Monday, July 3, 2017

CapCon! 2017 - a capstone learning conference

Every year the 5th graders of Scarsdale participate in Capstone. Capstone is the last two months of school, post-standardized testing. Students choose a topic, research it, and create a final product. It is designed to be a self-directed, passion/interest based assignment. And it ends with a tri-fold board...

For the second year in a row our school decided to turn it on it's head. We launched CapCon! last year, and this year we did it again...

We began the 2017 CapCon! season the same way we did in 2016, with a "No more tri-folds" blog post and lesson.

Here's how we did it...