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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. WHO WE ARE 18 Aug - 19 Sept 2014 TEACHER QUESTION: How do our values affect our lives? To develop responsible global citizens and leaders through academic excellence. 1

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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. !!

WHO WE ARE18

Aug

- 19

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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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