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WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME

(25th April- 9th June)

Central Idea: Explorations lead to discoveries, opportunities and new understandings

Unit of Inquiry UNIT VOCABULARY:

Concepts: ● Explore
Causation, Perspective ● Discovery
● Consequences
ATL Skills Focus: ● Voyage
Thinking: evaluating and synthesising ● Expedition
Research: media literacy (seeking multiple Literacy
perspectives), analysis and interpretation
Writing
Learner Profile Focus: Focus text types: Writing to inform and entertain
Inquirers, Knowledgeable, Communicators (Newspaper articles, letters, narratives)
Focus Skills:
Lines of Inquiry: ● Voice (language and style to suit text type)
● ​Reasons for exploration ● Sentence Fluency (varying sentence types)
● Consequences of explorations
● New discoveries and understanding from Reading focus skills:
exploration ● Inferential skills
● Reading strategies when encountering new
Examples of learning engagements: vocabulary
● Researching and analysing major Speaking & Listening focus skill:
explorations ● Oral presentation skills
● Human statues of chosen explorers and
museum guides Viewing & Presenting focus skill:
● Plotting journeys and interpreting maps ● Use skills and strategies to present
information
Maths
● Integrated-Measurement: time (analogue INTEGRATORS:
and digital), timelines, distance, PE: Swimming
● Integrated- Shape and Space: reading Mandarin: Stories about Marco Polo and Zheng He
coordinates, Performing Arts: Evolution of orchestral
● Fractions instruments and aspects of performance
● Pattern and Function Visual Arts: Landscapes and Seascapes (Unit
integration), Line and colour contrast (Stand alone
Art)