Learning job: Link a chosen design purpose to one bounded observation, or preserve an unperformed check plan.
Have ready: Own available work or a new plan, adult-approved surface/action/operator and an agreed stop. No repeated-trial target.
Say to the child: What do you want to find out? You can try one suitable action or keep a check plan. What really happened?
- Invite one question tied to the own job: is the chosen mark visible from the agreed position, does the sheet stand in this arrangement, or can it be placed flat? Keep the exact question.
- Agree a suitable action, operator and stopping point. Do not require touching, an audience or another person’s cooperation.
- Use one route and keep what actually happens or is faithfully reported. A proposed action keeps its result unknown.
- After capture, read C11’s one-event report and C12’s explicitly unperformed plan. An action with no result recorded is also possible; missing evidence is not automatic proof of no event.
- Separate a preference from a functional result. “I like the wide face” can stand on its own.
- Keep question, actor, conditions, actual/attributed observation and unknowns. If hoped and observed outcomes merge, teach that distinction with a different adult name-card account.
Choose one route:
- Try one locally suitable chosen display action and record only what is actually noticed.
- Direct an agreeing helper’s exact check and retain their offered report with attribution.
- Draw or tell an unperformed check and leave the result empty.
Look for / next teaching: A purpose-linked check and accurate event boundary. Next teach hope versus observation using an unrelated ordinary source.
More choices: C11/C12, H06, X06. Keep models after the first idea.
Read together:
You might ask whether your mark can be seen from your chosen place. If somebody actually checks, keep what they noticed and who acted. If nobody checks, keep the question. One result tells us about that event; it does not promise that every display will work.
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