Inquiry in the key concept “Form”
Objective:
What does “Form” Mean?
Objectives: Language Arts: Story Elements
* Deepen the students’ understanding of the
form concept and make connection to language
arts
* Identify the story elements
Engage:
Bring in a toy or an object that attracts the
students’ attention. Ask them to tell you
how it looks like? Create a mind map as
they describe it, then tell the students that
the form of something is how it looks like.
Investigate / Activate:
Tell the students that they will play a carousel game,
they will go around 5 stations, where they will find a
focus card/picture, they will have only 30 seconds at
each station and they will have to write as many words
as they can to describe each picture, they can’t repeat a
word that was already used by the previous group
Reflection:
What do you
understand about the
concept “Form”?
Engage:
Read (Goldilocks and the Three Bears) or
any other story of your choice. Ask the
students if they can tell you how to
describe the “FORM” of the story.
Investigate / Activate:
Reflection:
Ask the students to choose a story, and in a group,
identify the story elements
Post one new thing
you learned about
the “Form” concept
to the form poster
Differentiation:
 Write about the story elements
 Sequence pictures and write simple words or a
sentence
Literacy Concepts: Story elements
Tell the students that you can use the story
elements to understand how the author
organized the story
Objectives: Language Arts: Characters
Engage:
* Deepen the students’ understanding of the
form concept and make connection to language
arts
* Describe the character traits and feelings
Choose 2 characters from stories that the
students are familiar with. Create a big
poster of both characters (laminate if
possible, as they will be used frequently).
Literacy Concepts: Character traits
Ask the students if they can tell you how to
describe the “FORM” of the characters
Differentiation: describe the character using
 Simple words
 Sentences
Objective: Math:
Engage:
Tell the students that they inquired about
the form concept, and today, they will
inquire about the form concept in Math
Investigate / Activate:
Station 1: The form of the clock
Station 2: The form of an addition sentence
Station 3: Numbers in different forms (tens and ones,
ten frame, symbol, written)
* Deepen the students’ understanding of the
form concept and make connection to Math
Investigate / Activate:
Ask the student to create labels / sentences that
describe the characters and stick them around the
poster
You can introduce the word “adjective” here
Why is it important
to learn about the
key concept “form”?
Reflection:
Post one new thing
you learned about
the “Form” concept
to the form poster
Reflection:
Post one new thing
you learned about
the “Form” concept
to the form poster