Example of How an Pathway May Emerge
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Adult Visions of Possible Learning Pathways |
Children's Suggestions and Ideas from Talks with Them |
"Provocations" Problems to Solve When Keeping Ducks Happy | Children's Proposed Solutions | Companion Midlevel Mental Abilities that Could Be Added by Teacher |
| Investigate various kinds of feet (webbed hoofs, claws, toes) and their purposes | Find out what ducks do | Take ducklings swimming: What can we use for a pool? |
Dish pan Galvanized tub
Children's pool Dig hole, fill with water |
Matching
Get out Spring lotto game made of "Easter" stickers of ducks, chickens, etc. |
| Decide who gets to feed ducks next and who gets to care for them on weekends | ||||
| Make more adequate housing for ducklings |
How can ducks get in and out of pool?
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Make them a ramp
Build stairs from blocks Lift them ourselves (but we have to catch them first!) |
Grouping Compare how ducklings and gerbils are the same and how they're different | |
| Caring for ducklings-watching how they grow and comparing growth rate with that of baby gerbils |
Make the ducks happy:
find their mothers take them swimming feed them stuff they really like talk duck- talk to them let them play outside make them a shower |
Common Relations
Pair different pictures of feet with animals (ducks and others) they belong to |
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Field Trips:
to farm to see other ducks to store for food to taxidermist to see stuffed ducks |
How can we fill the pool or tub- hose is too short? |
Add pipes on to end of hose
Use bucket Squirt hose very hard Move pool |
Temporal Ordering
Take pictures of ducklings as they grow and gerbils as they grow,arrange in order of development |
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| Do sinking/floating experiments | Could we make a shower for them? |
Hold watering can up and sprinkle ducks
Tie hose to top of slide Use pipes, screw on flexible dish rinsing hose from kitchen on pipe's end Squirt hose |
Graduated (seriated)Ordering Measure height of ducklings as they grow
Make graph comparing growth rates with growth of gerbils |