Singapore History

Both Melvin and Ellie tasked their Secondary 1 History classes with posting questions on Chapter 3 and 4 and then choosing the inquiry question for their classes. These are the inquiry questions the classes worked on.

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• Why weren’t the people in Singapore being caught when they smoked opium in the 19th to early 20th century?
• Was life tougher during the 19th and early 20th century or was life tougher during WWII?
• 1C - Was life tough under British rule?
• Was Singapore an attractive option for the poorer immigrants to come during the 19th century? Why?
• Why did Singapore become a prosperous and busy port in the 1900s?

Scientific Inquiry

Students were interested in the inquiry question: Do gummy bears float in water?

Joyce first allowed students to make their conjectures and support it with reasons. Subsequently, some gummy bears were observed to float while others sank, leading to students’ ideas coming thick and fast about the structure, components and weight of the gummy bear as reasons to justify their observations.

Menstruation

 

Instead of menstruating every month, why is the uterine lining (endometrium) not sustained continuously throughout the life of a woman from puberty to menopause?

The theory formulated by Crystal, the teacher, is that it would require a lot of energy to sustain the endometrium continuously, and from an evolutionary point of view, this is not very efficient for the body.

In order to guide students towards an explanation for this question, Crystal provided guiding questions: Why do women undergo menstruation? What is the uterine lining used for? What causes the uterine lining to grow and thicken? Why can the uterus be a good environment for bacteria to grow? How can it affect the woman when microbes grow in the uterus?

Here is the KF view generated: