Inquiry+RE

Junior Inquiry Term 2 **__Student Sequence of Learning Checklist __** || **Activity ** ** ENGAGE ** ||  || [|http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/cubic-foot/liittschwager-photography#/video/] ||^   ||   || We will need to care for the space which we are digging in and look after any creature we find. ||^  ||   || What is a mini-beast? Where do they live? Does our world need mini-beasts? Are they pests? What are the different stages of their lives? When do we notice mini-beast activity? (seasons) What is my responsibility to care for mini-beast?
 * **Program ** ||  **Focus **  ||   ||
 * **WallWisher ** || Post your wonderings about Mini-beasts and their life cycles on the wallwisher. || ** Tuning In **
 * **YouTube Video ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Watch video on “one cubic foot” on YouTube and post a comment.
 * **<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Playground Safari ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Playground Safari: //This classification activity encourages us to- find, look, record, sketch and identify.//
 * **<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Investigation for your Inquiry ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Questions we want to answer: **

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Look at the pictures of different mini-beasts on the pics4learning site. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">[] || ** Finding Out ** ** EXPLORE ** ** EXPLAIN And Sorting Out ** ||  || ||^   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Research ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Each week in groups we will demonstrate their understanding of the life cycle of the “bug of the week” using one of the following:
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Play dough **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">PowerPoint **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Poster/flow chart **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Creative construction **
 * **<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Design a bug ** || # <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Design and build your own mini-beast using the super bug website []

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-white cotton gloves <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-glue <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-leaves <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-cut corks <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-laminated picture <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-Velcro <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-and other materials that might be specific for their creature life cycle. || ** ELABORATE Going Further ** ||  || ** EVALUATE ** ** Making Conclusions and Taking Action ** ||  ||
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Hand life cycles: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">develop a life cycle for your bug and demonstrate it using the white gloves and materials.
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Resources: **
 * **<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Action ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Taking Action **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Discuss any attitude changes e.g. pests and use of bug spray on mini-beasts and the care taken when walking through a mini-beasts environment.
 * Student Reflection**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Ask students to record their answers in their learning journals:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Write the following questions on three large pieces of butcher’s paper:-
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Ask groups of students to record their answers on the butcher’s paper.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Have each group revisit their mind maps
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Revisit
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Bring these together as a class and brainstorm
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Have students reflect on the process used ||^  ||   ||