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Today in workshop the students had to brainstorm and think of ‘what ifs’ to scenarios. I found it interesting to see and read the responses of the individual students. Somehow, I was surprised by some of the responses. Some students were really able to imagine the true changes, implications, problems, and possibilities of these strange, “what ifs.” Other students had difficulties going beyond a smaller realm and world that they are used to. Many added humor, which I always appreciate. A few students changed up the questions provided, and gave their own thoughts.
They all seemed to enjoy the thinking process and a few decided to share their thoughts, on our classroom blog, on a topic of their own choice.
Please read and even add a comment below if you are in the mood to imagine and reflect on these scenarios.
What if cows could fly?
Wow, all I can say is that it would be good because farmers would only need to put out rain buckets to get milk. Which would be cool and cut down the work. It would kind of suck though, because birds would get scared and all of them would fly to the Arctic and freeze! That wouldn’t be good.
Tara Grade 5
What if cows gave cream soda instead of milk?
Well, in the words of my teacher, “My cereal would be all bubbly and I don’t like bubbly cereal! I am very hungry though, I haven’t ate my cereal. I want my cereal!!! I personally think it would be awesome! After all, cream soda is my favorite pop. Although, having that in my cereal every day would be gross.
Tara Grade 5
What if cows gave cream soda instead of milk?
If cows gave cream soda instead of milk then I would milk the cows on our farm all more often. Sometimes I would bring a bucket for myself so I wouldn’t have to spend a fortune on those two liter bottles of cream soda. I don’t know about you, but I think ninety nine cents is a bit much for a two liter bottles of pop .
Jesse Grade 5
What if we could talk to animals?
If I could talk to animals, animals like the kind of animals that are useful to humans, like horses,dogs, elephants,and other stuff, I could talk to. But there could be a problem if they talk because dogs bark a whole lot so imagine if they talk, but if you need advice for something you could always talk to an animal or one of your pets.
Trae Grade 5
What if all of the streets were rivers, what would be different?
Here are all of my quick, random, brainstorming thoughts on this subject:
There would be no cars. We would have to use boats. There could be more floods. It would be harder to get somewhere. There would be lots of boat accidents: such as flips, sinking boats and torn apart boats. More people could drown. There would be increased shark attacks. Also, there would be more space for the fish to live. Oh, we could swim and dive more often. It would be easier to get wet on your way to work. Less technology in your house, because the electricity issues with water. So, there would be more shockings and electrocutions. No more street hockey. More leak issues in our houses. Another issue to worry about is winter freezing. People would have to wait until the ice is completely frozen so they don’t break through. We might need to take some time off from work and school while it freezes. We could skate to places, but it would also be easier to slip and fall. More accidents too as people fall through the ice. So in the spring we would have to worry about lots and lots and lots of water, so lots of flooding. I think there would be less trees because there would be less soil to grown them. This could cause less trees for paper and building canoes and such. Less land animals and forests if the water got too out of hand. There would have to be new rules and laws to think about, such as: lights, technologies, licenses, safety, motor sizes and different pollutions. Wow, there would be tons too think about!
Kaylyn Grade 6
What if it rained cream soda instead of water?
This would be awesome because we could bring a cup outside instead of buying it, but you would still have to buy root beer, sprite or crush. I do not need those other pops because my favorite is cream soda.
Tai Grade 4
What if All Animals Could Talk in Our Language?
If animals could talk, including bugs, the world would be very noisy. I bet cats demanding everything, while fish would be polite. Bugs would be chattering to each other noisily, and dogs would welcome you home with a big hello. If your not careful you might make a lizard mad, but a snake would be very sneaky.
So do you really want them to talk to us?
Amanda Grade 6
What would happen if cows gave root beer instead of milk?
Farmer Brown went to the barn. He grabbed a pail and a stool. He was going to milk Bessy his cow. He sat on the stool and positioned the pail under Bessy. He started to milk her…But insted of milk, it was……It was Root Beer!
What would you think if you were Farmer Brown? What would you do? You could start a root beer factory.
Would it be good if that happened? Let’s find out.
GOOD
- We would never run out of root beer
- We could earn money by selling root beer
BAD
- It would mess up Mrs. Paterson’s cereal
- We would lack the proper amount of calcium
- There would be too much root beer
- Most of the kids in the world wold be obese at the age of 12
I think we have narrowed it down. It WOULD NOT be good. It’s a good thing this has not happened……………………………YET!
What would happen if there was no more TV?
It would be bad because you wouldn’t see any funny, silly and really good movies .
_ The good thing about it is that you wouldn’t see inappropriate movies.
_ You wouldn’t even play wii. Who couldn’t live without wii.
_ What would you do with your time ?
_ You wouldn’t learn how to play tennis, boxing, also golf you would atcually have to some real sports.
_ You could go walking with your dog and also play with him.
Heather Grade 4
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