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Why Do We Feel This?

1. What is the main feeling you get from this?
2. What specific things give this feeling?
3. How could do this to achieve another feeling?

Owls

Two orphaned baby burrowing owls, nicknamed Linford and Christie, have moved into the home of their keeper Jimmy Robinson. The owlets were hatched in an incubator at Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire, and are now being hand-reared by Jimmy.See – Think – Wonder

 

What do you see (beyond the owls – “see” as in “what kind of life do you imagine this person leads”).

What does it make you think about for your own life?

What does it make you wonder about how you could live each day?

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Look To Learn Prompts

 

Look To Learn #2

Does everything have a destiny

See-Think-Wonder

1. What do you see?
2. What do you think is going on?
3. What does it make you wonder?

thedailyfeed:

This unlikely friendship is grrrreat! According to gamekeeper Ashley Gombert, a border collie named Solo and an 8-month-old tiger have become inseparable at a game preserve in South Africa.

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Look to Learns (L2Ls) for K-12

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin

Below are a few Look to Learn activities that might suit the students / courses identified below.  You do not have to limit yourself to those at your Grade Level / KLA, but these groupings are meant to save you time as you trial this approach for promoting Visible Thinking.

Early Years

• Dreaming puppy (and stixy)
• Caine’s Arcade
• The Upside-down house
• Flight of the Hummingbird
• Simple Machines

Upper Primary

• Miniature Earth
• Fun Theory (Piano Stairs)
• Text speak
• Stunt bicyclist

Performing Arts

• Dance: Taptronic (Dubstep and Irish dance)
• Drama: “Aussie” commercial
• Visual Arts: New Yorker Cartoon – late for a date!
• Visual Arts: staged photograph – Gregory Crewdson
• Music: Mozart aged 11
• Music: Fun Theory (Piano Stairs)
• Visual Arts: Anime Pendulum

English / Humanities

• Economics: Big Mac is More than a Meal
• Public speaking / communication: Minister Bill Shorten
• Poetic imagery: the animated eye
• Geography / history: Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi
• Geography / history: The Shape of Europe
• History: Barrack Obama & Rosa Parks
• History / English: The British Schindler
• English / history: Tibetan protest

Science / Maths / Technology / PDH

• PDHPE / Food Tech: The Crown Crust Burger Pizza
• PDHPE: Stunt bicyclist
• Design & Tech: Balcony Swimming Pools
• Design & Technology: Sustainable Treehouse
• Science / Biology: Leaf Camouflage
• Maths: Pi visualised
• Maths / biology: The patterns in nature

Look To Learn Link #1

stairs for fun?

Toms Archives for Look To Learn

Fields

See-Think-Wonder

1. What do you see?
2. What do you think is going on?
3. What does it make you wonder?

Where do patterns come from?

See-Think-Wonder

1. What do you see?
2. What do you think is going on?
3. What does it make you wonder?

newshour:

The Veins of a Leaf: Revealing Nature’s Mathematical System

Time lapse of how nutrients flow from the vascular networks of a leaf  to the plant’s cells.

 

Because why?

The 5 W’s & H

As a class or group answer the questions as insightfully as you can.

• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
• How?

guardian:

Source: YouTube/FlippyCat

The Canadian YouTube user FlippyCat spends eight days building 60 large squares, each containing 990 dominoes, only to send them crashing down in a blaze of colour and noise. Over the 65 hours it takes to build he changes his T-shirt to match the blocks. It only takes 12 seconds to knock all of them down

Okay then…