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Enquiry skills activity: What is learning?
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A teaching activity that will encourage pupils' enquiry, thinking and participation skills. Suitable for key stages 3 to 5.
Activity on 'What is learning?'
Written by Anne de A'Echevarria
This teaching resource is taken from the winner of the BESA Educational Resources Book Award 2007 - Thinking Through School.
The activity provides a brilliantly illustrated and written story featuring fictional characters Jaz and eLfi. This story describes the challenges and dilemmas of learning, and contains questions to encourge further thinking and enquiry. This resource is highly recommended to teachers for developing pupils' thinking skills.
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