This is a useful learner-profile attributes quick reflection for students at the end of a unit of inquiry. Students reflect on their learner profile strengths and set goal for the next unit. They also synthesize (briefly) what they have learned and come up with actions they can take to make this knowledge relevant and meaningful in their lives. There are two versions: one including a place for the unit of inquiry only, and one that includes space for the unit in inquiry title and the central idea. I find this very helpful for report writing as well.
About the Product: This handmade set includes 4 posters (two pink, two green) for displaying your Central Idea and Lines of Inquiry for PYP Units of Inquiry. The background and watercolor paper label are what is being purchased. The space is for you to write or type the information for your units. You will receive a single PDF which includes a link to also access this on your Google Drive to edit it digitally. I find it most beautiful when my students write on it 🥰 but you should see what is best for your classroom and learners. If you love this, check out these matching Learner Profile Posters (available in English, German, Spanish and bilingual Spa/Eng) https://www.etsy.com/listing/939709610/11-ib-learner-profile-posters?click_key=e0cee404981af9a8e6bb6013145d2a6d6ec4e364%3A939709610&click_sum=3737e9b9&ref=shop_home_feat_4 Terms of Use: I made this for you and your students. You may not share, sell, distribute or copy it in any way. By purchasing, you agree to these terms. Downloading and Printing: You can download your files from the confirmation page, the email sent to you after payment or from your purchases on Etsy. The posters will be delivered as a single PDF. Your file has been designed and created for printing on A4 paper, but can easily be printed on US Letter, A5 or A3 sizes. When printing, you will see options for “Print entire image” or “Print full page”. Preview both before printing to determine which fit is best for your paper size. Visit www.OurYellowBench.com and check out the free resource library. A monthly newsletter delivers freebies, news and promotions every mid-month 💛 © Our Yellow Bench 2022 All right reserved
At my school, we use Kath Murdoch’s Inquiry Cycle. Many of our staff are new the PYP and new to inquiry-based teaching and learning, so we find this inquiry cycle provides some structure to t…
This year we had 25 wonderful new staff join our Primary Years Program. As PYP Coordinator, myself and my trusty partner are charged with the privilege of training them in all things PYP. We decide…
My new first grade teaching partner this year is going to teach me a lot of fun new things, I can already tell. Here is a picture I took of her inquiry cycle board after our first six-week unit: Pr…
Homes 26 February to 7th May 2012 Our 5th unit of inquiry is under the theme of Where We Are In Place And Time is titled ‘Homes’. We are investigating how and why people make their homes the way t…
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This Environment and Traits 5E Unit Plan is an inquiry-based unit that focuses investigating acquired and learned traits from the environment.
International Bacclaureate Primary Years Program: A complete unit of inquiry for the transdisciplinary theme, How the World Works, focusing on space. This unit was created for first grade, but could easily be adapted for second grade. Central Idea: The universe is vast and complex. See table of contents for specific activities. Note: I continue to update and add to this unit each year as I teach it myself. Check back for updates! UPDATED 2/27/23 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Be sure to follow my store to be alerted about new products >>> CLICK HERE Don’t forget to leave feedback. You will receive TPT CREDITS that can be used on future purchases! Please read our Terms of Use for IB Ready: PYP in First Grade and Beyond before using this product.
Do you focus as much on the process of learning as the content? Do your students reflect as much on how they learn as on what they learn. As a PYP school, we have six units of inquiry each year, on…
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Learn all about the Solar System in this week's FREE Unit Study! Includes planets, moon phases, space exploration and more! Practice researching, following directions, and creative writing! And make your own solar system model!
