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Programme of Inquiry 2010-2011

Social Studies Arts Language

Science

An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into:
Age Who we are Where we are in place How we express How the world works How we organize Sharing the planet
and time ourselves ourselves
An inquiry into the nature of An inquiry into orientation An inquiry into the ways An inquiry into the natural An inquiry into the An inquiry into the rights
the self; beliefs and values; in place and time; in which we discover and world and its laws; the interconnectedness of and responsibilities in the
personal, physical, mental, personal histories; homes express ideas, feelings, interaction between the human-made systems and struggle to share finite
social and spiritual health; and journeys; the nature, culture, beliefs natural world (physical communities; the resources with other
human relationships discoveries, explorations and values; the ways in and biological) and structure and function of people and with other
including families, friends, and migrations of which we reflect on, human societies; how organizations; societal living things; communities
communities, and cultures, humankind; the extend and enjoy our humans use their decision-making; and the relationships
rights and relationships between and creativity; our understanding of scientific economic activities and within and between them;
responsibilities; what it the interconnectedness of appreciation of the principles; the impact of their impact on humankind access to equal
means to be human. individuals and aesthetic. scientific and technological and the environment. opportunities; peace and
civilizations, from local advances on society and conflict resolution.
and global perspectives. on the environment.
Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea
Everyday I can learn about We use our "Hundred Light is all around us and We have the responsibility
who I am with and through Languages" to express behaves in many ways. to share our environment
others ourselves. for a peaceful world.
Key Concepts: form,
Key Concepts: change, Key Concepts: form, function Key Concepts:
connection reflection perspective, responsibility
Related Concepts: forms
Related Concepts: Related Concepts: of energy (light), Related Concepts:
identity, growth, creativity, diversity. behaviour, colour conflict, cooperation,
independence, review, revisiting communication, fairness
3-4 years
interdependence Lines of Inquiry
ELC 1
Lines of Inquiry • Natural and Lines of Inquiry
Lines of Inquiry • Different artificial light • Finding
• How I am growing media • How light strategies to
and changing • The process of behaves with resolve conflict
• Myself as part of a preparing for materials and • My choices and
group the assembly bodies actions affect
• Becoming • Performing to • Exploring others
independent share our darkness • Sharing
"Hundred resources
Languages".

Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea

4-5 years We need to understand and Change is inevitable and Stories can be told in We can create and use
ELC 2 love ourselves in order to affects our lives. many ways. systems that helps us to
love and understand other live harmoniously.
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people. Key Concepts: form, Key Concepts:
perspective function, change Key Concepts: function,
Key Concepts: form, causation
perspective, reflection Related Concepts: Related Concepts:
similarities, difference, listening, speaking, Related Concepts:
Related Concepts: discovery, opinion imagination, creativity systems, roles, impact,
identity, diversity, conflict, cooperation
relationships, Lines of Inquiry Lines of Inquiry
communication • Similarities and • Our favourite Lines of Inquiry
differences stories • Identifying a
Lines of Inquiry between past, • Retelling and need for a
• Social and present and recording of system
emotional future familiar stories • Possible
characteristics • Reasons for • Creating and solutions to the
• How we view change expressing our particular need
friendship • Feelings and own stories • The affect of the
• How we build emotions about system on the
lasting change community
relationships

Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea
We interpret our Personal journeys show People use a variety of Materials can be Communities function People have a
environment through our the way that people languages to manipulated to suit a more effectively when responsibility to share and
senses. change and can lead to communicate their ideas purpose. systems and routines are care for the environment.
new opportunities. and feelings. negotiated with all
Key Concepts: connection, Key Concepts: form, members. Key Concepts: function,
perspective Key Concepts: change, Key Concepts: form, change, causation connection, responsibility
reflection perspective Key Concepts: function,
Related Concepts: Related Concepts: responsibility, reflection Related Concepts:
systems (sensory) Related Concepts: Related Concepts: properties and uses of cooperation, roles,
growth, sequences, communication, materials, changes of Related Concepts: relationships, role, fairness
5-6 years Lines of Inquiry review, progress, evidence imagination state, liquids, solids communication,
Kindergarten • How our senses cooperation, conflict, Lines of Inquiry
Mathematics connect us to our Lines of Inquiry Lines of Inquiry Lines of Inquiry communities, systems • How people care
Literacy world • Important • Forms of • Properties of for the
ICT • How senses are events that lead communication materials Lines of Inquiry environment
connected to each to change • Possibilities • Changes in • What a • How people can
other • How I have with particular materials community is share resources
• How our senses changed over media • Causes of • Purpose of • Our
are linked to the year • Representing change in systems and responsibility
emotions • How I know I ideas and materials routines towards sharing
have changed feelings • Roles and the environment
responsibilities
• Reaching
agreement or
compromise

