Today in class we discussed inquiry based learning from chapter one of Jeffery Wilhelm's book Engaging Readers and Writers with Inquiry. Jen Brady gave a lesson over the chapter in which we read the poem "Pink" by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. The poem asks what would happen if people changed colors based on their food. We freewrote about this question in class.
I think we that we would be the colors of grains because a lot of people (in the US at least) eat a lot of carbs. I wonder if we would be able to tell where people are from by their color. Would we stay the color of what we ate most or change throughout the day? Would kids be different from adults because they tend to eat more junk food? What about foods that are more than one color? Would becoming food-colored eliminate discrimination based on race?
I think we that we would be the colors of grains because a lot of people (in the US at least) eat a lot of carbs. I wonder if we would be able to tell where people are from by their color. Would we stay the color of what we ate most or change throughout the day? Would kids be different from adults because they tend to eat more junk food? What about foods that are more than one color? Would becoming food-colored eliminate discrimination based on race?