Hello Everyone! What a great day to start a study on clouds!! Dark clouds this morning releasing a deluge of rain! By 1:00 beautiful clear sky with just a few cirrus clouds! Perfect example of our ever changing skies. I'll share our Cloud Unit in a second, but first I wanted to show some pics of our whole group math lesson. We are continuing our study of place value. After all the activities we did last week, it was time to see how all of this fits in relationship to other numbers. I pulled out our bigger than life 100 board and handed out some mystery picture clues. Each clue described a number in place value (tens and ones). The kids took turns putting their cards on the number for which their clue stood. When we finished putting all the clues down, a cloud was revealed! Use your imagination! It looks like a cloud, right??? The kids loved working together to create it!! I'm not even sure they realized they were growing their number sense!!! I did put together a little integrated cloud unit. We are going to try to get most of this in this week!! The unit also includes some poetry, another science activity and more!! You can get it if you click HERE!! Stay tuned for more cloud fun later in the week! Until then, have a wonderful week!! Thanks for stopping by for a peek!! Joyfully! Nancy
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Use these Key Concept Puzzles and Cards to help your PYP students better understand and remember the IB Key Concepts. Each card has concept questions to help students think deeply and make connections to their units of inquiry. Puzzles & cards can be laminated and cut for use in classroom stations. Small versions of the Key Concepts can be put on rings for individual use to help students as they answer and develop their own questions throughout your inquiry. Here's what you'll get: 8 small Key Concept Posters in Bright Colors 8 small Key Concept Posters in Black and White 16 Black and White Key Concept Cards Matching/Memory Game 16 Color Concept Cards Matching/Memory Game 8 colorful puzzles one for each of the Key Concepts 1 Recording Sheet for reinforcement As your student gain greater understanding of the pyp key concepts you will love to see them begin to develop and ask their own concept based questions! Holly B. says, 'Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. It can be tough to introduce IB vocabulary to younger children, but your matching game helps kids practice the terms and your posters help me remember them, while brightening up the room as well. I LOVE the questions included on the cards! They help our second graders create their own questions. The smaller sized cards worked great at getting the concepts into the hands of our learners as was suggested by our IB evaluators." NOTE: This item can also be purchased in a bundle with all of my International Baccalaureate PYP products at a discounted price. Everything you need to set up and reinforce IB concepts with your PYP students. Click here to see my IB PYP Posters-Centers Mega Bundle Click this link to see more International Baccalaureate Products Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺ Copyright © Mom2punkerdoo All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Not for public display. Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.
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#HelpingHandsBundle --ONE DAY ONLY SALE! 50% off!!! Sunday May 29th only! Inquiry Based Learning Ideas for Our Changing Roles and Responsibilities and Local Community (Community Helper) units. Social Studies Bulletin boards for Grade 1 Ontario Curriculum! A great addition to your science units! This inquiry board will be a great addition to your classroom! *BUNDLE!! Includes BOTH STRANDS!!!* Everything you need to add some inquiry-based learning to your grade 1 classroom! These items are ready to use! Just print, (laminate if desired) and pop them on to your board! Give your students some sticky notes and see how they will astound you! What's Included ★ Title pieces (in Tina's Signature Preppy Colours & Style) ★ Big Ideas Overview Full Page Poster ★ 9 Sample Inquiry Question Prompts ★ 30+ high quality photographs to provoke questioning, conversation and scientific thinking. Photos are of student-friendly topics they will recognize and relate to. ★ One "Photo Wall" One-Page option, ideal for ink-savers and smartboard users ★ Wonder Journal ★ Home Connection- Oral Communication Presentation instruction sheet for parents, planning sheets for students, sample complete project sheets (great to show parents and students what is expected), and assessment checklist ★ Generic Wonder Write prompt page ★ Assessment Checklist (for wonder write or inquiry oral interview) ★ Generic Question Prompts (for expert inquirers or for gradual release towards independent question creation). ★★ [For Each Of The Strands!] ★★ Why Should I Use This? This is a great way to add some more inquiry to your social studies units in a manageable and age appropriate way. Your young learners will see you modelling the questioning process and the board provides many entry points for easy differentiation. Think