inquiry based learning

Olympics Project: Building Knowledge of our Olympic Athletes

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We’ve made some exciting connections with athletes through social media, which has led to further Olympics inquiry.  Once we’d learned about pairs skaters Paige & Rudi, hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser and skeleton racer Mellisa Hollingsworth, we were excited to find out about other athletes.  Our class decided that our Olympics project should include research to […]

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Olympics Project: Art

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Right from the project launch, there has been great potential for our Olympics project to address a number of subject areas.  One of the first things students suggested was Olympics-themed art, so I was pleased to provide some opportunities this week for students to create art projects that linked to their learning.  After we learned

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Olympics Project: Modeling Internet Research & Encouraging Digital Citizenship

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My hardworking and curious group of Grade 1s has jumped on board for our Olympics learning project.  After our Skype call launch with the OLCS Kindergartens on Tuesday, our class did some research together to answer two of their inquiry questions.  This allowed me to model some basic research.  Students suggested we use the internet

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Olympics Research

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This is a post written with my Grade 1 class after we worked together to research two of their inquiry questions: We had lots of questions about the Olympics.  Here are some of our questions and answers.  What are the circles on fire that we saw in the video?   They are the Olympic rings on

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Olympics Inquiry

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As Mrs. Caldwell just posted, we are going to be working on a collaborative Olympics project with her Kindergarten class!  This morning, we had a Skype call with the Kindergartens.  I explained to the boys and girls that a big event is happening in the world this winter, but did not tell them what special

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