This document discusses using web tools to promote critical thinking in an inquiry-based curriculum. It provides an example task using the website Spezify.com to research how geographical features impact settlement development. Students are asked to search for information on the central idea, demonstrate their understanding in groups, and reflect on the research skills used, how the tool promotes critical thinking, and how it relates to an inquiry cycle.
12. Geographical features impact
the development of settlements
Lines of inquiry:
? Why are there so many volcanoes in Indonesia?
? How do volcanoes build and destroy the
environment?
? Why would anyone want to live near a
volcano?
14. ? Formulating Questions
? Observing
? Planning
? Collecting data
? Recording data
? Organising data
? Interpreting data
? Presenting finding
Taken from p 23 Making the PYP Happen: A curriculum framework for international primary education
16. Task:
1. Go to spezify.com
2. Do a search on the Central Idea
3. In groups, demonstrate your understanding of
the central idea from information you find on
Spezify.
17. Geographical features impact
the development of settlements
Lines of inquiry:
? Why are there so many volcanoes in Indonesia?
? How do volcanoes build and destroy the
environment?
? Why would anyone want to live near a
volcano?
18. As you are going through the process think about:
? What research skills you are using.
? How this web tool promotes critical thinking.
? How you are travelling through an inquiry
cycle.
21. Reflection
? What research skills are you using.
? How this web tool is promotes critical thinking.
? How you are travelling through a cycle of
inquiry
22. How can web tools be used to
encourage critical thinking?
Editor's Notes
Intro video- use if time
Use the continuum
Pairs ¨C question on the wall A3
Ppts in pairs turn and talk- feedback
Refer to the what inquiry looks like cycle poster
Show pictures form spezify
Show speizify
Turn and talk about your ideas & question dice