The Power of Inquiry in Nature - Article Written for Zhuhai International School
With the start of the Year 3 Sharing the Planet unit, we have been spending some time on our wonderful school campus, observing the flora and fauna. We are really lucky to be in the location that we are in, in terms of all of the opportunities we have to engage in learning in the outdoors. Year 3 has been spending time outside doing both Mathematical and Scientific observations. In terms of Mathematics, we have been looking at the symmetry we can find in nature. We went outside to find once living and natural materials and then brought them back to class to sketch. Students were also invited to look at pictures of other plants and animals in books, in order to further examine the concept of symmetry. Moving forward we will go back into nature (onto school campus, and the beach) to look at the different shapes that we can find. For our scientific observations, students were closely observing their environment and writing or drawing about what they saw / writing their questions. Through