This document outlines the "See, Think, Wonder" thinking routine adapted from Ron Ritchhart's book. It prompts the reader to first describe what they see in an image, then think about what it makes them infer, and finally wonder about information that is missing or they want to know. It then provides context about the painting "Arrival of Burke, Wills and King at the deserted camp at Cooper's Creek" which depicts members of the Burke and Wills expedition returning to find their supply camp deserted after just missing the party that had waited for them for 18 weeks.

1. See, Think, Wonder
A thinking routine adapted from Ron
Ritchhart’s Making Thinking Visible
book and seminar:

2. What do you see?
List or describe concretely what you can see in the picture.
Then, what does this make you think? What
can you infer or conjecture?
Next, what are you still wondering about?
What information is missing, or what would you like to know?

4. Again...What do you see?
List or describe concretely what you can see in the picture.

6. Has your thinking changed with the new visual
information? What do you think now?

9. John Longstaff, Arrival of Burke, Wills and
King at the deserted camp at Cooper's
Creek, Sunday evening, 21 April 1861, oil on
canvas, 1907, National Gallery of Victoria
Burke and Wills expedition
This was an Australian expedition in 1860-
61, exploring inland from Melbourne in the
South to the Northern Shore, a distance of
roughly 2,000 miles.
The painting depicts the return of part of the
expedition party – 9 hours too late after 18 weeks
away.
Burke had asked the depôt party to remain at
the camp for 13 weeks. The party actually waited
for 18 weeks and was running low on supplies.
When they finally left, they buried some
provisions in case Burke did return, and blazed
(cut or carved) a message on a tree to mark the
spot.
Brahe left the depôt on Cooper Creek on
Sunday, 21 April 1861. Burke, Wills and King
returned that evening. Finding the camp
deserted, they dug up the cache of supplies, and
a letter explaining that the party had given up
waiting and had left only that morning. Beam had
missed them by only nine hours.
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ongstaff_-
_Arrival_of_Burke,_Wills_and_King,_1861.jpg