Before you can start this quest, you need to choose a topic/subject that you are going to learn about!
Sometimes freedom to choose can be quite difficult. There are so many options that you have no idea where to start.
This is why we share a couple of ways to trigger your creative brain and curiousity. If you already have an idea about what you want to learn, you can go straight on to the next step. If you don't have an idea you will pick one of the following exercises and do them. Make sure to upload the task in Seesaw/Egodact.
1. Make a list of all the things that you are curious about.
You can set aside 20 minutes to do this and you are not allowed to stop writing during these 20 minutes.
Or you can walk around with this for 3 days, write down everything (on your phone for example) that you are curious about.
2. Make a mindmap of everything about your life.
Examples: Hobbies, Sports, Food, Holidays, Pets, Your family (and their jobs and hobbies), Friends, What do you watch most on TikTok/YouTube, other interests
3. Play an association game with a friend/classmate/coach.
Before you start you need to decide how many words you are going to write down (it needs to be more than 10, but less then 35). Get a piece of paper and a pen. One of you starts by writing down (and saying it out loud) a random word. For example: pizza. The other one writes down the first word that comes to mind when hearing the word pizza, for example: brick oven. Then the other one writes down the first word that comes to mind when hearing the word brick oven etc. You will continue until you have written down the amount of words that you decided on before starting.
After this you have so many different words, maybe one of them sparks your curiosity.
4. Use this website to generate random pictures:
https://www.generatormix.com/random-image-generator
Generate at least 20 pictures, copy the ones to a pages document that spark your curiosity.
Maybe after doing one of these tasks you already have a pretty good idea of what you want to research. If you don't have any ideas, some other students have come up with the following ideas:
Biology → Research certain internal human body parts
Art → What different art styles exist?
Technology → How does a computer work?
Language → Difference between English and Dutch proverbs.
Sports → Make your own football.
Self development → How to do a presentation?
How can you concentrate better?
Why do we procrastinate?
Culture and history -> What is the Irish revolution?
What were the events that led up to world war II?
What are the origin stories of different holidays?
Science -> How do insulated bottles work?
How does a plane stay in the air?
How did they invent lego?