ABSTRACT
Let’s take a look at two different third-grade classrooms. In Mrs. Shuttleworth’s classroom, the students are seated in groups and are discussing historical drawings from the Olympics in ancient Greece. As the students try to decipher what is going on in the drawings, the teacher moves around the room and checks in with each group’s conclusions. She asks one group what they notice about the clothing worn and another group what they think is going on in the arena. The students in Mrs. Shuttleworth’s classroom ask questions of each other and of the teacher. Instead of providing the answers, the teacher directs students to other resources in the room such as iPads, history textbooks, and other nonfiction texts to satisfy their curiosity.
