Yesterday we continued our expeditionary learning on evacuation where we built on the knowledge we already had. We imagined we were a parent of two small children living in London’s docklands. We had to decide whether or not to evacuate our children. We considered the factor cards in front of us, reading them aloud with our partner. If we thought the factor card was a reason for evacuation we moved our counter forward on our board. If we thought it was against evacuation we moved it backwards. After doing this, we reviewed the cards again, this time ranking the cards by how important they are to us. We then explained our decision using the sentence starter, “If I were a parent, I would/would not not evacuate my children because… We worked really well in mini-crews, discussing our thoughts and ideas together.
