Year 4
How do you engage students into a new unit of work?
Our Year 4 teachers asked this question when planning for this term’s inquiry unit into how we are connected to the rest of the world. One way teachers engage students is by designing a purposeful provocation. Provocations allow us to spark learning opportunities. They ignite thought, curiosity, wonder, engagement, and questions with our learners.
The Year 4 teachers designed two provocations. Students were met with a display of our universe as they walked into school last Wednesday. It immediately sparked curiosities with the students and the questions came thick and fast. It generated a great enthusiasm for students and teachers alike.
This was then followed by an incursion about the seasons, night and day, and the Earth, Sun and Moon’s movements and phases. The students were immersed inside the Science Discovery Dome and learnt about…
You can play a part to enliven the engagement of our students by asking questions to spark curiosity about our unit into how we are connected to the rest of the world.
