You know that feeling when you're explaining something important and you can see your students' minds wandering?
You're covering the curriculum, but they're not really learning.
Here's what happens when you use this toolkit: You pick any upcoming unit - fractions, the water cycle, American Revolution, Colonisation, whatever's next on your scope and sequence.
You spend 15 minutes using this planning template and suddenly you have students asking questions like "Why do we need fractions anyway?" and "What would happen if there was no rain for a year?" - and suddenly you have a clear roadmap to explore those questions together.
Teaching the Water Cycle in Year 2 can be so boring. Cloud types, weather patterns, measuring rainfall - it's easy for kids to zone out.
The Curiosity Toolkit, is the exact system that I've used to plan integrated units. Instead of making cotton wool clouds and just filling in a water cycle diagram, we started with a question. "Is the water we drink today the same water the dinosaurs drank?"
This sparked an investigation into biome experiments, why rivers are brown and not blue, water conservation, water pollution and of course hands-on demonstrations of their knowledge by building models, dioramas and ecosystems in bottles!
We measured rain, recited poems, read stories and were able to demonstrate using loose parts how water got to our homes!
Same content. Same curriculum standards. But instead of glazed eyes, children were coming in early to check their weather measurements.
And the best part?
I didn't have to create anything from scratch - I just learned to ask better questions and think holistically across the curriculum instead of the usual planning in silo approach.
This isn't a collection of random activities. It's a complete framework that works with any subject, any grade level, and any curriculum.
A Planning Framework
Ready-to-use-tools
Bonus Planning Supports
Plus Ongoing Support
All designed to fit right into your existing lessons - no overhaul needed.
You don't have to. This framework works with lessons you already teach. The template will transform an entire week of learning. You're not adding work - you're changing your starting point.
This works with any curriculum. You're still teaching fractions (or rocks, or American history) - you're just starting with student curiosity instead of page one of the textbook. Standards get covered, but through genuine inquiry.
That's exactly what the question bank is for. You don't need to be the "Pinterest teacher" with perfect bulletin boards. You just need to follow the framework and watch what happens.
Perfect! That's where real learning happens. Those "I don't know" moments can be turned into research opportunities, PLUS you can easily get help in the community when you need it.
Inquiry-based learning actually creates more focus, not less. When students care about finding answers, classroom management becomes easier, not harder.
“Edwina’s lesson plans are so well thought out and simple to follow. I love that she focuses on hands on learning and uses alternatives to worksheets. I also love how all the curriculum is linked so I don’t have to think about it as a homeschool Mum. Highly recommend Edwina and her curious approach to learning for children. Her many years in teaching is evident in her lesson plans and I think she is invaluable to education moving forward and a wealth of knowledge.”
"Edwina delivers very professional units of work that anyone from the most experienced, to the at home parent can deliver to their children with confidence and ease, knowing that their little learners will be engaged and covering the Australian curriculum content. I will definitely be purchasing more of these units and look forward to many more lessons to do with my children at home, and in the classroom."
"I found Edwina’s lesson plan to be an invaluable resource to support my classroom teaching. Everything I needed was at my fingertips. I loved the inquiry - based learning underpinning the activities, the clear links to the curriculum and the integration across multiple subject areas. The worksheets were attractive and the suggested activities were highly engaging for my students. I found them easy to prepare and set up, utilising resources that I already had on hand in my classroom. I thoroughly recommend Edwina’s lesson plans for any educator wanting to inject some more zest into their teaching."
Your students are curious about everything outside your classroom - video games, what their friends are doing, why the sky is blue, how rainbows are formed.
Curious kids have become bored in environments that no longer stimulate them... for lots of reasons.
You became a teacher to make a difference, to see that spark of understanding in their eyes.
This toolkit gives you the framework to make that happen consistently, even on days when you don't feel up to it.
The difference between a classroom where learning feels like work and one where learning feels like discovery.
It starts with the questions you ask.
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I believe that we have a responsibility to ignite children's natural curiosity and their innate love for learning, through inquiry based learning and teaching.
By inspiring children to be curious through our own example, and using curiosity inspiring strategies, we can, and must create a future where young people are curious, have inquiring minds, question, create and think critically.
We can do this if we're brave and determined to teach with children at the centre, not curriculum, or ideology.
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