B. Henry-James

Enrichment Educator for Brookings School District. Engagement with problem & project-based learning, creative & critical thinking, and connecting to community.

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Design Challenge Escape Room Event! Huge thanks to all the staff @middle_sd that helped judge and tried out the escape rooms!

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Playdough and electrical engineering?! YES! Discovering conductive & insulating playdough and circuits at Camelot. #handsonscience

Lesson adopted from: https://t.co/xR6SNEHOH2

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Camelot GeoBee 2021!

Huge thanks to Camelot PTA for sponsoring Student Atlases for all of our top 10 students and to Dr. Watrel from the SDSU Geography Department for reading for us and awarding Oxford Atlases to top two students.

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One last one of Alex with his medal, certificate, and SD history stickers for making it to Nationals. Thank you @NationalHistory for offering this learning platform!

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Congratulations to Alex Kidangathazhe on qualifying for Nationals with his National History Day individual website project!

The Statue of Liberty: Communicationg American Values to the World

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Experiment stations during lunch enrichment at Camelot. Success taking place at the egg-drop station. #gravity

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Escape room challenge at Camelot:
Escaping Medusa and working with Olympian gods to help Perseus defeat her. #ChallengeAccepted #GreekMythology #Greek #Latin #Roots

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Call it magic... call it #science... #Experiments taking place at Camrlot during lunch enrichment. 🥽

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MMS students working on Escape Room Design Challenge brainstorm. Goal: 5 clues, 5 locks, 3 different types of locks, and a creative design. Budget: $15 and repurposing and recycling materials is encouraged.

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Greek & Latin roots extension activity: Greekymons & Spellbooks with our Camelot students. Creatures galore!

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Team Challenge: #communicate, find items to get to your point goal, keep your blindfolded player from stepping on items.

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Our Iditarod postcards are sent! Each student enjoyed writing a postcard, sharing about our state and hometown, and learning about other places. Thank you @IditarodEdu for organizing this project! Thanks to @kevinsmithsd and daughter for helping us out with local postcards!

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Iditarod Race 2021 begins this Saturday, March 6th! Students are picking activities from a choice board focused on the Iditarod. Musher profiles have drawn great interest!

You can check out free broadcast options at https://t.co/c3aUGl2RaR.

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Ozobot and @SpheroEdu challenges wrap up! Way to go 6th grade on exploring #coding and #programming!

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Spaced Learning application!

Can we shorten the time of studying by incorporating 10 minute increments of activity? And retain information better?

We will see!

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Congratulations to the following students for their achievements on the American Mathematics Competition (AMC 8): bronze goes to Adrian Anderson & Vedant Sharan and silver goes to Ernest Ting. Our first place winner that earned gold at our school is Joseph Michna! @middle_sd

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We are receiving postcards at Camelot for the Iditarod Postcard Challenge. We're enjoying learning unique aspects of various states!

@IditarodEdu thanks for this opportunity!

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Odyssey of the Mind extension activity: Foil Characters

Students at Camelot share their group skits incorporating their foil characters and unique qualities.

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We're starting to receive postcards for the Iditarod Postcard Challenge! Looking forward to learning more about our states and sharing about SD! @IditarodEdu

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Congratulations to the top 4 spellers in MMS Spelling Bee: Anika Hooda, Aedan Lansang, Dinithi Senevirathna, and Jean-Claude St. Pierre. All of these students will advance to the regional spelling bee in Watertown in late January. Congratulations to ALL of the participants!