7/30/2019 How We Organise Ourselves Newsletter

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How We Organize Ourselves

We are starting our new unit under the Transdisciplinary Theme of Sharing the

Planet. This is an inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and

the structure and function of organizations. Please find below details of the unit and

outlines of how Language Arts and Mathematics will be integrated.

Central Idea Systems work to produce, process and transport the goods we use.

Key Concepts Function -a system and identify its various stages.

Connection the connections within a system and identify its various stages.

Related concepts: interdependency and efficiency

Lines of Inquiry Stages of a production system

Interdependencies within a system

Integrated

Maths

Shape and Space

Directional language

Capacity

Properties of 3-D shapes

Integrated

Language Arts

Viewing and Presenting:

Realize that shapes, symbols and colours have meaning and includethem in presentations

Observe and discuss illustrations in books, commenting on the information conveyed

Listening and Speaking:

Talk about stories, writing, pictures and models that have been created

Reading:

Features of non-fiction and reading non-fiction text continued

Determining important information

Writing : procedural writing

Illustrate writing and contribute to a class book.

Key Vocabulary Raw material, transport, factory, assembly line, interdependence, efficiency, liter,

face, edge, vertices, corner, beside, behind, in front of, left, right

beside, behind, in front of,

left, right)