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
Why? Why? Why?
Ask “why?” five times in a row about something simple and see how deep you can go.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Look and wonder
- Kids practice
- questioning, cause and effect, persistence
What kids do
“Why is the sky blue? Why…? Keep asking why!”
- My first question:
- Climb down: each answer gets another why
- Draw the deepest answer
- Where I got stuck, and who could help:
How to run it
- Start with an everyday question: Why do we sleep?
- It’s fine to write “I don’t know yet.”
- Research the step where you got stuck.
Talk about it
- How deep did you get?
- Which why was hardest?
- Do grown-ups know all the answers?
Take it further
Ask a grown-up to try your why chain.
Pairs well with
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