about the range of discussion you can have from a simple photo! The photos are great for ESL students and students with low reading levels as they can jump right in to the conversation. I truly hope this board becomes a classroom staple for you and your students! How Do I Use This? The beauty of this item is that it is easy, easy, easy! Once the board is up, students can add their wonders and their wows using sticky notes. To introduce your unit, the students would look at the photos, make some predictions, do a few turn and talks, or note ideas on sticky notes. As you are working through the unit, be sure to refer back to the board (example: “Today we learned about children’s past times around the world. Do you see any children playing in the photos on our Wonder Wall? Where might they be living? Why do you think that? Be sure to note your thinking on a sticky note if you find some!). If you have an early finisher, encourage them to find some new wonders or chose another person’s wonder to investigate and answer. BONUS: Your admin will LOVE that this board is inquiry based, bright, real life focused, AND interactive. This bulletin board will NOT become ‘wallpaper’ in your room, because your students will be constantly adding to it, you will be referring to it, and it will be growing and changing with the advancement of your unit. You may also like: Local Community Full Unit Our Changing Roles and Responsibilities Full Unit More Grade 1 Ontario Items
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Explore our place in space with this engaging mini-unit designed with Australian Prep and Foundation students in mind! Over 6 mini lessons, your little learners will explore where their school is in terms of their street/road, suburb, state, country and planet.Your little learners will LOVE explorin...
Lots of easy ideas for learning about materials and their properties, perfect for key stage 1 science for kids.
This is a differentiated math menu that was created for Grade 6 students as a part of a transdisciplinary unit entitled, How We Express Ourselves.
The First Great Lesson awakens awe and wonder in the child, and gives them a framework to hang later physical earth and science lessons from.
Ramps and a Focus on Persistence Here are some activities that have been going on since December during the kids play: Do you see the reaccuring theme in their play? These kids have been obsessed with ramps and creating motion! One child created a catapult out of blocks! So we have decided to inquire about force and motion. I have a feeling this will also take us into some simple machines! As the kids made ramps, the problem solving, teamwork and persistence amazed me. These are qualities I want to instill in these kids to help them in the future. I was so proud of them! The kids have also presented to the class how they built their ramps, problems they ran into (The car wouldn't go through the tunnel, the car kept falling off the ramp, the car wouldn't go as far as they wanted...) and what they did to solve the problems. We have been having discussions about persistence and how important it is to have it! We discussed what would happen if people did not have persistence and just gave up! This group does not give up when things get hard because of their persistence. I want to make sure they know what this quality is that they have, how important it is and how proud I am that they have it as 5 year olds! I think this will be an ongoing theme with anything they do in our room! After observing all of these ramps. we came up with a definition for the term "motion." They realized that motion is movement. We brainstormed different ways things move. They came up with all kinds of motions! Jumping, rolling, running, falling, slamming, pushing, pulling, etc. The next day, I laid out a bucket of items and asked the kids if any of these things can have motion all by themselves? They quickly came to the conclusion that in order to move, things need help! I let them know that the help they were thinking of is called "force." The next day we did a lesson idea that I got from an amazing teacher in our building, Mrs. Atkin. The kids each picked an item and had to provide a force to make it move. Here are some of the kids coming up with ideas on how to create a force to make items move. Swishing a duster, blowing tissue paper, rolling a paper tube, making a frog hop. They also thwacked, threw, squeezed glue, pushed and pulled scissor handles, and so much more! The kids then brainstormed some questions they had about motion: What force makes us move? How do cars move? What force pulls us back down after we jump up? (I threw that one in!) What force makes the wind move? How does rain and snow come down? (Yay! I was hoping they would start asking questions about weather! That is such a fun inquiry!) I can't wait to see where this inquiry takes us and how they apply it to the ramps that they have been creating! Science Fair This week our school had it's annual Science Fair! The kids got to have a taste of it during the day, then brought their families in the evening to enjoy! Here are some photos of a few of the science activities the kids were able to explore during the day (There were so many more set up in the evening that I did not get pictures of!). light and shadows color mixing tornado tubes blubber, feely boxes, life cycles, informational books
