Look and wonder
Notice, Think, Wonder
Study a strange little alien, then sort your ideas into what you notice, what you think and what you wonder.
Thinking sheet · Look and wonder
Ant’s-Eye View
Shrink down to the size of an ant and draw the playground (or your desk) the way a tiny creature sees it.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Look and wonder
- Kids practice
- perspective, scale, descriptive writing
What kids do
“You just shrank to the size of an ant. What does the world look like now?”
- Where I am:
- Draw what you see from down low (everything is GIANT)
- The scariest and the coolest giant things:
How to run it
- Let kids lie on the floor or put their eyes at desk level first.
- Talk about how a crayon could look like a tree trunk.
- Pair with a lesson on insects or on size.
Talk about it
- What would be hard about being tiny?
- What would be easy?
- How do animals of different sizes see the world?
Take it further
Draw the same place from a bird’s-eye view, looking down.
Pairs well with
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