or project were you most passionate about and what did you learn?= = = "Our environmental research project. I learned about some of the different things wrong with the world and we had to research and figure out on our own how to solve one of these issues."  "I liked the Pecha Kucha because we, ourselves had to go out into the world and find information on our own to finish the project." "The project that was most passionate to me was the environmental science project because we were able to get with other people that were in other classes, we got to make our own decisions on what we wanted for the project and what style of project we wanted to do, and lastly we had to get it done by ourselves." "The project I was most passionate about was the Roman Time Machine because it taught me people skills when contacting experts. I also learned that I may want to work for this environmental agency when I join the workforce." "The Roman time machine, I learned about what actual things go on in a government, which in my case was corruption. I got to use outside resources, such as contacting a real business, POGO, and talk to a real expert about my subject of corruption. I learned what types of corruption there are, and how real people are making efforts to stop it. I enjoyed this project through and through and I am positive that other kids my age and older would also enjoy this type of freedom when it comes to learning and exploring." "I was most passionate about the Roman Time Machine because of the trust you had in us to choose our own experts and style project. This really showed me all the resources that are available and allowed us to branch out." "Most passionate about the Roman Time Machine because it changed how I look at projects by really opening up my surroundings to more insightful sources of information, and not focusing just on knowledge I can find here at school." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 27px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">"The project that I was most interested in and learned the most with was when we worked with the Cincinnati Children’s Museum. I learned that learning can help not just your academics but other people outside of your school." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 27px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">"The Cincinnati Children’s Museum project. I learned all about energy and how it transforms into different types of energy. Also I learned about transactions and chain reactions. I had lots of fun and learned some things too." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">"None in this class. We have a lot in math and science which I strongly feel are the most important subjects in education because I think that you need math to do science and you need science to do math. Those subjects are taught well. However I completely disagree with the way language arts is taught because of several reasons. It’s not that the teachers are bad it’s that we do reading comprehension differently than on a normal basis or in someone's job. Realistic fiction is a hobby not a life-long commitment. We need to do reading comprehension that an average person would do everyday which is the real stuff. For example, like what happens on the news or interviews or sports because these are all real life skills. Also the education is taught wrong, I think because they always give us a ton of homework so it doesn’t help us learn if we are straining our brains from 3 ‘til 10 at night because we’re not focused on learning it, were just wanting to get it done. If we get little homework and its fun and INTERACTIVE we will remember it. It’s been proven that your brain remembers 10% of what it hears, 40% of what it sees and 80% of what it does. That’s what I think the state of Ohio should do. They won’t make good decisions if the adults are making decisions for kids, that’s why they should do way more of these surveys because they need more of the students input. That is what I think has happened to education and what we need to do about it soon before the USA has the lowest rankings in education."

"I received the attached letter a few days ago from Borgan Williams a student at your school according to the return address. I would Very much like to talk to the teacher that came up with this idea. I was a great one! It makes me very happy to see children thinking of the environment. Myself and a team of 4,217 coworkers responded to the deep water spill, as the second largest responder on that release. I couldn’t agree more with what your student wrote us. We at Eagle SWS would be happy any way to help educate children about the importance of a clean earth environment if needed. We will be sending a letter back to Brogan Williams at your school and I would like to talk to someone to make sure he does receive it.

The letter from Brogan Williams will be emailed out to all of the Eagle-SWS emergency responders within the United States. I know it will make them smile as it did me. Please let Brogan Williams know of the power of one letter and that his one (1) letter will be seen by thousands of emergency response personnel across the country. Please also let him know we at Eagle-SWS hear him loud and clear.

Please tell your staff to keep up the good work.

Please have a someone call me so we can make sure he gets his letter.

Thanks,

Bryan Cincinnati Division Manager Eagle SWS Emergency Response"