Room 12 Inquiry

Term 4 Inquiry - Work and Leisure

Rm12 Term 4 Inquiry - Work and Leisure

This is a 9 week term.
There are nine learning activities for you to complete.
These can be done in any order.
Remember one week is taken up with camp, so you need to work smarter in order to master the Term 4 Inquiry Concept.
Good luck!

Term 3 Inquiry - Sustainability

Coding, Animation, Powtoon

We need your creation uploaded to your blog.

Here is the link to show us you have finished.

What are you waiting for?

Inquiry

Our Purpose

We currently have an issue with Litter at school.

The Enviroteam are keen to refine our processes and systems around reducing the amount of waste we produce.

Turning around our plastics problem

Owl Calendar Art

Calendar Art

Choose whether you would like to complete your Owl using pastel or zen tangles with dye.

What are your noticings from the clip?
What are different perspectives?
How does this relate to our LN?
Think of an example when you had a different perspective from your classmate.
How do you collaborate with others who have a different perspective?
How can you get your learn on when you are surrounded by different perspectives?

Seeing things From a Different Perspective

The days of students silently working independently from textbooks at desks neatly arranged into perfect rows are long gone! In today’s classroom, you’re more likely to see students standing or sitting together around tables or huddling on the rug, gesturing and talking excitedly, drawing diagrams on tablets, sketching ideas on whiteboards, or gathered around computers.

Collaborative learning is a 21st-century skill and when students work collaboratively, they become involved in a process that promotes cooperation and builds community. New ideas are generated as students give one another feedback. Collaboration creates a culture that values every student’s strengths and an environment that believes that everyone can learn from one another.

De Bono's 6 Thinking Hats

These hats give us an opportunity to see things from different perspectives before we make a decision or solve a problem.

So those are the Thinking Hats in a nutshell. We are going to use the idea of the Thinking Hats to discuss ideas around our class shared novel, "Once."

How Will Thinking Hats help us to Get Our Learn On?

Chapter Four: Once I escaped from an orphanage in the mountains and I didn’t have to do any of the things you do in escape stories. (p27)

1. List some of the reasons Felix considers himself ‘lucky’ (p30)?

2. List things you think he could complain about.

3. What indications are there – recognized or missed by Felix – that something is terribly wrong?

4. What explanations does Felix come up with to make sense of things? –

Why would the truth be the furthest thing from Felix’s mind given what he is witnessing? Is it a blessing or a curse for him to be able to explain everything or reason an acceptable outcome?