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Enduring Understandings !What do we want students to understand? !Values can affect relationships. (Central idea) !Evidence for our values can be found in our choices and behaviours. !!!!!!
Lines of Inquiry What are our lines of inquiry ? • Values (form) !• How values evolve (change) !• How values affect our
behaviours and relationships (connection) !!!!
Concepts Form: • Understanding the meaning of
personal values • Understanding the difference
between abstract values and valuable items
Change: • Understanding that some on ones
values can change throughout one’s life.
Connection: • Understanding how values shape
our choices, actions and relationships. !
An inquiry into the
nature of the self; beliefs and values;
human relationships
including families, friends,
communities, and cultures; what it means to be human. !!
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TEACHER QUESTION: How do our values affect our lives?
To develop responsible global citizens and leaders through academic excellence.
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Vocabulary values behaviour perspective relationships open-minded empathy abstract personal evolve
!influence interviewer interviewee open-ended infer evidence core values common values
PYP Attitudes: What attitudes do we want to foster? Empathy: Sensing how other peoples’ values can guide their choices and behaviours. Respect: Learning to respect ourselves as individuals and others with whom we maintain relationships. Tolerance: Showing understanding toward the varied values of others. !!Learner Profile Attitudes Reflective: Students will have many opportunities to reflect on how their own unique values are forming and how they guide ones choices and actions. Open-minded: Students will listen to guest speakers and conduct interviews consider the varied lives and ideas of others. !!!
Skills: !Communication
• listening • speaking !
Social • Respecting others !!
Research • Formulating questions:
interviewing older students • Collecting data: interviews • Organizing data: making
infographics with findings • Interpreting data: drawing
conclusions from data, finding differences and similarities
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4 ACTION: Students are encouraged and supported to reflect on their new learning and as a result, take independent action.
Knowing how to use subject specific terminology
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• Have your child share their learning with you; personal values shared by guest speakers; the values of CDNIS; the values of the IB. !
* Family discussions: personal values of each family member; family issues that arise because of differences in values; where your values come from; the connection between personal relationships and values; identifying the evidence that indicates a person’s values; the values of well known identities.
Success Criteria Students will understand that: What values are, how they can change and how they can affect choices and relationships. !Evidence for our values can be found in our choices and behaviours.
Students will know: Subject specific vocabulary Interviewing skills !Students will be able to: • Articulate an awareness of their values and
those of others • Formulate questions as a means of
collecting data • Interpret data collected • Demonstrate empathy and independence in
their interactions !!!!!!!!
How is Mathematics connected to the unit? !DATA HANDLING Design and conduct surveys; collect, display, represent and interpret data; present findings by choosing the most appropriate graph formats; understand that different types of graphs have different purposes !How is Literacy connected with the unit? • Read novels, picture books and news
articles to analyze characters infer their values
• Use appropriate organizational frameworks and language features when conducting interviews and writing biographies
• Use subject specific vocabulary to explain their growing understanding in the form of a process journal
How can parents help at home? W
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