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.
CONNECTION: WHow is it linked to other things?
If you are looking through the CONNECTION ‘telescope’ you will be able to uncover an idea that stretches across time place and culture that invites people to look at the interconnectedness of all things (choices, processes, interactions, systems, etc.) and what these connections might mean or need us to think about?
For example:
What are the different parts? How are they connected?
What systems or processes connect the different elements?
Where do the connections occur? (Time, place, ideology, etc.)
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IMAGINE…
If you were a linguist what connections or systems might this have you thinking about?
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If you were a designer what connections or systems might this have you thinking about?
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If you were a farmer what connections or systems might this have you thinking about?
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BOOKS LINKED TO THIS CONCEPT
Drawn Together
By Minh Lê
Illustrated by Dan Santat
Disney Hyperion 2018
Panorama A Foldout Book
By Fani Marceau and Joëlle Jolivet
Abrams Books For Young Readers
2007
A River
By Marc Martin
Viking Penguin 2015
Circle
By Jeanette Baker
Walker Books 2016
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