Summary
The kids all saw the same strange event and all describe it differently. Instead of arguing about who is right, they figure out that each of them was standing somewhere else. A tidy three minutes on perspective-taking that transfers straight to playground disagreements.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Three quick questions to run after the short.
- Why did each character describe the same event differently?
- How did they figure out what really happened?
- When have you and a friend remembered something differently?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: point of view, perspective, disagree.
Try it: Draw the same classroom object from two different seats and compare the drawings.