Humboldt County Office of Education: 2021 Student Showcase | GATE Academy

Science Escape Room

• School: Trinidad Elementary
• Grade: 8
• Project Type: Unlock Your Own Adventure

Project Description

A virtual escape room with puzzles and riddles to solve in order to escape the clutches of a mad scientist.

Student Comment

This was a new experience and it was super fun to make. It was a mental challenge to layer science lessons with the GATE Challenge requirements.

Coordinator Comment

Ella is a scholar. She pushes to persevere through challenges and meet her goals she sets for herself. This is an amazing project that was well researched and thought through to meet the challenge’s highest expectations.

Jayden’s Garden

• School: Fortuna Middle
• Grade: 6
• Project Type: Create a Garden

Project Description

Jayden created a model of a garden using recycled materials. Jayden researched the best vegetables to grow in our area.

Student Comment

Jayden hopes to build a real garden at Fortuna Middle School.

Coordinator Comment

Jayden conducted research on the best plants to grow in Humboldt County. He then collected recycled materials from home and school to build his model. He asked the principal if he could grow a school garden in the spring and was given permission to do so.

Virtual Tour of Japan

• School: McKinleyville Middle
• Grade: 6
• Project Type: Virtual Tour

Project Description

Virtual Tour of Japan takes one through a tour or both Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan and a few of the highlights you might experience as a tourist there.

Coordinator Comment

This tour makes me want to visit Japan, especially the gardens and sushi spots.

What’s In My Garden?

• School: McKinleyville Middle
• Grade: 7
• Project Type: Create a Garden

Project Description

What’s in My Garden shows a blueprint and plan for a real garden as well as a model made from objects found around the home that represent the vegetables, flowers, trees, and other garden elements.

Coordinator Comment

This is a fun project. I love the way Liana shows us what the elements in the model were made from.

Anxiety Tips & Tricks

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: TedTalk GateX

Project Description

Kaiya shares her own experience and tips and tricks she has learned in hope of helping others.

Zaiden’s Garden

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 4
• Project Type: Create a Garden

Project Description

Zaiden gives a tour of “The Garden.”

Oahu, Hawaii Virtual Tour

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 4
• Project Type: Virtual Tour

Project Description

A virtual tour of the island of Oahu Hawaii

Iris’ Vegetable Garden

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 4
• Project Type: Create a Garden

Project Description

Iris gives a tour of her vegetable garden!

Fisher Farms: For all your Fresh Flora Goodness

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Create a Garden

Project Description

A tour of Fisher Farms: For all your fresh flora goodness by Jack.

Virtual Tour of Venice, Italy

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Virtual Tour

Project Description

Emaleigh shares a virtual tour of Venice, Italy.

Smith Family Garden

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Create a Garden

Project Description

Smith Family Garden tour by Zoe

Poem about Friendship

• School: Washington Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: GATE Kids Got Talent

Project Description

I wrote this because for me finding friends was hard, and it was harder being alone. Then I got through those hard times by going out of my comfort zone and making friends so now I had supporting friends. They help me get through those hard times because now I’m not alone. So that’s why I wrote this poem, my friends are all these things and more.

Virtual Tour: Nepal

• School: Pacific Union
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Virtual Tour

Project Description

Ankit draws upon his family’s experience in this virtual tour of Nepal.

BreakoutEDU Game: Road Trip

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Unlock Your Own Adventure

Project Description

Charlie has created an online game with BreakoutEDU. Click the button below to play the game. Find signup instructions here. If you get stuck, the answer key is here. No cheating! 🙂 

BreakoutEDU Game: Turn Back!

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 6
• Project Type: Unlock Your Own Adventure

Project Description

Jerome has created an online game with BreakoutEDU. Click the button below to play the game. Find signup instructions here. If you get stuck, the answer key is here. No cheating! 🙂

Go Out and Garden

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Create a Garden

Project Description

View Peyton’s garden presentation for inspiration to Go Out and Garden yourself!

The Monterey Bay Aquarium

• School: Arcata Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Virtual Tour

Project Description

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is my favorite place in the world. It’s a huge place where you can look at lots of different kinds of animals that live in water. Check it out!

B & C Botanicals

• School: Monument Middle School
• Grade: 6
• Project Type: Create a Garden

Project Description

B & C Botanicals is a vegetable and floral garden. We chose to grow tomatoes in the garden because they can grow well in Humboldt County with the correct living situation. We wanted part of the garden to be vegetables, like the tomatoes and cucumbers, and part of it to be flowers. Our garden has hydrangeas, sunflowers, and daisies because they look good in our garden and they grow well with our Humboldt County weather. We put succulents in our garden because they live locally, look good, and look realistic. They live for a long time without dying or rotting. They are low maintenance too. We decided to do a pattern between the flowers and vegetables to make it look nice.

The materials used to build our garden were fake grass and flowers. We made the vegetables out of clay. The bushes were made out of fake moss with flowers added to them. We surrounded the garden with a white picket fence.

BreakoutEDU Game: Broken Machinery

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 4
• Project Type: Unlock Your Own Adventure

Project Description

Iris has created an online game with BreakoutEDU. Santa and his elves are in big trouble. There machines are broken and it’s only 5 days till Christmas! Can you help them fix there machinery in time?

Click the button below to play the game. Find signup instructions here. If you get stuck, the answer key is here. No cheating! 🙂

BreakoutEDU Game: Kitchen Trouble

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Unlock Your Own Adventure

Project Description

Jack has created an online game with BreakoutEDU. Click the button below to play the game. Find signup instructions here. If you get stuck, the answer key is here. No cheating! 🙂

How I Overcame My Fear

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 4
• Project Type: GATE Kids Got Talent

Project Description

Maya created a short video presentation about overcoming her fears when playing Minecraft.

Pondy: A Metaphorical Story

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 6
• Project Type: GATE Kids Got Talent

Project Description

Pondy is a metaphorical story revolved of a lonely frog, stuck in his own small pond. Within this magnificent story of a single low life creature, beaming towards his next future. Listen in to this small but large moraled story, for a cleansing of how the small things matter in life. Truly, the bases and things humanity takes for granted, is what truly makes our life as fantastic and magical, but shall never be fully accounted for. Nonetheless, a newborn baby – or a frog, finds everything perfect and divine. Join us across this small adventure, starting with a small blind frog; who sees better than anyone else, even without vision.

Flight of the Dragon

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 6
• Project Type: GATE Kids Got Talent

Project Description

This is a story of a dwarf named Bäerst whose goats get stolen by a dragon. He climbs up the mountain and kills the dragon, and returns home victorious.

Choishi-michi Pilgrimage and Shukubo Temple Stay

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 6
• Project Type: Virtual Tour

Project Description

A virtual Choishi-michi Pilgrimage and Shukubo Temple Stay

Pyramids of Egypt

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Virtual Tour

Project Description

A slideshow about the fascinating pyramids.

A Place to Visit: Ireland

• School: Cutten Elementary
• Grade: 5
• Project Type: Virtual Tour

Project Description

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to see a castle? Maybe you really like tasting different foods? On my slideshow, I can explain that Ireland is the best place to visit to satisfy these needs. From the beautiful scenery to the astounding history, I believe that Ireland is a great place to visit for a vacation.