Plan and reflect
Plan My Drawing
Before you draw: choose your idea, shapes and colors. After you draw: look back and set a goal.
Thinking sheet · Plan and reflect
Know, Wonder, Learned
Before a topic, write what you know and wonder. After, write and draw what you learned.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Plan and reflect
- Kids practice
- prior knowledge, asking questions, recording learning
What kids do
“Fill in the first two columns before you learn. Fill in the last one after!”
- Our topic:
- Before and after
- Draw the most interesting thing I learned
How to run it
- Fill the first two columns at the start of a unit.
- Return to it at the end: cross out anything that turned out wrong.
- Works for science, history or a book.
Talk about it
- Which “wonder” did we answer?
- Did anything you “knew” turn out to be wrong?
- What do you still wonder?
Take it further
Turn leftover wonders into a research project.
Pairs well with
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