Asking Questions

This past week, we had two community helper visits - one from a local police officer and another from a firefighter. Before each visit, the students came up with a ton of questions to learn more about them. We introduced the “Wonder Wall” during these lessons by writing the students’ questions on sticky notes and adding them to the speech bubbles above their heads.

 This was the first time we had generated questions as a class, and were super impressed with the kids’ inquiries! During inquiry, students are encouraged to generate questions to drive their own learning, so these activities supported our IB unit perfectly! We plan to do several more asking questions lessons before transitioning to having the students add questions about anything they wonder about, at any time, to the “Wonder Wall.”