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All AboutA Curiosity Guide

What do you know about curiosity? In this guide, you'll learn about curiosity's nature, its causes, how to coax it out of students, and how you might accidentally be destroying it.

Featured Articles

How To Pique Curiosity

In part one of this curiosity series, we explore the connection between curiosity, anticipation, and dopamine and discover why we remember things better when we are allowed to wonder.

Other A Curiosity Guide Articles

Curiosity Skill: Encouraging Students to Ask Other Students

If you want to make a massive change in the culture of your classroom, move from teachers asking students all of the questions to students asking each other questions!

Running A Curiosity Project

Merlin Mann stated that employees’ motivation increases when they get to “build a robot” once in a while. That is, do something creative beyond regular work. Can we do this at school? Offices have “casual Fridays,” can we have “curiosity Fridays?”

Experiment-Based Curiosity Project

This article is a companion piece to an earlier article about running curiosity-based research projects. This particular piece focuses on experiment-based research rather than “look it up in a book” research. Developing Experimental Question An experiment needs a hypothesis. Before developing their hypothesis, students will need a question to answer. Some will already have a […]

Curiosity 6: Recipes for Curiosity

As we wrap up our curiosity guide, I share three recipes to help you cook up curiosity in your classroom.

Curiosity 5: Curiosity Is Slow

We’ve been digging into curiosity, and now we come to curiosity’s big downside: it’s slow. Let’s look at how films take their time to establish an audience’s interest before revealing the real conflict.

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