2nd Grade

Unit 1: Who we are

September 8th - November 6th

Investigate their role at school, home and community by creating a self-portrait. Students will then identify their roles in their school, home, and community and illustrate and write their roles on their self-portrait.

Voice: Allow students to collaborate with the teacher about the kinds of roles they want in the classroom
Choice: Allow students to express their top 3 roles they would like to perform in the classroom . Give students a choice board when it comes to an IB Project.
Ownership: Allow students to determine how they want to perform their roles. Students ask questions about how to perform their roles. Connect their knowledge of their roles to the real-world.

Form: Everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described, and categorized.
- What languages do we use at school? (think beyond English or Spanish)
- How can we describe time?
- Who works at the school and what do they do?
Function: Everything has a purpose, a role, or a way of behaving that can be investigated.
- Why do we name things?
- What happens if we keep adding numbers to each other?
- How can you show what you are feeling?
Connection: We live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
- How are place value and the order of numbers connected?
- How do our experiences allow us to connect with stories?

Math: place value, the order of numbers,
Reading: questioning, author’s purpose, story elements, writing,
Social Studies: physical environment, government, cultural and national symbols, celebrations
Science: Physical Properties, classification

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