Inquiry: Why Should We Care for Ourselves and Our Surroundings?

Easing into the homeschool format now- this is our first week of doing full on homeschooling so our inquiry is a bit, well, lame to start! Mom and dad wanted us to learn why we needed to include self-care and house cleaning in our homeschool schedule, so they made the first inquiry about it.

We ended up coming up with some pretty interesting questions, and questions that might even be inquiries later on.

We did quite a bit of research- Jovie focusing in on care for our surroundings, including recycling and care for the earth; Zekiah zoning in on more technical details of care for ourselves (even finding out the names of the different layers of our teeth!).

No projects connected with this inquiry- though we are SO looking forward to doing more project-based learning in the next week (when we get to learn about endangered animals- a passion for both of us!).

Here is a look at what the inquiry ended us at the end of the week:



BIG TAKEAWAYS THIS INQUIRY

In the end we basically found out that not caring for ourselves or our surroundings leads to death, which is kind of a big deal. We also had great questions about the law, different kinds of laws, and government oversight for individual actions. It was a great discussion that needs more attention- maybe in another inquiry 😏

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