Passion Projects

According to one of the first people to use 20Time in the classroom student need autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Autonomy: "Students need more freedom in what they learn and how they learn it. These projects provide the student agency necessary to spark curiosity and drive innovation." Mastery: "20Time projects allow students to track their learning growth, which supercharges intrinsic motivation. Way more effective than grades and other carrots and sticks." Purpose: "20Time projects serve a real purpose to meet the needs of clients, audiences, and customers. True passion follows purpose." -from 20time.org

20timeineducation.com offers that 20% projects are where "Students will choose one learning goal/project to study and implement over the course of an extended period of time- usually one semester or an entire school year. Many teachers encourage students to choose a service project. Whatever the project is, students learn about one thing all year." Genius hour takes this concept and shortens things. Maybe instead of entire class periods set aside throughout the year you offer 10 or 20 minutes increments of time throughout your regularly planned classes for student work time on passion projects. 

This course will walk you through what Passion Projects are, the foundation to build before starting, getting started, the project, and presentations.

Upon completing this course you will know much more about Passion Projects and how you get them started in your classroom!