ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on key questions in planning and starting from the child's interests. It explores the wider issues in taking the pedagogy into practice and ends with a case study to illustrate children's involvement in the planning process of creating a junkyard garden. Differentiation is often thought of as giving children a more difficult task or just moving them onto more difficult concepts, but it involves more than this. Starting with a blank sheet of paper or in a large planning book, take the children's suggestions for questions and record these in one colour on some sticky notes. Observations can then be added to a very basic overall plan, but new ideas generated from the children or problems encountered in the planning and implementation of the teddies' picnic can be added in a final colour to show the learning journey.
