Grade 3
Ms. Lau & Mr. Davydov
Mr. Bit-Shamay
Ms. Goode & Ms. Thompson
Ms. Lau & Mr. Davydov
Mr. Bit-Shamay
Ms. Goode & Ms. Thompson
April 2025
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Curriculum is a rigorous, academically challenging course of study that prepares students for the future. It's designed to develop global-mindedness and critical thinking skills.
In short, to help students become global citizens, teachers at OWN3 design learning experiences by developing a central idea, carefully selecting learner profile attributes, and key concepts, and finally, crafting lines of inquiry.
A central idea is the guidance force behind every learning experience. it is an overarching theme that students explore and investigate. They do so by selecting their learner profiles - a set of values and attributes that define what it means to be an IB student. Using related concepts students show understanding how things work, and change over time. Finally, students use lines of inquiry to guide their learning pathways, and grow their academic skills.
Structures work together to apply change.
What is a focus of our inquiry?
Animals develop physical and behavioral adaptations to survive.
There are many kinds of animal adaptations.
Function: The understanding that everything has a purpose, a role or way of behaving that can be investigated.
Causation: The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
Change: The understanding that change is the process of movement from one state to another. It is universal and inevitable.
Pattern, role, systems
Sequences, consequences, impact
Adaptation, transformation
Third Grade Unit of Inquiry: Animal Behavior and Adaptations
To explore animal behavior, students investigated four key areas: causation (what triggers the behavior), development (how it changes over an animal's lifetime), survival value (how it aids in survival), and evolution (how it evolved).
Students engaged in action-based inquiry research and experimentations. They concluded their studies by visiting the Bronx Zoo, where students gathered more information about animal behavior and their adaptations!
Investigation Question:
How do red lemurs use their tails to move around?