Gathering Prior Knowledge
• Provide opportunities and support for learners to engage with, practise and apply learning to different contexts and make connections with prior learning.
When beginning a new topic, one of the ways I determine what children know and what prior knowledge we have as a collective, is through using Padlet. This gives children a space for organising ideas, sharing what they know and also sparking memory of previously learned information. It is a safe format for them to use as they can have ideas with or without their name.
Here is an example of a Padlet we used for Matariki:
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