Very early on in our current unit of inquiry, Emma made the connection between shadows and the story of Peter Pan. We have been talking about what we know about the story of Peter Pan and his shadow since then and last week watched a video of Peter Pan chasing his shadow. The video isn't only about shadows though! It also gave us an opportunity to demonstrate our knowledge about reflections as there is a segment of Tinkerbelle viewing her reflection in a mirror.
We watched the video several times, each time discussing what we saw and thought was happening. We then used a Harvard Project Zero visible thinking routine called 'Claim-Support-Question' to help us express what we knew already and extend our thinking and questioning further. Here are the questions we asked ourselves:
Claim: What is happening?
Support: What do you see or know that makes you say this?
Question: What are you still wondering about?
Through the Claim-Support-Question thinking routine we were able to clarify what knowledge we had mastered as a group already and form some questions which represented what was still unclear. We look forward to investigating the following questions as our inquiry continues:
Claim: What is happening?
Support: What do you see or know that makes you say this?
Question: What are you still wondering about?
Through the Claim-Support-Question thinking routine we were able to clarify what knowledge we had mastered as a group already and form some questions which represented what was still unclear. We look forward to investigating the following questions as our inquiry continues:
- Why does the glass make a reflection? How does it make a reflection?
- Why does your shadow move when you move?