Project Jubilee Gifted Education Program
Conceptual Lens: ILLUMINATION
ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS:
Students will understand that…
GUIDING QUESTIONS:
CURRICULUM CHOICES:
SOCIAL SCIENCES – You’re the Judge, England/ Shakespeare, Knight Life/Middle Ages,
Stock Market, Australia
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) -
Light, Optical Illusions, Oceanography, CSI/Mystery Festival, Chemistry, GLOBE, Engineering is Elementary, Chess, Mentoring Mathematical Minds (M3)
Units of Study (Digging for Data: The Search Within Research; Analyze This: Representing and Interpreting Data; What Are Your Chances?; How Big is Big?),
Lewis Carroll, Lovelace, Babbage, Newton, Venn, Stephen Hawking
MUSIC - Handel, Medieval Music, Australian Tribal Music, Jazz, Andrew Lloyd Webber
ART – Aboriginal Art, M.C. Escher, Winslow Homer, Chihuly, Medieval Manuscripts,
Bayeux Tapestries
OTHER - Genius Hour Projects determined by each student.
Conceptual Lens: ILLUMINATION
ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS:
Students will understand that…
- Illumination is an intellectual awareness that leads to new ideas.
- Illumination can influence individuals and cultures.
GUIDING QUESTIONS:
- How can illumination lead to new ideas and ways of thinking?
- How does illumination influence people and societies?
CURRICULUM CHOICES:
SOCIAL SCIENCES – You’re the Judge, England/ Shakespeare, Knight Life/Middle Ages,
Stock Market, Australia
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) -
Light, Optical Illusions, Oceanography, CSI/Mystery Festival, Chemistry, GLOBE, Engineering is Elementary, Chess, Mentoring Mathematical Minds (M3)
Units of Study (Digging for Data: The Search Within Research; Analyze This: Representing and Interpreting Data; What Are Your Chances?; How Big is Big?),
Lewis Carroll, Lovelace, Babbage, Newton, Venn, Stephen Hawking
MUSIC - Handel, Medieval Music, Australian Tribal Music, Jazz, Andrew Lloyd Webber
ART – Aboriginal Art, M.C. Escher, Winslow Homer, Chihuly, Medieval Manuscripts,
Bayeux Tapestries
OTHER - Genius Hour Projects determined by each student.