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This Inquiry Pack contains a range of resources to support your students through any Unit of Inquiry from tuning in to action. Resources will help teachers to plan units, and also scaffold mini inquiries for students enabling them to improve their learning behaviours to become more effective lifelong learners. Students will feel supported by using the scaffolds provided here in planning and conducting their research, and also in planning their action. Included in this download you will find: ★Review of the unit of inquiry format which can be used for: Planning the unit Reflecting on the unit Tracking the progress through the inquiry cycle Student can use it to monitor their progress through the inquiry cycle ★End of UOI Review – Reflection tool ★End of UOI Evaluation – alternative reflection tool ★Scientific Inquiry Cycle ★Scientific Inquiry Recording Page ★Mini Inquiry scaffold: To help student to plan and record their personal inquiry Includes spaces for student to record within a range of sources of information Dedicated section for recording response from a primary source of information ★Research Planner: To help student plan the resources they will use in their research To plan what they need to do if they run into difficulty Includes a prompt for evaluating the usefulness of the information they find ★Inquiry Behaviours: Visual reminder for students ★Student Target Setting: To enable students to focus on their learning behaviours Self assessment of learning behaviours section included Effective prompts for student self target setting included Time related targets ensures they are manageable ★Learning Discussion: Provides the scaffold for a discussion with a critical friend about the learning which has taken place ★Homework Discussion: Provides the scaffold for a discussion with a critical friend about home learning ★Action Proposal: Scaffold to support students in planning their action following an inquiry cycle Essential questions included to ensure action will make a difference and will respond to a genuine need Graphics courtesy of mycutegraphics.com You May Also Like Thank you for looking at my product. Have a look at some of my other products to support inquiry here: PYP Learner Profile Pack {International Baccalaureate} Action in the PYP – {5 Essential Elements – Taking Action} Approaches to Learning in the PYP {5 Essential Elements – Skills} Planning the Inquiry – The Planning Pack Attitudes in the PYP - {5 Essential Elements - Attitudes} (Posters) PYP Attitudes Pack {5 Essential Elements - Attitudes} (Activities Pack) How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. I value your feedback very much as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: Look for the green star near the top of any page within my store and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive customized email updates about this store.
We've put together some really fun and educational Venus activities. Learn all about volcanoes, radar and more.
Learn about the inner planets for kids with activity ideas about Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Earth plus solar system for kids printables!
C is for Cookie: Cookie Erosion The kindergarteners, first graders, and second graders gathered for the experiment. While the other grades worked together. We did discover something- we should have had goggles!!! The older kids glued copies into their science logs, the others said out loud and I jotted them down on post-it notes. I taped the tools to the chart, so all of the students knew what they were (even though I kept calling them by the wrong names lol) We started with the Q-Tip, then on to the toothpick, then finally the water. We found out that the Q-Tip didn't do much. The toothpick did the most damage... to US! The crumbs were flying all around!!! Hence us needing the goggles! We used the cheep-o chocolate chip cookies. I use the same kind of cookie for digging for dino bones :) You will have to wait for December for that post though! I just recreated the chart from above from this unit: I wish they put their info on it. I am sure that you would like a copy too! If this is your, give me a shout-out so I can send them your way! It is a great unit!! I did have some very unhappy second graders when they didn't get to eat the cookies. When I do this experiment again, maybe there will be money in the budget to buy extra cookies. A little side note- We never did get to do the 5 minute test- namely because we ran out of time lol We only have 15 minutes for a session. :)
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IB unit of inquiry newsletter to communicate to parents what students are learning in class. It is a great overview for each unit. This unit is a 2nd grade IB under the transdisciplinary theme: Where we are in place and time and focuses on Ancestors and Culture.
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Do you happen to live in a volcanic area? We unfortunately don't. I mean, Germany isn't exactly known for its volcanoes, right? Amazingly though, it does have quite a few (about a hundred) but sadly, they do not look the part anymore being that they have been extinct and worn down for millions of years. That doesn't mean my son wasn't thrilled to hear that we had one dormant volcano or that we'd climb to the top of one! Here is the latest on our volcano unit! Writing in "Volcanic Sand" We've written in sand, salt, shaving cream and such before so this time, we wrote in "volcanic sand". I wish it were real but sadly, little me didn't think ahead and didn't bring back any black sand from the Canary Island beach we lounged on a few years back. I guess I was too busy getting my feet off of it (black sand is really hot by the way!) I made this "pretend volcanic sand" using salt and black food coloring. The plastic rock and volcano are decorations from a toy my son has. We used this tray to practice writing numbers mostly but I also saw my son borrow it to practice writing CVC words. Volcanic Versus Non-Volcanic Rocks Now these rocks are real! :) We haven't studied rocks yet so this is a new topic and it has opened a HUGE interest in rock collecting! :) With these few rocks, Adrian had to try and determine whether they were volcanic or non-volcanic rocks. Just by looking, it is not so easy. I let him sort and then I gave him a bit of information on how each rock formed to help him decide whether the rock was in the right place or not. The best part of course is simply handling the rocks...and knowing that some of these might be pulverized and laying on a black sand beach somewhere... Plate tectonics & Volcanoes We learned a lot about volcanoes during our unit...How they grow, what comes out of them, but one question really remained: why are there so many volcanoes in some areas and none in others? It's a tricky question for the younger crowd but with the help of some creme sandwich cookies, it somehow seemed easier to explain...Thus, a big thank you to Prof. Lillie at Oregon State for providing an excerpt of his book into which he explains how plate tectonics work with the help of the delicious cookies. I started with a simple flat map of Earth stating that Earth's surface is like a big puzzle of 7 big pieces and several smaller ones. These pieces are called plate tectonics. These can and do move. Most of the time, we don't feel them shifting but sometimes we do; for example, there might be an earthquake! Of course, earthquakes, like volcanoes happen more in some places than others. Looking at the first plate tectonic map, I asked my son to point out our location. Ah, we were not close to any of the lines called plate tectonic boundaries. The boundaries is where most of the movement of the Earth is felt. For example, the plates sometimes grind together or pull apart. Now was the time to bring in the yumminess! We pretended each cookie represented Earth's mantle (hard crust on top, softer mantle in the middle, lower harder mantle in touch with the liquid core of the planet at the bottom). The first cookie simply allowed me to show that a plate can slide around. They are not tight fitting. There is wiggle room. Then came a second cookie to represent a divergent plate. I broke the top, pushed it in the cream a bit and up again and left a crack. We now had a ridge. Iceland has lots of those! How many are deep enough to even let magma through? We moved on to the second plate; a transform plate. Broke the top of my cookie and made one piece grind against the other. This grinding gives us many earthquakes. A bit of the West Coast in the U.S.A. is located at the boundary of a transform plate. No wonder there are so many earthquakes in California! Finally, the last type of plate is the one that was most interesting for our study: the convergent plate, located pretty much all over the Ring of Fire... This cookie was fun. I cracked the top in two and slid one piece under the other broken piece. It did touch the bottom cookie and broke it too...allowing imaginary magma to come to the surface from the liquid core of Earth... We now knew how plates work, where they are and why volcanoes happen more in some areas. With the plate tectonic maps, Adrian was able to locate lots of volcano sites... and assumed the volcanic islands not at boundaries were born from hot spots. Hello Hawaii and the Canary Islands! Ring of Fire Map & Highlighting Adrian being the volcano lover that he is, he's known for a while that some areas are more prone to others to being host nations. Having explored tectonic plates, I wanted him to discover