Here is a picture of my dad. 💕
While I was away, I missed doing our mini-inquiry about Columbus on Columbus Day. I figured better late than never! It's a great introduction to all the stages of inquiry. We move through all the stages in one day during a mini-inquiry.
We started our mini-inquiry in the Immersion Stage by studying the following painting.
First we shared what we saw and what we noticed about the painting, which led to many inferences about what was happening and why.
After our discussion, we grabbed magnifying glasses to look more closely, and too time to draw and write about our thinking, starting our Investigation Stage.
We came up with lots of questions that we answered by doing research with PebbleGo and BrainPop, Jr.
We got together and shared some answers to some of our questions during our Coalescing Stage.
We learned that he didn't give up his dream to explore, even after some kings told him he couldn't do it. We also learned that he made a mistake...he didn't realize that there were big chunks of land between where he left from Spain and where he thought he would land in Asia, so he ended up bumping into the Bahamas, thinking it was the Indies (China and India)!
We learned that when he landed, he claimed the land for Spain--but Room 408 thought that was unfair, since there were already native people living there in North and South America! We also learned that unfortunately Columbus made some bad choices and enslaved some of the native people.
We decided to Go Public by creating Columbus projects to show our learning and give us a way to teach others.
Watch this video to see the rest of our projects:
We ended our mini-inquiry by adding a poem about the history of Columbus Day to our Poetry Notebooks.
What do you think about Columbus?
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