Create a sport using the items in your mystery box. Answer all the questions below (add your own questions and answers, as needed). Explain the rules on a video with your partner.

Information on the 2017 Global Invent-It Challenge: http://challenges.epals.com/inventit2017/

Due March 17, 2017 (tentatively).

Click on the image above to teach yourself about each step in the Invention Process.

Visit the website here: https://www.youngscientistlab.com/challenge


Ideas that might get your creative juices flowing:

We are going to partner each of you up with a student from another country somewhere in the world! You will take turns writing back and forth with each other and I will give you both things to talk about (but you can always talk about things that you choose as well).

Go to penpalschools.com and type in the following Join Code:

The philosophy of Pay It Forward is that through acts of kindness among strangers, we all foster a more caring society. Pay It Forward is a moving, uplifting novel about Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town who accepts his teacher’s challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world. Trevor’s idea is simple: do a good deed for three people, and instead of asking them to return the favor, ask them to “pay it forward” to three others who need help. He envisions a vast movement of kindness and goodwill spreading across the world, and in this “quiet, steady masterpiece with an incandescent ending” (Kirkus Reviews), Trevor’s actions change his community forever.
- Source

Website: http://www.lifevestinside.com/dfk/

If we want to do this, I may need to register us here: http://www.lifevestinside.com/dfk/register-to-lead/

Geography:
- Find each location online and put a pin in it on our classroom World Map.

Create our own version:
- Take a photo of a location in Arlington Heights that you would like to highlight for the world to see (for the background).
- Create a short series of dance moves and teach those moves to 1-4 others.
- Perform it in front of the green screen in the LMC and record it. (Make sure you are all "in sync"!)
- Add it to the class iMovie video and type a subtitle that explains where "you are."

1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire.  They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend.  The criticism is distasteful and unjustified.  What do you do?
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do?  What’s holding you back?
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once?  Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
22. Why are you, you?
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
25. What are you most grateful for?
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset?  Does it really matter now?
30. What is your happiest childhood memory?  What makes it so special?
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
32. If not now, then when?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
48. What do you love?  Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday?  What about the day before that?  Or the day before that?
50. Decisions are being made right now.  The question is:  Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?
    

Source: http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/

Information: http://www.valleybreeze.com/2016-06-14/north-providence/students-take-google-goggles#.V3v9iY59KRP

Ideas: http://ditchthattextbook.com/2016/08/18/12-ways-to-use-google-cardboard-in-your-class/

Link to the 2016 Global Folklorist Challenge: http://challenges.epals.com/folklife2016/the-challenge/

Due November 30, 2016.