FS2U2 Inquiry Cycle Ideas

1. Finding Out

1.1. Read stories about good friends/bad friends, making friends - discuss good choices/bad choices

1.2. Examine pictures of friends - What can you see? Discuss

1.3. Collecting data from others - ask parents, teachers, older children, siblings - Who is your friend? What makes them a good friend? What do you enjoy doing together?

1.4. Adding photos of students helping each other - with speech bubbles of how to be good friends

1.5. Helping, sharing, comforting, including, kindness

1.6. Make something for your friend - friendship bracelet, crown, cards, pictures, etc.

1.7. Show and tell about a photo of them and their friends

2. Sorting Out

2.1. Friend Trees

2.2. Guess Who - description of friends

2.3. Sorting of pictures of good/bad ways to be a friends

2.4. Photographs of good friends and caption/annotate them

2.5. Posters - to be displayed in communal areas ways to be a good friend/play with your friends/help your friends

3. Taking Action

3.1. Making new friends - RAK Academy/Skype class in another country

3.2. Children show in their actions and activities with classmates and peers what they have learnt from this unit

4. Making Conclusions

4.1. Y Chart - What do good friends look like, feel like, sound like - reexamine and see how their thoughts/ideas changed

5. Going Further

5.1. Posters - to be displayed in communal areas ways to be a good friend/play with your friends/help your friends

5.2. Visual version of essential agreement - make into a book

6. Tuning In

6.1. Y Chart - What do good friends look like, feel like, sound like

6.2. Puppet show about friendship

6.3. Photos in breakout area of friendship and students working together