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This week, the group decided to go to NPE one last time for this theme. This time, we went to Mrs. Polster's 4th grade class! She decided to split up the groups a little different than the other classes. Each student has a mailbox, and she decided to separate them by even and odd mailboxes. The students who had odd numbered mailboxes went first, and got 13 minutes and 25 seconds. The first group struggled a little bit with the purple directional lock clue, but eventually got it. The second group was the even numbered mailboxes, and they finished with around 9 minutes. Each group got a sucker and had a lot of fun! As a group, we decided that this was the last time we were going to go to NPE for the Spongebob theme. We have still not decided, but we emailed numerous teachers at Sugar Creek Elementary, and plan on going there to present the Spongebob themed breakout box. Once we go there with the Spongebob theme breakout box, we will also be creating a new theme at the same time. We have yet to decide on a theme, but we are currently working on it. Our plan is to hopefully go to Sugar Creek with the Spongebob theme, and then alternate between NPE with the new theme and SCE with the Spongebob theme. The pictures below are the pictures from today's breakout box presentation with Mrs. Polster's 4th grade class! Breakout Number Seven! Our most recent Breakout Box was with Mrs. Cannon's fourth grade class! We really enjoyed going to Sugar Creek Elementary school for the first time as a group. It was a fun and different experience and environment for us to be a part of. As usual, Mrs. Cannon separated the class into two groups. The first group that went got around 11 minutes, which was a pretty good time since the questions were related to what they were learning in class. The second group went and got just over 11 minutes, making the first group that went the winner! Both of the teams did an excellent job of working together and showing leadership. The whole class was very well educated on the topics and were focused on the problems given to them. Below is a picture from Mrs. Cannon's fourth grade class.
Our next plan of action as a group is to go back to Sugar Creek and present our project to three more teachers. The teachers at Sugar Creek really love our idea and are planning to work with us. Unfortunately, on March 7th, we had planned to present our project to two different classes at Sugar Creek, but there was another presenter there that day that involved the entire fourth grade, so we had to reschedule. We are still attempting to reschedule our presentation to a later date. While the group waits for a response from the teachers at Sugar Creek, we are planning to start our second theme, which we believe will be Disney. This may change because this is not a for sure theme yet. All that we know as of now is that we are going to do a second theme and continue to reach out to teachers at various elementary schools to try and present the Breakout Box to their classes.
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Our fifth breakout box and fifth teacher was Mrs. Kleine and her fourth graders! For this breakout box, we had a competition between two different teams. Each team consisted of a group of boys and girls who competed with each other. We set up this breakout box in a spare room next to Mrs. Kleine's room. The first group and second group got the exact same time of about eight minutes each! This ended up being the fastest time ever recorded for this themed breakout box for third or fourth graders! Our group has one more breakout box presentation scheduled for next week, and after this one, we plan on changing our theme. We love the Spongebob Squarepants theme, but we've decided to choose a different theme for our further presentations. We believe that this will give us an opportunity to go back to the amazing teachers we have already presented to, as well as explore further ideas and opportunities.
On January 18th, our group went to Mrs. Oliver's room to present our breakout box. It was a very cold morning and we had a very good time. The kids were very excited when we presented it to them. Mrs. Oliver told us that this was the best her students have behaved. We were very glad that we were able to provide the students with a fun activity that they could enjoy while also learning! This breakout activity was held in the old cafeteria, which is now a Kindergarten room. While the boys waited in Mrs. Oliver's room, the group walked the girls down to the kindergarten room to do the activity. When the girls were finished, the group walked them back, and took the boys to the kindergarten room to complete the activity. The boys finished 30 seconds faster than the girls and won the activity! We took the boys back to Mrs. Oliver's room and told her how good her students did! This breakout box was a huge success! We did our fourth breakout box only a couple of days after this one. Our Fourth Breakout! We did our fourth breakout box on January 29th. This time, it was with Mrs. Rush's fourth grade class. We held this breakout in the little theater. We started with the girls going to the do the activity. They completed it in thirteen minutes. When we brought the girls back to Mrs. Rush's room, we started to do this activity with the boys, and we had to bring them back to Mrs. Rush's room because there was a fire drill right when we started the activity. When we got back inside, we finished the activity with the boys. They finished the activity in ten minutes. That's the fastest time we've had a group complete the breakout box! Now that we've presented the breakout box to a lot of teachers, we're planning on making a new breakout box soon with a different theme and a different set of questions so that we can present it to the same classes as well as new classes. Our first Spongebob themed breakout box was a success! On Wednesday, January 9th, the group went to New Palestine Elementary. Mrs. Purciful was kind enough to allow her 4th graders to participate in this activity. To complete this activity, we took her students and separated them into two teams. One team came in the room with us to do the activity, while the other team stayed in Mrs. Purciful's room with her. The first team completed the activity in 17 minutes, and the second group completed it in 13 minutes. The students really loved the activity, and we enjoyed working with them. The team who got the lower time received 2 suckers, while the other team received one. This was a really fun project, and we are going to continue to do this project as long as we can. We have later dates set up with different teachers already. All we have to do is adjust some of the problems from a 4th grade level to a 3rd grade level. We will continue to make adjustments to the activity, improving it with each time we present it. Below are the pictures of the fourth graders completing the activity. Second Breakout Activity! On Wednesday, January 16th, the group went back to the same elementary school that we went to the week before. This time, we presented the project to a group of third graders. We made a couple of the clues a little bit easier than the ones for the fourth graders. The third graders had a ton of fun, and Mrs. Canada was very glad that we were able to show up to her class and present this activity. This time, instead of the winning team receiving two suckers, they received 5 extra minutes of recess. This time, Mrs. Canada wanted to do a boys vs. girls competition, and the girls won by a couple of seconds. Below are the pictures from today's activities. We would like to thank Mrs. Canada and NPE for letting us present this activity to them! It was a very fun experience, and the students really enjoyed it. NPBid is at a point where we are not able to progress our project any further as of now, so the same group is moving on to a different project previously explained in NPBid's most recent post on November 26th. There are seven locks that the students have to attempt to unlock. Each lock is a different type of lock. There's a directional lock, two locks with keys, a four letter lock, a five letter lock, a four numbered lock, and a box that has a lock on it. We started off by emailing teachers at New Palestine Elementary School to see if any of them would be interested. Luckily, we got four responses. We plan to present our first Breakout Box on Wednesday, January 9th, which is the Wednesday after Christmas Break. In order to prepare for this, we started a google doc in which we listed all of the clues and worked on our own designated lock. We will later work on the three other locks together. Once we get all of the locks reset and get all of the codes straight, we will test run the project to our class if things go to plan and timing is right. We are very excited to be working on this project and can't wait to present it! My Lock! My lock is a purple directional lock where you have to move a button in the middle either up, down, left, or right, in order to solve the lock. My clues include a picture of the Krusty Krab, with hidden arrows in the picture. There are five hidden arrows, one of which is protected by an invisible ink pen. With the pen, I wrote on the paper "combo: small to large". With this, the kids will be able to figure out that the lock goes from the smallest arrow to the largest arrow. I also drew the fifth and largest arrow on the paper pointing to the right, indicating that the last direction in the lock is to the right. Students will use critical thinking as well as team building to solve this lock. The students will solve each lock in order to get to the end, and when they get to the end, they will receive a prize.
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