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Year Six 2015 PYP Exhibition

The Year Six

Miss Keays Mrs Smith Mrs Jones Mr McMahon

Exhibition Timeline

Week Task Due Date Done

1

Immersion Engagements Immersion Engagements 17th July

Essential Agreement

Compose and sign your Essential Agreement that includes a

statement for each attitude

17th July

2

Group Reflection

Reflection and group inquiry selection

24th July

Central Idea Reflection Tagxedo 24th July

Individual Responsibility

Complete the responsibility Pie Chart

24th July

3

Group Write your lines of Inquiry 31st July

Individual Key Concepts 31st July

Individual Formulate your questions using the Lotus Chart 31st July

4

Individual Reflection on Transdisciplinary Skills 7th August

Group Matrix 7th August

Mentor Mentor

meeting/planning/resourcing Weekly Journal

7th August

5

Group Planning and Development 14th August

Group Lights, Camera, Action 14th August

Mentor Mentor

meeting/planning/resourcing Weekly Journal

14th August

6 Group Planning and Development 21st August

Mentor Mentor meeting Weekly Journal 21st August

7 Individual Planning and Development 28th August

Mentor Mentor meeting/resourcing Weekly Journal 28th August

8 Individual Planning and Development 4th September

Mentor Mentor meeting/resourcing Weekly Journal 4th September

9

Group/Individual Presenting Your Knowledge 8th September

Parent/Individual Parent Exhibition Sheet 8th September

Everyone EXHIBITION 10th September

10

Mentor Mentor reflection and rubrics 18th September

Individual/Group KTK planning session 16th September

Group/Individual Kids Teaching Kids Workshops 18th September

Useful Hints and Tips!

BEFORE YOU START WORKING:

1. Make sure you understand the task and what is to be completed. Ask the teacher all questions before you start to work.

2. If working in a group, discuss the task to make sure all members understand what is to be done. 3. List everything that must be done to complete the task, don't worry about what is the most important yet. 4. Prioritize your tasks. On your list, number the tasks in order of importance. Rewrite the list if necessary.

Make sure the tasks can be completed in a timely manner - do not have a task that is next to impossible to complete in the time allotted.

5. If working in a group, delegate responsibilities. Divide up the tasks as equally as possible and assign people jobs that best complement their strengths (for example: give the artist of the group the drawing tasks).

6. Plan what needs to be finished and when. Individually or as a group, set deadlines so as not to get stuck or in a rut on a particular task.

LET’S GO ALREADY!

1. Once you have your personal list of priorities, start on the most important one. If it is a larger task, divide it into smaller ones.

2. As you finish a task, cross it off your list. This will give you a sense of accomplishment and show that you are really making progress.

3. Concentrate only on the task at hand. Do not be distracted by the other items to be completed; you will get to them later.

4. Put yourself into an environment that suits your working style. If you need to isolate yourself from your fellow students to work efficiently, do it! Put distracting items away or move away from them.

5. Once you have finished a task, move on to the next one. You can go back and make small changes later. TIPS TO AVOID PROCRASTINATION:

1. Don't draw out the planning process; just get it done and start working. 2. Complete the task and move on, don't be a perfectionist. Go back to it if you have time later. 3. If it is not the most exciting task, don't let boredom distract you. An even better reason to get it done. Show

some self-discipline. 4. Putting a task off until the last minute can result in the task being incomplete or of a lesser quality. It can also

affect tasks that require the completion of an earlier item. In the end, don't procrastinate. TIPS FOR SUCCESS:

1. Take on only what you can handle in the time allotted. If you get overwhelmed with too much work, you might just decide to give up.

2. If you can't work efficiently with friends, then don't. It is always tempting to talk with your friends about the latest movie, what your did last weekend, or who likes who, but save those conversations for lunch, break, or recess!

3. Make sure your goals are realistic. This works two ways, don't make them too difficult or too easy. 4. Never lose site of the end product. While completing the individual tasks, remember they are part of a larger

assignment. 5. Know what you are looking for. When doing research, avoid wasting time by knowing exactly what you are

trying to find.

Useful Hints and Tips! (Continued)

x Plan your Exhibition space. Think about how it will look and what the layout will be. Think

about space, wall space and eye catching ideas.

x Make sure all of your group members are active and productive. Help each other to gain a good understanding of each other’s tasks and information.

x Keep organised and keep communicating with all of the other members of your group. Support each other and do your best to cooperate.

x Keep your Exhibition Journal up to date and read it regularly. It will help you to stay focused on the Key Concepts and Central Idea.

x Reflect on your progress and make sure that you are proud of it! Think about ways to make your tasks more memorable and informative.

x Use your class teacher and mentor to answer questions and get feedback. They will be useful in guiding you on your way.

x Be focused on solutions not problems. Be independent and responsible, being determined to tackle obstacles that may get in the way.

x Edit and check your work very carefully. Spelling or Grammatical errors should not be your teachers or group member’s responsibility.

x Save your work regularly and keep it in a safe place that is accessible to all group members!

x Take the time each week to look back on your selected Transdisciplinary Skills. Think of ways that you can work on these during the Exhibition.

x Revise and rehearse individually and with group members. It is VERY important that you are well planned and as confident as possible

Enjoy yourself and be proud of your achievements!

You are capable of AMAZING things! -��

My Personal Essential Agreement An Essential Agreement reminds us that our behaviour and attitude is an important aspect of ensuring that we are motivated to do our best at all times. It is important that you feel proud of who you are and what you can achieve both personally and as a team.

