Sharing The Planet

This week marked the beginning of our third unit of inquiry for the year.

We started off by reminding ourselves what a unit of inquiry is and how we know what we are focusing on.

Transdiscplinary Theme: 

The PYP has six transdisciplinary themes that are taught each year. These themes have been selected due to their global significants and read world application. The themes provide opportunity for the development of knowledge, concepts and skills.

Sharing The Planet

An inquiry into the rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within a between them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.

Central Idea:

Each unit of inquiry has a central idea. The central idea is to support students' understanding of the transdisciplinary theme, and challenges and extends what the students already know. The central idea is engaging, relevant, challenging and significant.

Central Idea: By developing an awareness of urban environments, we can understand and modify the way we live within it. 

Lines of Inquiry: 

Each unit will have generally have three lines of inquiry. These are to clarify the central idea and define the scope of the inquiry. They help give focus to the inquiry and deepen students' understanding.

Lines of Inquiry: 

• Characteristics of an urban environment
• The responsibility we have in sharing our environment
• The ways we can modify our environment 

Concepts: 

The key and related concepts form a powerful curriculum component that drives the teacher- and/or student-constructed inquiries The key concepts, also expressed as key questions, help teachers and students to consider ways of thinking and learning about the world, and act as a provocation to extend and deepen student inquiries. They help teachers and students to consider ways of thinking and learning about the world, and act as a provocation to extend and deepen student inquiries.

Key Concepts:

Change

Responsibility

Function

Related Concepts:

Expansion 

Roles

To begin our unit with spent time unpacking the key vocabulary of the unit. 

References: 

International School of Paris

http://www.isparis.edu/page.cfm?p=304

IBO - Making the PYP Happen 2009