Learning about asking questions

Today Ms Donnell asked us, "What makes a good learner?"
Someone said, "Listening." Someone said, "Looking."
That was a really good start.
Someone said, "Lips closed." Someone else said, "Sitting quietly."
"Mmmm," said Ms Donnell. "We certainly need to do that to do good sitting at school, but will that help you learn well when you're playing a sport, like rugby?"
Well, we went on talking for a bit before Ms Donnell told us about asking questions.
That is so important that one time, Room 2 children made it a class rule: Ask lots of questions and be curious.
So today, we've been practicing making questions about the things we wanted to know more about for transportation.
If you click on the picture, it will take you to our voice thread and you can see the questions we thought of.

What is food?

To answer this question we could: go on the internet, look in a dictionary, find some food, ask an expert, ask our parents, talk about it together, ask other people in the school.
This is what we found when we used Google and searched :"What is food?"

• any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
• any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment; "food and drink"
• anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
  

Uh oh! That gave us some more questions. What is a "substance"? What does metabolized mean? What is "nourishment"? So many big words.

Grifin said, "But Ms Donnell, I know the answer. It's a billion atoms, 'cos everything is made out of atoms."
Ms Donnell said, "My goodness, Grifin. Now you're making me think of more questions. Let's go and do some PMP while we think about this some more."
Tomorrow we'll try out some of the other ways we could find the answer to this question.