Inquiry Project – Log #1

You will continue your research for your inquiry project. You are responsible for finding a variety of anecdotal
evidence (magazines, journals, websites, etc.) that support your inquiry question. You will need to keep a log of
BOTH your anecdotal evidence and your observational evidence (interaction with your buddy) along the way.
Once you are finished each log, you will post it to your blog.

What do YOU need to do?

1. You need to find TWO more pieces of evidence that support your inquiry question.
 Keep track of your sources – indicate the website, title, publication, etc. for each.
2. You will need to complete a summary of the evidence that you found for EACH source.
 Remember that you cannot simply copy and paste the information. You must summarize and
paraphrase the information into your own words. If there is a particular quote that you want to
use, you need to reference exactly where in the source you got it from and then summarize what
the quote means into your own words.
3. You need to include ONE piece of observational evidence about your buddy.
 Explain what you did with your buddy for each visit, what you observed about your buddy, and
how it relates to your inquiry question.

Inquiry Project Evidence Log

Inquiry Question:
Evidence #1 Resource
 Play is often a full body activity that helps them  Mead, S. (n.d.). How do children
develop skills they need later in life. learn through play?. Whitby
 These are not only for muscle development and School.
helping fine-tune their motor skills, but this helps https://www.whitbyschool/org/
build their mental and emotional muscles as they passionforlearning/how-do-
create things with a system of rules that govern children-learn-through-play
terms of play.
 This can help children build social skills and
helps them becomes the kind of adults who are
able to thrive in a range of professional and
personal environments.

 “We need to consider that young children learn in

quite different ways [than adults]. They learn by
comparing physical experiences, by interactions
with other people and their own feelings. And
they learn an enormous amount through their
 imagination…. Play is what pulls together the
logical and creative parts of the brain.” -
Professor Doris Fromberg, Director of Early
Childhood Teacher Education at Hofstra
University.

Evidence #2
 Children show their ability for exploration,
imagination and decision making thorugh play.
 Even though play is frequently referred to as
“chidlren’s work” children find great joy in it.
 The type of play they perform change as children
grow from infancy to puberty and the reasons
behind them change as well.
Resource
 StartingBlocks_. (2022, July
27). The importance of play in
children’s learning and
development. Starting Blocks.
https://www.startingblocks.gov.a
u/other-resources/factsheets/the-
importance-of-play-in-children-s-
learning-and-development

Inquiry Project Observational Log

Visit Summary of Interaction
Sphero Visit
 What we did at this visit was learn how to connect our spheros to our
phones. Once we got the spheros connected to the phone, we were able to
move them around, change the color and change the speed of them. Our
phones were used as a controller for the sphero.
 What I observed from this visit, was that my buddy was very interested
in the sphero. She was very fascinated in how it moved around and how
the speed of it would affect the amount of control you had on the sphero.
 This interaction connects with my question of how does play connect
with a young child’s learning because not only was she playing with the
sphero, but she was also learning how the speed affects the amount of
control you had.
 Little did she know that as she was playing with the sphero and having
fun, she was learning things as well.