See-Think-Wonder: Motion
This is a quick see-think-wonder activity to stimulate students in accessing prior learning and maybe to prompt further inquiry
What do you see?
What Physics does it make you think about?
What does it make you wonder?
The See-Think-Wonder visible thinking routine is all about close observation, applying understanding, and the creative generation of inquiry questions. As such this activity isn't something that ought to be or could be assessed using the MYP Sciences criteria. I have found that the sorts of things that students often respond with are:
See: the skier is going downhill / is turning ('carving') / using edges of the skis / using their sticks to control their turn. Somewhat more randomly (but equally interesting!) - they're wearing thermal clothes / their ski goggles are reflective / their ski goggles cause light to be reflected as colours
Think: gravitational force / friction / centripetal force / turning in a circle / layers of insulation / their goggles are like a prism (and once a student remarked that they thought the goggles looked like soap on water!)
Wonder: how do different kinds of snow affect the friction on the skis? How does the angle of the skis affect the turn the skier makes? Why are their goggles like that? What if they were wearing a silver coat, would that be better or worse at keeping them warm?