Students express curiosity about a phenomenon, object, situation, or similar by formulating statements beginning with “I wonder about…”.
This method is effective for stimulating students’ curiosity and encouraging them to wonder without immediately seeking answers. It creates space for new thoughts and ideas within a creative learning process.
Choose or ask students to choose a phenomenon, object, situation, or something else they wonder about.
Students observe the phenomenon, object, or situation by looking at it in real life, if possible. Alternatively, pictures, artefacts, and/or videos are shown.
Students formulate statements beginning with “I wonder about…” and write all their questions down on the worksheet My Wonder.
Once they have formulated a minimum number of wonder statements, students rephrase the statements into questions.
Encourage them to ask as many questions as possible for each wonder statement.
Use the Silent Brainstormingmethod for students to individually write many wonder statements.
Encourage students to find at least 10 things they wonder about to keep curiosity going beyond their first question.
Students can try to answer their questions one at a time. Unanswered questions can be posted on a shared classroom wall using the Question Wall method.
Invite students to ask “silly” or “strange” questions to remove fear of being wrong and to spark creativity.
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