JESSICA GARZA
KIRSTIN FELLARS
BILL PORTER
BROOKE VILLALPANDO
LISA BOYLE
Who We Are Unit of Inquiry
Students brainstorm different ways to develop self-management skills during the first unit of Who We Are.
Learners provide examples of cause and effect to gain understanding of the key concept of causation.
Learners brainstorm what rules they would like to see for the class Essential Agreements.
Students co-construct the class essential agreements.
Students share their thinking of communities and governments as a form of structure with stickies.
Students brainstorm why it is valuable to be balanced by thinking of reasons that recess, lunch, and PE should be part of our day.
Learners go on a gallery walk to consider different types of recommended food structures around the world.
As students are taking action, photos and actions are shared with the class to show that action can look different for everyone.
Learners co-construct essential agreements and identifying key words that will help remind the community.
Students share their thinking of wonderings and categorize them through the different key concepts.
Where We Are in Time and Place Unit of Inquiry
Learners brainstorm what the key concept of responsibility might mean or share examples of what it looks like.
Learners share their thinking of what the central idea means/.
Learners unpack the key concept of form through spelling rules that connect letters and sounds.
Learners co-construct what place and time means to unpack the transdisciplinary theme of Where We are in Place and Time.