Constructing Knowledge

This week 2C and 2D have been constructing their own knowledge, the question we kept in mind when planning was 'How can we enable deeper thinking and learning?'.

The students engaged in the following tasks and activities as part of our Unit of Inquiry. Rather than the teacher taking centre stage, students worked together with a partner to inquire and understand the four science topics through these student questions:

• What causes seasons?
• What causes changes in the moon?
• Why do we have day and night?
• Why do we have time zones?

Some skills the students were using were:

• note taking
• reflecting on information on whether it was 'trash' or 'treasure' and could answer the question they were inquiring about.
• group decision making skills
• visual interpretation of information
• analysing digital and print resources and deciding what information to extract

Note-taking Introduction and Practice

Using digital media

Using Print resources

Once students collected and constructed their knowledge in their inquiry journals, they engaged in a marketplace where they shared their knowledge with other students.