Let’s Find Out About Project
Here's What To Do
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Help your child to engage in a simple project to find out more about a question they have, or a topic they are interested in learning about.
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Start by choosing a topic they’re interested in. Then, help your child to come up with some questions they want to answer about the topic.
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Brainstorm ways to answer the questions. For example:
- If your child has questions about a specific animal you can check out related books from the library and visit a location like a zoo that might have that animal
- If they want to know about different jobs or careers, they can interview neighbors with related professions
- If they want to learn about skyscrapers, they can visit skyscrapers if there are some nearby, and use blocks and other materials such as paper towel rolls to explore how to design and build their own.
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After, talk together about the questions you’ve answered together.
Put PEER Into Action
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Pause:
- Based on your child’s interests, help them to select a simple project or topic they’d like to learn more about.
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Engage:
- “What do you want to find out about?”
- “What questions should we ask?”
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Encourage:
- Suggest some questions your child can ask, then investigate to answer.
- “You said you wanted to learn about ___, so you could ask, “How do ___?”
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Reflect:
- “What new information did you learn?”
Not quite ready?
Help your child to brainstorm simple questions that can be investigated or researched more easily.
Ready for more?
Extend the project by encouraging your child to think of follow-up questions they’d like to ask based on the new knowledge they’ve learned.
As your child masters this skill...
They will ask complex questions.