An inquiry into… • personal and family heritage

• how personal, local and global heritage allows the past to survive

• criteria to define heritage

Skills / Attributes / Attitudes… • Thinking skills (acquisition of knowledge, comprehension, analysis,

evaluation)

• Social skills (group decision making, self-management skills, time management)

• Research skills (observing, collecting data)

• Knowledgeable

• Communicator

• Appreciation

• Respect

Where We Are In Place And Time “Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today and pass on to

future generations.”

GRADE 4 UNIT OF INQUIRY #4

Concepts • Form • Connection

• Perspective

• Heritage

• Legacy

Literacy:

- Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording

- Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout

- Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features

- Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text

- Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements

- Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information

- Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently

- Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences

- Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text

Mathematics:

- Recall multiplication facts up to 10 × 10 and related division facts

- Develop efficient mental and written strategies, and use appropriate digital technologies, for multiplication and for division where there is no remainder

- Explore and describe number patterns resulting from performing multiplication

- Investigate number sequences involving multiples of 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9

- Explore and describe number patterns resulting from performing multiplication

- Solve word problems by using number sentences involving multiplication or division where there is no remainder

- Use simple scales, legends and directions to interpret information contained in basic maps

- Compare the areas of regular and irregular shapes by informal means

- Compare objects using familiar metric units of area

- Convert between units of time

- Use am and pm notation and solve simple time problems

Subject Specific Vocabulary

heritage, heirloom, legacy, upbringing, traditions, beliefs, ancestor, kin, descendant, artifact, culture, generations, significance, site