Room 10 Inquiry

Inquiry - Term 2 2017
Integrated Studies Plan - Sharing the planet

Central idea: Water is an essential resource for life.   

Key questions:

  • How does water cycle around the earth?
  • How is water captured and used? -
  • What is our responsibility?

Tasks involved in class:

  • Labelling of the water cycle
  • Explanation writing - how the water cycle works
  • Brainstorm different ways on how water water is used
  • Compare and contrast different features of water - diagram
  • Action plan (digital or other form)
Rubric:




Inquiry - Term 1 2017

The Earth’s conditions and position in space makes life sustainable.  
  • How does the solar system work? (function)
  • How does the position of earth in space affect its conditions? (causation)
  • How do our actions impact the conditions on Earth? (causation, responsibility)
  • Concepts
  • Function
  • Causation
  • Responsibility



Inquiry - Term 4 2016

The world’s indigenous peoples have changed over time

Key questions:


  • What is an indigenous person? (form)
  • How have indigenous communities changed over time? (change)
  • What has caused these changes to occur? (causation)
  • What has been the impact of these changes? (change/causation)


Inquiry - Mini project 


Inquiry Term 4 Room 15 2016

The world’s indigenous peoples have changed over time……

  • Your task is to choose an indigenous community that you would like to find out more about. For example….(The Inuit people, Maori people, Aboriginal People, Native Americans, People of Nepal or Masai Tribe.
  • You can use kiddle (kids google search engine) to research for information or go to your local library.
  • This will be done in class time. You can use ipads and chrome books to search information and to create your slides.

These are the questions you must answer in your mini project.

  1. What is an indigenous person?
  2. The indigenous group you have chosen and give examples of what they eat, what they wear and where they live. You might like to use a table or a Y chart to show your ideas.
  3. Use a venn diagram to compare and contrast your tribe against another tribe.
  4. Other interesting facts that you have found out about your tribe.
  5. Your wondering…. What ‘thick question’ do you have?

Please feel free to use photographs to support your findings.

You might like to present this on a google slide, doc or in a poster format. Good luck! I can’t wait to see what information you find out! We will present this to our parents and families in Week 9.



Inquiry - Term 3 2016

The advances of technology has an impact on humans and the environment....

  • Where do we use technology in our everyday lives?
  • What is the impact of technology on our daily lives and the environment?
  • How has technology changed over time?
  • Concepts - Function, Causation, Change. 


Welcome back to Term 1 2016! 
What this space for our new inquiry topics....


  • What are the different forms of art? (form)
  • How have famous artists used the arts to express their ideas and experiences? (function, perspective)
  • How can we use the arts to express our ideas, feelings and experiences creatively? (function, perspective)

Function (how does it work?)
Form (what is it like?)

Perspective (what are the points of view?)


WALT:

  • identify what art is
  • how art is made
  • identify different types of art
  • how stories/experiences/feelings are shared through the arts
  • use explicit vocabulary related to art, feelings, etc.
  • create our own representations of a story
  • relate emotion to the art



How we organise ourselves: Food production impacts humans and environment....

Key questions:


  • What are the stages of food production from field to table? (function)
  • What impact do humans and the environment have on food production? (causation)
  • How do our food purchasing choices affect people and the environment? (connection/responsibility)


Walt: (we are learning to)
  • identify what a raw material is
  • identify the difference between a want and a need
  • identify the people who play a role in the production process.
  • discuss how people work together in the production process
  • explain how a product is made.
  • discuss how the production of this product can affect the environment

During the learning of this topic we will........ 
  • look at and identify the source of raw materials
  • explain the processing of the product clearly and identify the roles of people involved
  • discuss how our choices affect the environment






How the world works: How Natural Events in the world impact on humans....

Our new Inquiry topic is: 'Events in the natural world impact on humans'.

Key Questions that we will looking at for this topic are:

  • What causes different natural events? (causation)
  • In what ways do natural events impact on humans? (causation)
  • How do people learn and recover from natural events? (reflection)

Watch this space for photos on this topic - we are all really excited learning about Tornados, Tsunamis, Hurricanes, Bushfires, Avalanches, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Floods and how these natural events impact on humans.



What is Sound??
Key Questions....
What is sound?
What are the different ways sound can be made?
How can we use sounds to express ourselves creatively?

Some videos to watch:


(the video we watched when making our Kazoo Straw).


Some videos to watch:

Sharing the Planet


Key Questions:

What is waste?
What happens to our waste?
What do we need to do to make our practices sustainable? 


We wanted to find out what waste was and if we had any around our school. Here are some photos of us investing around the school grounds. 





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