As a way of getting students to connect with the driving concept (the heart) of our units of inquiry, teachers provide students with an experience (provocation) that gets them thinking about where the unit is going. First grade teachers are starting their Sharing the Planet unit where they will focus on how we use our natural resources and the impact of our actions on the planet. They purchased many books to support this unit. They all came in many different boxes from Amazon. To get students to start to reflect, they brought all of the packaging onto the center of their carpet and asked the students what they should do with it. It invited a variety of responses from recycling to repurposing. The kids were so enthusiastic in one class that they insisted on writing their ideas on post-it notes and attached them to the objects. The teachers will refer back to their tangible experience throughout the unit. More importantly, it brought up some "tension" that will drive the unit forward: What do we do with all the "stuff" we don't want anymore?
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AuthorThis blog is written by Amber McLandrich, the school's PYP Coordinator. Archives
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