Unpacking Inquiry                    

If you have ever peeled an onion?  If you did, you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes. After peeling the onion,  students tried to make a connection with a book. We page a book, in almost the same way we peel the onion,  sometimes we cry, sometimes we laugh. 

Students had something to think about it. When you peel the onion it renews itself; when you chopped it brings tears. How is this related to the book?

Students also explored a variety of different artifacts such as typewriter, feather and ink, old and new books, iPads, audio story, puppets, and telephones. With some interesting provocation we were able to answer some of those questions:

 What do you know about these things?  How do we use them? and What could we make with them? 

Students slowly making a connection with the inquiry.