Theme: Personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health
Central Idea: The choices people make affect their health and well-being.
Key Concepts: Causation: Healthy lifestyles and well-being
Change: Growth and development
Function: Body systems
Skills: Research: Collecting data and Social skills: Collaboration
Learner profile: Balanced, Thinker
Where we are in time and place: Our hometown
Theme: Orientation in place and time
Central Idea: Urban areas develop based on community needs.
Key Concepts: Form: Our local area (on a map: home, school)
Change: Built surroundings (own suburbs)
Causation: Human action and its consequences
Skills: Self-management: Organization, Time management and Communication: Verbal, Writing
Learner Profile: Reflective, Caring
Theme: Our appreciation of the aesthetic
Central Idea: Creative expression enriches imagination and helps develop empathy.
Key Concepts: Form: Creative expression
Perspective: Creating a performance
Responsibility: Performing in front of an audience
Skills: Self-management: Reflection and Communication: Verbal, Speaking
Learner Profile: Courageous, Open-minded
Theme: The natural world and its laws
Central Idea: The Earth's natural cycles affect organisms.
Key Concepts: Form: Our solar system
Causation: Natural cycles: seasons, months, night and day
Connection: Seasonal adaptation of organisms
Skills: Thinking: Critical thinking and Research: Presenting findings
Learner profile: Knowledgeable, Thinker
Theme: The interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities
Central Idea: Products go through many processes before they reach us.
Key Concepts: Function: Origin of food
Change: Journey of food and water cycle
Responsibility: Sustainable consumption
Skills: Research skills: Recording data and Communication: Verbal, Reading
Learner profile: Inquirer, Caring
Theme: Rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and other living things
Central Idea: Everyone's action have an impact on the well-being of the Earth.
Key Concepts: Perspective: Reuse, properties of materials
Responsibility: Reducing waste
Connection: Waste recycling
Skills: Thinking: Transfer and Reseacrh: Planning
Learner profile: Communicator, Principled