Concepts are understandings that cross time, place and culture. Imagine that you had a series of telescopes or lenses that when you looked through them you would see the world in a very particular way. This is what concepts help learners do, see that regardless of disciplines or subjects all things are connected and can be viewed in particular ways through conceptual understandings.
The IB PYP has identified seven key concepts to focus all learning in the primary years. However conceptual inquiry is not unique or limited to teaching within the IB. For more ideas feel free to contact us and we can help you develop concept driven inquiry for you and your learners.
FUNCTION: Why is it like this?
If you are looking through the FUNCTION ‘telescope’ you will be able to uncover an idea idea that stretches across time place and culture suggesting that everything has role, a purpose or way of working that can be observed, documented, explored or adapted.
For example:
What job, role and purpose might it have?
What can it do or be used for?
How does it move or behave?
What actions or reactions might occur?
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IMAGINE…
If you were an author what role or purpose might water or reflections have in your work?
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If you were an historian what role or purpose might water or reflections have in your work?
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If you were an inventor what role or purpose might water or reflections have in your work?
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BOOKS LINKED TO THIS CONCEPT
The Flow Of Water
Written by Da-jeong Yu
Illustrated by Mi-ye Jeong
Edited by Joy Cowley
big & SMALL publishers
Sand Swimmers The secret life of Australia’s Dead Heart
By Narelle Oliver
Walker Books
A Village is a Busy Place!
By Rohima Chitrakar and V. Geetha
Tara Books 2016
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