6-7 years Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea
Grade 1 Body systems work together Family history provides Writers can use their Forces act upon people Transportation systems People have an impact on
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to keep people alive. insight into personal imagination to entertain and objects get people from place to the environment.
identities. others and to explore place
Key Concepts: form, feelings. Key Concepts: form, Key Concepts: change,
function, connection Key Concepts: form, function, reflection Key Concepts: function, causation, responsibility
perspective, reflection Key Concepts: perspective
Related Concepts: function, connection Related Concepts: Related Concepts:
systems (digestive, nervous, Related Concepts: magnetism, mechanics Related Concepts: transformation,
respiratory) chronology, family, Related Concepts: transportation conservation, impact,
history, identity written language - Lines of Inquiry initiative
Lines of Inquiry writing • Types of forces Lines of Inquiry
• Types of body Lines of Inquiry • The effect of • Transport Lines of Inquiry
systems • My family Lines of Inquiry forces systems work • Natural
• Role of the body history • Imagination • Simple machines together environments
systems • Artifacts and • The writing • People select • How the local
• Connections traditions process one environment has
between body important to my • The effect that transportation changed
systems family writing has on system over • Human action
• How artifacts an audience another that benefits or
and traditions • Traveling from harms the local
are passed one place to environment
through another
generations
Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea
Leading a balanced lifestyle People are enriched by Stories can be Weather affects our lives Communication Human activities can
helps us to stay healthy. their own cultures and the constructed, told and technology connects challenge plant and animal
cultures they connect with interpreted in different Key Concepts: people and communities. survival.
Key Concepts: function, throughout their lives. ways. connection, function
responsibility, reflection Key Concepts: form, Key Concepts: causation,
Key Concepts: form, Key Concepts: Related Concepts: function, connection responsibility
Related Concepts: perspective function, perspective systems (water cycle,
balance, well being, choice, weather), seasons, Related Concepts: Related Concepts:
nutrition Related Concepts: Related Concepts: atmosphere, climate communication adaptation, animals,
similarities, differences, written communication; conservation, habitat,
Lines of Inquiry beliefs, predjudices plot character, voice Lines of Inquiry Lines of Inquiry plants
• Daily habits and • How weather • How different
7-8 years
routines (hygiene, Lines of Inquiry Lines of Inquiry affects living communication Lines of Inquiry
Grade 2
sleep, play, • What culture is • Stories told to things systems work • Ways in which
eating) • Similarities and explain the • The causes of • Why particular species are
• Balanced choices differences natural world weather communication adapted to their
• Consequences of between cultures • Traditional • The water cycle systems are habitat
choices • Cultural tales told from and how it works used • Food chains and
experiences that various points • How new food webs
affect us of view technology • Events that lead
• Roles that affects the way to
characters we communicate endangerment
play • How people can
help species to
survive
•
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Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea
Understanding different Maps allow people to We can express Structures can be Money is a human-made The environment is
ways of learning enables understand their place in ourselves creatively understood in terms of the system that helps value impacted by the
people to respond to their the world. through performance. forces that act upon them. goods and services. production of
own learning as well as consumables.
those of others. Key Concepts: function Key Concepts: form, Key Concepts: form, Key Concepts: form,
perspective, change function function, connection function, connection Key Concepts:
Key Concepts: form, connection, responsibility
function, reflection Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Related Concepts:
systems, subjectivity expression, structure, force, systems, origins, value Related Concepts:
Related Concepts: performance, ensemble transformation product cycle,
8-9 years Learning, cooperation, Lines of Inquiry: Lines of Inquiry: environmental impact,
Grade 3 education • How maps work Lines of Inquiry Lines of Inquiry: • The origins of sustainability, recycling
• What makes a • The different • There are money
good map kinds of different types of • Money as a Lines of Inquiry:
Lines of Inquiry: • How our performance forces human-made • How the
• Different ways of understanding of • What is • Forces are system environment is
learning the world has expressed something that • How money impacted by the
• How we learn best changed as a through act upon us works production of
• Learning result of maps performance • Our knowledge consumable
communities • How I can of forces impact • The
express myself our creation of responsibility of
through structures the consumer in
performance this cycle.
Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea:
Shared responsibility leads The history and geography The Media has the power Human survival is affected Communities function Organisms rely on one
to a safer environment. of a country shapes its to influence thinking and by the continual changing because of the structures another.
culture. behaviour. nature of the Earth. within them.
Key Concepts: form, Key Concepts: function,
responsibility Key Concepts: form, Key Concepts: Key Concepts: Key Concepts: form, causation, connection
connection, reflection perspective, connection, causation, function, connection
Related Concepts: well- responsibility change Related Concepts:
being, choice, Related Concepts: Related Concepts: organisms, ecosystems,
responsibilities geography, history, Related Concepts: Related Concepts: government, authority, biodiversity
relationships, evidence, subjectivity, opinion, geology, geography, justice, rights and roles
Lines of Inquiry: interpretation initiative, media literacy, tectonic plate movement, Lines of Inquiry:
9-10 years • Challenges and critical literacy, impact, locality, Lines of Inquiry: • Interdependence
Grade 4 risks that children Lines of Inquiry: communication, landscape, cycles • My role and within
face • Japan's history responsibility in ecosystems
• Making safe and and the Lines of Inquiry: Lines of Inquiry: my family • Ways in which
informed decisions Yokohama-Kanto • The intention • How different • The structure organisms are
• How organisations region or purpose of components of and function of interconnected
and individuals • Regional the message the Earth are groups and in nature
help to provide characteristics of • Different interrelated institutuons • How humans can
safe Japan interpretations • How the Earth • Citizenship affect the
environments. • The forming of of the has changed and • The international balance of
culture message is continuing to community and ecosystems
• Human • How to change global citizenship
movement influence • Why the Earth
audiences changes

