How We Organize Ourselves is our next unit for Term 2.
The transdisciplinary theme of our inquiry focuses on the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities.
Central idea: Communities function more effectively when rules and routines are shared with all members.
The lines of inquiry that define the scope of investigations into our central idea are the following:
Function - Different systems or organizations that we use personally.
Causation - Various communities we belong to.
Responsibility - Purpose of rules and routines.
We started our unit with some provocations. I spread out a couple of things on the floor, and they notice the change in the classroom. One student reacted right away by trying to clean up and putting them back where they belonged. After clearing up the mess, the students then organized their backpacks.
Attached here is the video, so please have a look.
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The students are organizing their backpacks. |
The next thing we did was to explore and learn about the community helpers.
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Students are channeling their artistic side. We create future PAINTERS. |
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| Yuno pretending to be a doctor. |
In the video below, Akemi is pretending to be a teacher.
We get to play dress up for a week where students come to school wearing any community helper's costume.
We also invited the parents to come and talk about their job.
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| Andre's Daddy is a pitcher in one of the baseball teams here in Osaka. |
We capped our unit with a field trip at Kids Plaza, where students had so much fun.
