Novelty
Challenge: How might we create "Curiosity Challenges" that are spontaneous that center students interests? How might teachers and parents encourage this?
Prototype: Ideas for how to start and guide a Curiosity Challenge
Curiosity Challenge Steps
Step One
What are you curious about?
Step Two
Start with an exploration into the topic.
Step Three
What did you first discover?
What questions do you have?
What else do you want to learn about it?
Step Four
Share your thoughts with others.
Examples
I'm curious about...
What's in the ocean? (K)
Brains (E)
How many animals are going extinct? (C)
Butterflies (I)
I looked up information...
Websites
Books
Videos
Articles
Music
I created artifacts about what I learned...
Pictures
Questions
Facts
Thoughts
I shared what I found interesting with others through...
Sharing facts
Images
Storytelling
Connections to math
What's in the ocean?
95% of all life lives in the ocean
The ocean covers 71% of the Earth.
The sun gives the ocean a blue tint.
Humans have only seen 5% of the ocean.
Brains
Your brain takes up 2% of your body weight.
73% of your brain is water.
How many animals are going extinct?
Animal Planet Extinct or Alive
Sunday Morning episode on "Extinction"
Of all species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 percent are now extinct. Many of them perished in five cataclysmic events.
Scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours. This is nearly 1,000 times the “natural” or “background” rate and, say many biologists, is greater than anything the world has experienced since the vanishing of the dinosaurs nearly 65m years ago.
There are 100 million different species co-existing with us on our planet - then between 10,000 and 100,000 species are becoming extinct each year.
Butterflies
30 Beautiful Facts About Butterflies | The Fact Site
Fun fact: butterflies are color blind so they can't see how beautiful they are
How might we connect these topics to math?
Some ideas include:
Using sentence starters and links to find connections.
Examples:
The ocean connects to math...because you need to do math to find the percentages of stuff like how much the ocean covers the globe.
The brain connects to math...
Animal extinction connects to math...
LINKS: