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How We Express Ourselves Communities are connected through the expression of culturally significant traditions.
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Our Central Idea:
Communities are connected through the expression of culturally significant traditions. Our Lines of inquiry:
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Questions:
Our Main Concepts:
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Table of Contents Page 3 - What is the Exhibition? Page 5 - What is our Purpose? Page 6 - Timeline Page 7 – My Roles and Responsibilities Page 8 – The Exhibition Requirements Page 9 – Our Essential Agreement Page 10 - Academic Honesty and Recording Bibliographies Page 11 - What do we want to learn? Page 13 – Line of Inquiry and Questions Page 14 – Action Page 15 – 18 Goal Setting Page 19 – Mentors Page 20 - Assessment: Transdisciplinary Skills Page 21 – Assessment: Team Page 22 – Assessment: Personal Page 23 – Assessment: Parent Page 24 & 25 - Journal Entries
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What is the Exhibition?
It’s your graduation from the PYP
It’s a celebration of all you have learned during your time in the PYP
It’s a chance to use all your prior learning
It’s yours – YOU TAKE CONTROL! You plan the inquiry, you create it and assess it.
It is the biggest and most detailed investigation you will take part in,
demonstrating all your learning in the PYP.
Your teachers will assess your planning and learning, including your
reflections, the methods you use, the way you link your exhibition to the
central idea and any forms of action that you engage in as a result.
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What is our Purpose?
To work collaboratively on an inquiry unit culminating in the Exhibition
To show both independence and responsibility for learning
To show an understanding of multiple perspectives
To reflect upon our learning
To take action in the form of preparing and presenting the Exhibition
To be united together with fellow students, teachers, parents and other members of the school community to celebrate your completion of the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate
The Exhibition will involve the following skills:
1. Thinking about and discussing possible issues to be investigated with a teacher
2. Posing questions that help to define the central idea, the concepts to be used and decide upon lines of inquiry
3. Collecting and selecting appropriate information – All material presented at the Exhibition needs to be appropriate for any child and/or adult to view.
4. Planning the Exhibition 5. Gathering the necessary materials and writing down the sources 6. Reflecting on the process through regular journal entries 7. Presenting the Exhibition on Thursday 3 November
SKILLS
a. Thinking b. Research c. Communication d. Social e. Self-Management
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Timeline
TTask What is required Completed Date
1. Tuning In Week 1 Discuss Central idea Discuss key points Listen to ideas, issues, problems
2. Decision Making End of week 1 and week 2
Select an area of personal interest Group decisions on inquiry Create lines of inquiry and questions
Researching – finding out
Week 2, 3 and 4
Sorting Out Week 4 Going further Week 5 After conferencing with your
teacher and mentor, review your inquiry and enhance your presentation.
Reflection Week 6 Presenting Week 7 Monday – Performance
Tuesday - Wednesday – Erect display Thursday - Present Friday – reflect and take down
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My Roles and Responsibilities
Tick the box if you understand the following and think you can complete the task.
Explain why we are doing the exhibition and what are the requirements of our exhibition
Participate to my full ability
Develop the inquiry by creating our own lines of inquiry and questions
Always plan together and know what each member of the group is doing
Carry out an inquiry in depth
Use the elements of PYP (Learner profile and its attributes);
Show an understanding of the five essential elements: concepts, knowledge, skills, attitudes and action
If possible, use a primary source of information
Keep an honest bibliography
Communicate to the best of my ability
Keep a journal or portfolio of our planning, draft pieces of work, sketches and photographs of work in progress as well as the final product
Carry out self-assessment and peer assessment
Celebrate learning by presenting the exhibition to an audience.
