Vehicles - Inquiry

For the start of our transport inquiry I went in to the $2 shop and got heaps of toy cars, trains, planes etc. I started by allowing students time to play and talk with each other about how they move etc. I removed myself from this time and just took notes about paths I want to pursue (vocab I want fed in and anything else I think would be beneficial). After students had time to explore we sat back and thought about something we may want to find out - so pleased with my kids they all came up with a question (some more complex than others but its a start).
I was away on Thursday so my principal was in the class and they went through and classified and justified about different vehicles.

Week 2 Monday:
We began a discussion around new and old cars. I found a great resource on sparkle box that has a new and old version of transport. I set children up into groups and they had to go away and decide if the transport was new or old and why.

Then as a class we discussed them. Students then had to come up with some features that were the same and some that were different.

Last term we had some vintage cars drive by our school so it was really awesome that students were using their prior knowledge from this event to help inform some of their decisions.

To end our inquiry we wrote a short story about our favourite vehicle that had to include a fact we had learnt. Children then made a picture to match their story.