Year+4+The+Balancing+Act+Student+Inquiry

I posted a comment to Camille on our Year 4 blog responding to her question “Does anyone have any other examples of how technology is supporting inquiry work and student learning?”

I would like to post some of my students examples of stop motion which the 4th and 5th grade students have been working on. This project has taken way longer than expected (and longer than any other animation project that I have set up for them in the past), however this time the work is all theirs. We are all very enthused about the work happenings. I will add movies as they are finished.... we are coming close- thinking about collaborating with the music teacher to add sound created by students.

I wanted to focus on Group Inquiry with my younger students (this project was done with 1st grade students). I believe Inquiry is integrated in many lessons, but this time I wanted to try to have the students work in groups and partake in inquiry which was conducted by them. First, they worked with a partner to rip pieces of paper into pieces. They thought about a landscape and how they could use the papers to turn their work into a landscape. Next, they arranged their papers together on their own, continuing to think about how the land would meet with another persons paper.