As part of their Life and Living Science unit the Year 3 and 4 classes are researching an animal. The classroom teachers were keen to give the students a choice of 5 preselected animals to research. As well as the usual information about habitat, description and behaviour, the teachers wanted the children to identify where the animal fits in to a food chain.
After talking to the year 4 teacher, we both decided to give the students a wider choice of animals to research. We will use the Australia Zoo website to choose an animal as they will be going on an excursion there at the end of the term.
I also spoke to the Classroom Teacher (CT) about discussing and negotiating with the students about what questions they would research. I was really pleased when she agreed and was really interested in letting the chn come up with their own set of questions to research.
It should be interesting working with this group of children as they have had very little experience with inquiry based learning, and while this task will be very limited as far as true inquiry goes, I'm hoping it may lead to more complex tasks in the future.
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