what effect these really had on the development of volcanoes so I printed a map of the famous Ring of Fire in black and white, showing where the volcanoes are (would provide link but it's already broken...). Adrian then had to "find" the Ring of Fire by highlighting the possible corridor. Of course, he didn't want to leave Hawaii and Easter Island behind so he covered those parts too but overall, he really did find the ring. Then, comparing with the plate tectonic boundary map, I asked him if these volcanoes had developed due to hot spots or due to tectonic plate movements. Without a doubt, he answered that these were located at the boundaries of various plates. These were caused by convergent plates shifting. Location & Status of the Decade Volcanoes Sixteen volcanoes have been identified as particularly interesting by the IAVCEI. Apparently, these volcanoes should be known to the public and more closely monitored because of their location (close to populated areas) and because of their potential for destruction (they tend to be very destructive). Using a map providing the location of each of these volcanoes, Adrian and I work together to identify the current status of each as of right now. Adrian was very excited to work on this. We went through the map by continent/country and then, color-coded by status (VolcanoDiscovery is great to check out statuses and much more!). It was good geography work. Once the map was completed, we played a little game where I'd ask him to tell me how many of the decade volcanoes are erupting today or how many decade volcanoes are located in Africa, and so on. Volcano Eruption Experiment Active volcanoes are spectacular to watch for kids. Whether it's a picture, a video or even in real life, it's simply fascinating for them. Being that we live far from most active volcanoes, I resorted to prepare our own! That is something we did last year during dinosaur week so it wasn't going to be new but it was so well received last year that surely, Adrian wouldn't mind...and he didn't. Neither did his sister. I prepared the volcano as I did last year, following Beth's instructions but going a bit heavier on the soap this time (hehehe). Adrian loved making the volcano erupt himself several times and he and his sister loved having the dinos join in the fun. Playing with the bin Melted Wax Crayon Volcano Craft on Canvas Of course one piece of art for such an extensive unit was not going to cover for it so we tried this one as suggested by Ms. Lemons. I purchased a small canvas for the kids and let them paint a nice sky and ground with tempera paints and we let it dry overnight. The next day, we picked four "lava-colored" crayons and taped them to our landscape using masking tape. It was now time to make the volcano erupt. With the use of a hair dryer, we melted the crayons. It didn't take that long. It's a slow start but once it's going, it's flowing! I let my oldest try with the hair dryer but he thought it was a bit too noisy and heavy and preferred to cover his ears while I melted the crayons under his fascinated eyes. He somehow did not believe this would work! :) While the wax cooled, the kids each drew a cone shaped volcano on a small paper bag and cut it. Once the wax was completely cooled, we glued it to our crayons and landscape. This craft was, to this day, one of my son's favorites. He is asking to melt more crayons almost everyday now! :) Famous German Volcanoes Of course when studying a topic as fascinating as volcanoes, children will often wonder if there are such "mountains of fire" close to them. My son had asked and I thought I'd prepare a small booklet of Germany's Top 3 volcanoes for him. In the folder, he found a map showing where each volcano was but also where he lives as well as a file for each volcano. Together, we read a bit about each to find out their status and type. Field trip to a German Volcano! "Visiting" a volcano will of course not be possible for everyone but if it is, it makes for a wonderful field trip. My son was oh-so-happy to hike to the top of this very extinct volcano and see all these basalt rocks. Even better, he got to bring one back and the one he picked clearly shows the path the lava went 24 millions years ago! Adrian in front of a basalt column A volcanic lunch To complete your unit, what's better than an "eruptive" luncheon? Sandwiches are rarely served here because leftovers are usually what's for lunch but when nothing's left, soups and sandwiches are usually the fillers. During our volcano unit, the sandwich was not just any sandwich: it was a volcano; an active one with a ketchup and cheddar cheese lava on a bed of fresh lettuce. 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