Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Connecting Word Enquiries with Units of Enquiry

To connect with our unit of inquiry exploring migration, we enquired into the base word MIGR.

Using our online etymolgy dictionary:  http://www.etymonline.com/ , we found out the meaning of MIGR was 'to wander or to move place'

We brainstormed as many words as we could think of in English that had the base word MIGR in them.

We then thought about other languages we knew that also used the base word MIGR.  It was amazing how many other languages we knew of that also used it:




As we were still new to word enquiries and what a spelling matrix is, we used these steps on the Google slideshow to structure our enquiry afterwards:


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