As part of our Sky Science inquiry students in Rooms 17 and 18 have been reading The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery. As a child, the main character in the story draws an image of a Boa Constructor who swallowed an elephant but is frustrated by adults' inability to see what he has actually drawn. "Whenever I encountered a grown-up who seemed to me at all enlightened, I would experiment on him with my drawing Number One...I wanted to see if he really understood anything. But he would always answer, 'its a hat'. We decided to challenge the author's findings by surveying students from Kindergarten to Grade 6 as well as adults. The findings were very diverse! Students decided that whether or not someone saw what was right in front of them or not depended in fact less on their age and more on their imagination, creativity and ability to think outside the box.
What do you YOU see?
