The teaching Channel | july 2019

By Chris Orchard, Andrew Minigan and Sarah Westbrook

Imagine starting your first unit of the year not with what students know, but with what they wonder. What would your students ask?

In classrooms across the country and in different corners of the world, teachers are finding ways to drive learning with questions like these, asked by real-life students:

• What would happen to the tides if we woke up one morning and the moon disappeared?
• How does the sun’s power get into you?
• If everyone were the same, would we still have stereotypes?
• Is the American Dream a little less true for some people?
• Why can’t you divide by zero?

What would teaching and learning look like if every student in class was asking questions like these? What else might then be possible?

Read the full article at the learning channel

Note: This article introduced a six-part blog series written by teachers from around the United States, which I helped edit (while maintaining the voice and writing style of each educator). The Teaching Channel subsequently went through an organizational change and site-architecture change. That’s why the dateline on teachingchannel.com is from 2021.