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The Exhibition Requirements
My Exhibition will include:
Examples of written work in a variety of formats and styles: poetry, reports, surveys, graphs and essays. (word processed or handwritten)
Oral presentations, individually or in groups, to the school community
Uses of technology such as working models, ICT designs, science experiments, imovies and powerpoint presentations
Performance or composition in any medium: dance, music, drama, visual arts, film, video or mixed media
Japanese (Organised in Japanese lessons with Melissas and Jakki)
A piece of Art (Organised in Art with Sally)
Music (Organised in Music with Kerry)
Dance (Organised in PE lessons with Lisa)
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Our Essential Agreement
WE AGREE TO:
Signed:
Date:
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Individual Declaration of Academic Honesty
By signing this declaration I understand the meaning of ‘plagiarism’. Plagiarism is the presentation by a student of an assignment which has in fact been copied in whole or in part from another student’s work, or from any other source (eg. published books, websites) without due acknowledgement in the text. I, ____________________ declare that for this submitted work:
I did not cut-and paste information from others without appropriate use of quotation marks and direct reference to their work;
I did not re-word the ideas of others without proper and clear
acknowledgement;
I did not write ideas or suggestions that originated from others and claim these as my own;
I did not include words from other students’ work without permission.
Signed: ___________________________ Date: ______________
Recording Bibliographies
Book – record the author, year, title, publisher and page numbers
Website – record the URL
Interview – record the name, role of person and date of interview
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What Do We Want To Learn?
Ideas I would like to consider:
Ideas others in my group would like to consider:
Our big idea is:
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Lines of inquiry remember these are statements not questions 2 or 3 lines of inquiry is ideal
An inquiry into: 1. 2. 3.
Questions
(Important – Write these on page 1) What concepts do your questions fit? Group them.
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Taking Action
What action can we achieve?
How do we plan to achieve this?
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Week 2 Goals
Date:
What is our goal this week?
What did I do to help achieve our goal?
What else do we need to do?
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Week 3 Goals
Date:
What is our goal this week?
What did I do to help achieve our goal?
What else do we need to do?
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Week 4 Goals
Date:
What is our goal this week?
What did I do to help achieve our goal?
What else do we need to do?
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Week 5 Goals
Date:
What is our goal this week?
What did I do to help achieve our goal?
What else do we need to do?
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Mentors
Assessment - Transdisciplinary Skills
Our Mentor is: Our weekly meeting time and day is:
Week 1 – Meet your mentor Mentor’s signature
Week 2 – Comment from mentor if necessary
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6 – Invite your mentor to the Exhibition next Thursday 3 Nov.
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Tick these as you work through the inquiry process leading to the Exhibition. Write the
transdisciplinary skills in your journals to show where they were used or applied and how.
Student check Teacher check Thinking Skills - Acquiring knowledge
Comprehending Applying
Analysing Synthesising – combining information
Evaluating Thinking about other people’s point of view
Social Skills - Accepting responsibility Respecting others
Cooperating Resolving conflict
Group decision making Adopting a variety of roles
Communication Skills - Listening Speaking Reading
Writing Viewing
Presenting Self–Management Skills – Time management
Safety Appropriate Behaviour
Informed choices Spatial awareness
Research Skills – Formulating questions Observing
Planning Collecting, organising and interpreting data
Presenting research findings
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Assessment - Group
Who did this well Rate your team from 1-10 INQUIRER
Courageous, knows how to research and loves learning
COMMUNICATORS Get and give ideas and information
confidently
RISK-TAKER Willing to try new things and stands-
up for own beliefs
KNOWLEDGEABLE Know a lot about important issues
PRINCIPLED Honest, fair, just, takes learning
seriously
CARING Care about others at work, want to
do good things and help others
OPEN-MINDED Consider other people’s ideas and
listen to what others have to say
WELL-BALANCED Enjoy doing lots of different things,
have a good balance between study and play
REFLECTIVE Look back on their work and try to
improve where they need to
THINKER Think before acting and before
solving problems
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Assessment - Personal
1. Process- I worked well as part of a team
Level of ability
Beginner Expert 2. Process- I stayed focused as an individual
Level of ability
Beginner Expert 3. Research- the quality and the depth of my research
Level of ability
Beginner Expert
4. Research- All work is my own and I understand what I have written.
Level of ability
Beginner Expert
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Parent Evaluation
What have you learned from your child’s Exhibition? What have you learned about your child and their participation in the learning process?
Skills Social Skills Research Skills Thinking Skills Communication Skills Self-management Skills
Select one of the skills listed. How do you think your child has developed this skill through the exhibition?
Learner Profile Inquirers Thinkers Communicators Risk-takers Knowledgeable Principled Caring Open-minded Well-balanced Reflective
Select one or two of the qualities listed. How do you think your child has developed this quality through the exhibition?
General Comments: Signed:
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