Central Idea
Recognizing similarities and
differences between beliefs
enables people to be global
citizens.
Key Concepts: connection, Key Concepts: function,
perspective perspective, change
Related Concepts: oral
language - listening,
speaking, Visual language -
observable forms of
10-11 years communication, spirituality,
Grade 5 diversity
Lines of Inquiry:
• Characteristics of
the world's five
major religions
• The commonality
between these
beliefs
• Respecting the
beliefs of others
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throughout • Personal • Human response
Japan responses to to the Earth's
the media changes
Central Idea EXHIBITION 10/11 Central Idea Central Idea Central Idea
Scientific discoveries Central Idea Energy may be converted The success of a society is Finding peaceful solutions
shape the future and can from one form to another dependent on its systems to conflict affects the
be viewed from various and stored in various and natural resources. quality of human life.
perspectives. Key Concepts: all ways.
concepts Key Concepts: causation, Key Concepts: causation,
Key Concepts: form, connection, responsibility perspective
Related Concepts: function, responsibility
Related Concepts: Related Concepts:
Related Lines of Inquiry: Related Concepts: impact, consumption,
Concepts: progress, • conservation, distribution, Lines of Inquiry:
discoveries, technological • transformation interdependence, systems, • Conflict
advances, predjudice, • citizenship, cooperation resolution and
continuity management
Lines of Inquiry:
Lines of Inquiry: • Inequality leads
• Forms of energy
Lines of Inquiry: • What makes a to conflict
• The storage and
• How scientists society
transformation
develop an idea/ successful
of energy
theory • The ways natural
• Conservation of
• Impact of a resources shape
energy
discovery societal systems
• Renewable and
• Why people • How systems
sustainable
have different and natural
energy
view points resources affect
about a scientific people's lives
discovery. • Being an active
member of
society