26: Pause and Reflect
"Reflection is looking back so that the view looking forward is even clearer." In inquiry-based learning, reflection is an important step which allows the learners to deepen the learning process. It lets the learners pause and revisit the new knowledge, skills, or concepts that they have acquired throughout the unit, and how best they have learned them. Reflection is such a powerful tool because it allows us to get to know ourselves better, and it helps us navigate how we can learn more things in the future. As we close our unit on trash and the 3Rs this week, the kindergarteners had a chance to pause and reflect on what they have learned in their inquiry under the theme Sharing the planet . I asked the children: What is the best thing you learned from our unit? Y ichen I learned how to throw the trash in the trash can properly. If we don't throw trash properly, they might go to the ocean and hurt the fish. Kai I learned that we should stop polluting the ocean by throwi