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Prompts & Provocations

Whether you are looking at student inquiry, maker challenges, design projects, impact projects, genius hour, 20% time or anything similar, this page has lots of resources to support you. Where possible inquiries should arise from authentic contexts and student questions. Some of the resources on this page can be used as prompts or provocations to start students questioning.
See also Plan & Assess.
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Provocations and Ideas
The new MoE Pūtātara​ site "supports schools and teachers to develop learning opportunities that are place-based, inquiry-led, and focused on participation for change.

Maker Challenges - a series of challenges, a new one each month. Students create their solution then describe it on Flipgrid. 
​See the Inquiry Examples page for ideas.
More on student agency and ownership of inquiry.

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More resources:
Design Thinking resources
​Many of these picture books and these STEM/STEAM picture books can prompt inquiry questions.
Genius Hour Makerspace
BreakoutEdu​​ 
- like an escape room but in the classroom. Can be done completely digitally.
Instructables
 - instructions for making a wide variety of crafts
Wonderopolis

Many of these Story Starters can also be used to stimulate questions and problems to solve.
8 Inquiry-based learning activities.

Groups
Inquiring Mind - my student inquiry fb group
Genius Hour/20% Time NZ Facebook group
Maker Projects and Design Challenges - John Spencer's video channel has loads of starter ideas.
Search for problem-solving videos or other motivational videos to prompt inquiry questions. 
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  • Home
  • What is Inquiry?
    • Authenticity
    • Agency & Ownership
  • Inquiry Levels
    • Inquiry Models
  • Why Inquiry?
  • Questioning
  • Plan & Assess
    • Provocations >
      • Sophisticated Picture Books
  • Examples
    • New Zealand Examples
    • Bring Back the Birds
    • Classroom Pet Inquiry
    • Financial Literacy
    • Ki-o-rahi Inquiry
    • Abu Dhabi Inquiry
  • Resources