Express
Express Phase of Inquiry
Construct new understandings connected to previous knowledge
Draw conclusions about questions and hypotheses
Stripling About this Phase
The pupils make an expression of their learnings and understadning of the big idea from the inquiry.
Creativity is a huge part of this phase, begining the cycle with showing the kids what tools they can use will create engagement throughout the process.
Stripling, B. (2009) Teaching Inquiry with Primary Sources. Teaching with Primary Sources Quarterly. 2(3), 3-4https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/teachers/about-this-program/teaching-with-primary-sources-partner-program/documents/inquiry-learning.pdf
Examples of Tools
Podcast, make their own weather forecast with a green screen, Book Creator, Canva, animated movie, make a documentary from all their investigations, Powerpoint presentation
Let the children take a part of the decision of how they want to express their findings!
Examples of How to Use Tools to Express Findings
Make a Song, Dance, Act
Make a dance and/or a song of what the pupil has learned
Create a play out of their learnings, and how they learned it.
Green Screen
Make their own weather forecast with explanation on why and how this is the weather. A weather forecast format will hopefully make the investigations meaningful and can lead them into a new inquiry cycle with questions like how does one know what weather will come and old myths about weather.
Cartoon
Let the pupils make cartoons as proof of investigations, experiments and learnings.
Use: Canva,
Water Cycle
One of the groups chose to make an interactive experience/sensory room for the other students as their way to express their findings from the inquiry cycles. the drawing on the left is a representation of how this went.
During art class, the students made clouds to hang from the roof out of wool they got from a sheep farm, and they strung threads and bands from the clouds with beads to represent the rain droplets.
To represent more than one modality, they had a video looping on one wall of the rainy weather and a speaker playing the sound of rain.
On a table they had a humidifyer where the other children, teachers (and parents) could have first hand experience with the evaporation of the water, and experience how the vapor formed waterdroplets on their hands when the hot vapor changed into cold liquid water.
They also had a computer on the side showing a video they made from the water cycle bag.
