Inquiry Cycle
Our year includes 6 units of inquiry. We use the inquiry cycle to construct meaning, knowledge, and understanding - building on, strengthening, and deepening their prior thinking. The units are inquiry-based, allowing students' wonderings, questions, and interests to be explored.
How can parents support their child through the inquiry process?As the proverb says, "It takes a village to raise a child," it also takes a community to educate a child. Children are naturally curious, therefore helping a child with the inquiry process means guiding them to construct meaning, understanding, and knowledge through their natural curiosities. Through this process, we can create life-long learners, problem-solvers, and critical thinkers!
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Who We Are: Human Body
Central Idea: Interacting body systems contribute to health.
Key Concepts: function, connection, systems, health
Lines of Inquiry:
Key Concepts: function, connection, systems, health
Lines of Inquiry:
- How the human body systems work
- The interconnectedness of body systems
- Impact of lifestyle choices on the body systems
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Sharing the Planet: Conflict Resolution
Central Idea: Understanding ourselves and accepting others' perspectives leads to peaceful solutions to conflict.
Key Concepts: causation, perspective, responsibility
Lines of Inquiry:
Key Concepts: causation, perspective, responsibility
Lines of Inquiry:
- causes of conflict
- conflict resolution and management
- living and working peacefully
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How We Express Ourselves: Traditional Tales
Central Idea: People have used stories to understand and explain the world around them.
Key Concepts: form, perspective
Lines of Inquiry:
Key Concepts: form, perspective
Lines of Inquiry:
- Traditional stories and what we learn from them
- Common elements that exist among stories
- Ways stories are expressed through the arts
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How the World Works: Changes in Matter
Central Idea: Exploring reversible and irreversible changes in matter can help us understand the nature of the scientific process.
Key Concepts: function, change, responsibility
Lines of Inquiry:
Key Concepts: function, change, responsibility
Lines of Inquiry:
- Conditions that cause reversible and irreversible changes in materials
- How societies take advantage of the properties of materials
- Impact of the retrieval, production and use of materials on the environment
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Where We Are In Place and Time: Significant People
Central Idea: The actions, discoveries and thinking of individuals have changed the world we live in.
Key Concepts: causation, change, reflection
Lines of Inquiry:
• Ways to find out about the past
• How society has changed as result of individuals’ action
• Reasons people have taken action
Key Concepts: causation, change, reflection
Lines of Inquiry:
• Ways to find out about the past
• How society has changed as result of individuals’ action
• Reasons people have taken action
Where We Are In Place and Time Action Menu
How We Organize Ourselves: City Systems
Central Idea: Systems and services of effective communities are planned to meet people’s needs.
Key Concepts: Function, connection, reflection
Lines of Inquiry:
Key Concepts: Function, connection, reflection
Lines of Inquiry:
- A city’s systems and services
- How these systems and services work together
- How effective systems can manage finite resources