The Red Sun Genius Hour Projects
By Leestown Middle School 6th Grade Students
Student working on rubric draft
Ms. Herald discusses how to create rubrics
Students working on rubric drafts
Students needed a clear understanding of their goals before creating a rubric
Ms. Graham (Science Teacher) drops in to check out student work.
Students come in before school to work on project
Students Share Work
Before Presenting at Leestown in Bloom
After their presentation they received feedback from their peers and could chose to revise their work.
Google Photos
The Red Sun by Alane Adams 6th Grade Genius Hour Projects Leestown Middle School
Used Google Slides to Gather Student Work
After finishing their slide they could browse other student slides.
The Red Sun Vodcast
Audience: People who have already read the book.
The Red Sun Jeopardy Game
Purpose: The purpose of my project is to let kids have fun while they are learning and reviewing.
Audience: The audience is students and teachers.
Artwork/Podcast Video
The purpose of our project is to get young people interested in the “Red Sun,” book, so they might read it and understand it.
The audience of our project is young people who would be interested in reading the book “Red Sun” and Alane Adams is also our audience.
Our project is on youtube and we need someone to get it off.Red Sun Cupcakes
The purpose of our project is to have our audience interact with our project. And to have people learn about our the Red Sun and enjoy a cupcake that represent one character out of five that we picked.
Our audience for the project is everyone because even people who haven’t read the book can still interact with our project.
The Red Sun Merchandise:
For our project we made t-shirts, we made bookmarks, and we made mad-libs.
~ In the picture it shows Maddie on the left and Timothi on the right. Unfortunately, Amanda (our other partner) wasn’t able to come.
Red Sun video summary
The purpose of my project is putting a show on our morning show(A show we have to broadcast stuff in the mornings) to advertise the book. This Will go out to anyone who watches the morning show.
Red Sun Guess Who Game
Purpose: The purpose is to convince kids to read all of the books and learn all of the characters.
Audience: People who are interested in Reading or has read the bookThe Red Sun Movie Trailer
This movie trailer was made by Abigail and Cybill
We hope you all are entertained by this trailer
This project was aimed towards people that have read The Red SunMinecraft Build Video -Ryan Brock
The purpose of my project is to give a 3-D experience of one of the many scenes from the book.
The audience is for young adults and anyone who likes Minecraft.
Aursama Interactive Poster
An Interactive Poster:
n this project we (Taylor and Abby) made a poster for the book “The Red Sun”, then using the platform Aurasma we created “trigger images” in the poster. Aurasma takes a “trigger image” and when scanned with Aurasma will bring up additional information (in this case a picture).
A Map of Orkney
Purpose: to show people a map of Orkney Me (Ben)->
Audience: People who read the book and want to see a visual of Orkney on a map with different important locations on it.
Jasper's boat 2-D image
The purpose of my project is to show a 2-D image of what I think Jasper's boat looks like so that people that have not read the book can see a visual of what Jasper's boat looks like.
The audience for my project would be art lovers.
Leestown in Bloom Brochure
Purpose:To help people get around.
Audience:Alane Adams and everyone who comes to
Leestown in bloom.
Leestown Middle School 6th Grade Pre - Engineering Class
A collaborative effort between Claudett Edie (Library Media Specialist) and Leslie Herald (6th grade LA teacher)
Email: claudett.edie@fayette.kyschools.us
Website: https://blogs.fcps.net/lmslib/
Location: Lexington, KY, United States
Phone: 859-381-3181
Twitter: @cmedie