Below are the PYP Attitudes- these are attributes that you demonstrate on a daily basis both at school and in your lives at home and in the community. Use these as a guide to help you write your own ‘Exhibition Essential Agreement’

I agree to the following statements that will help me to achieve my best throughout the Year Six Exhibition.

Tolerance

Appreciation

Commitment

Independence

Confidence

Cooperation

Creativity

Curiosity

Integrity

RESPECT

Empathy

Enthusiasm

Year Six Signature............................ Teacher Signature............................ Date...............

TRANSDISCIPLINARY THEME

HOW WE SHARE THE PLANET

CENTRAL IDEA

As you know, the Central Idea is the ‘Big Idea’ at the centre of a Unit of Inquiry. It is an enduring understanding that could be explored in depth at any age or ability. It is challenging and engaging, covering a range of big ideas and concepts.

Formative Reflection

What do you think this Central Idea means? What does this Central Idea make you think of? What words don’t you understand? What do we mean by this Central Idea? What are the meanings of these words? Do you agree with this Central Idea?


Immersion Engagements

Immersion Engagements are created and designed to get you thinking about the Central Idea and some of the important issues, concepts, ideas and problems at the centre of the Unit of Inquiry. To get the most out of these Learning Engagements you may need to stay focused by using some of the PYP Attitudes and Learner Profile.

Learning Engagement Something I learnt I’m still thinking about


Reflection and Group Inquiry Selection

Which immersion engagement did you find most interesting? Why? .................................................................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................................................. Which immersion engagements did you learn the least from? Why? ................................................................................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................................................ What did the immersion engagements get you thinking about? Why? .................................................................................................................................................................................. ................................................................................................................................................................................. ................................................................................................................................................................................. What do you think people should know more about? Why .................................................................................................................................................................................. ..................................................................................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................................................................................. What 3 specific issues/problems would you like to explore further? .................................................................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................................................. ..................................................................................................................................................................................

Year Six Signature............................................................... Date.......................................

Teacher Signature............................................................... Date.......................................

My Selected Exhibition Inquiry

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Group Members

Key Concept: Responsibility

In our ‘How We Share The Planet’ Unit of Inquiry, our Key Concept is Responsibility. All children in Year Six will be thinking about their responsibilities and what we are responsible for at school, home, in the community, our country and our world. As responsible global citizens we can take action to make a difference.

The Year Six Exhibition is a time to celebrate and extend your thinking and learning. Who is responsible for your learning? Who can help you to reach your goals and contribute to your successes? Who plays an important role in your learning?

Create a Pie Chart in the circle below with the people that you think are most responsible for your learning. You may include one, some or all of the ideas below.

My Comments

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FRIENDS FAMILY TEACHER PARENTS ME

Lines of Inquiry Each Unit of Inquiry has three to four Lines of Inquiry. Your group will write their own Lines of Inquiry for the Exhibition. Your Lines of Inquiry should...

x Be broad and easy to understand x Help to explore the Central Idea x Focus on specific areas of Inquiry x Deepen your understandings x Connect with each other through the Central Idea

Your Lines of Inquiry 1. ..............................................................................................

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Reflection

How do you feel about your Inquiry? Do some interest you more than others? Which ones help you understand the Central Idea? Which ones are more challenging? ............................................................................................................................. ..................

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Inquiry Questions

Inquiry questions are important because they help to guide our Inquiry and research. Before we begin to inquire, we need to know what we want to find out or discover. Inquiry questions need to...

x Be interesting an engaging

x Link closely with the Lines of Inquiry

x Be open ended with room to evolve

x Unable to be answered quickly

x Explore the Central Idea

x Direct us to detailed and thoughtful answers

Use the Lotus Diagram to help you formulate your questions. You may not have eight.

Line of Inquiry Line of Inquiry

Line of Inquiry Line of Inquiry

**Highlight the questions that each member of your group will be responsible for**

I am happy with the Inquiry questions that my group have formulated


Key Concepts

For every Unit of Inquiry that we do at Benton we have explored big ideas and understandings. These are what we know as Key Concepts. There are 8 Key Concepts that encourage a wide range of thinking and questioning skills. They are like lenses that help us to explore information in different ways.

The Key Concepts are used to help focus our Inquiry questions and provide us with a variety of ways to explore our broad and interesting questions. Use the table below to identify the Key Concepts that are evident in your questions. You will need to be CREATIVE and OPEN-MINDED when linking the Key Concepts to your Inquiry questions. Try and limit yourself to two Key Concepts per question.

Inquiry Question Key Concept


What is our responsibility?

How is it connected to other things?

What are the points of view?

Why is it like it is?

How does it work?

How do we know?

How is it changing?

What is it like?

Transdisciplinary Skills Throughout your Primary School years you have grown as a learner, developing your own individual talents and skills. These skills are not just important in Year Six, but also for Secondary School and life-long learning. These valuable skills are used across all area s of your learning. The Exhibition is a great opportunity to focus on these skills. There will be time for you to showcase the skills that you are already good at and also opportunity for you to develop skills that you would like to improve throughout the duration of the Exhibition. The Transdisciplinary Skills are broken up into five different groups:

Transdisciplinary Skill Area Details

THINKING SKILLS

*Comprehension * Analysis *Evaluation *Dialectical Thought *Application *Acquisition of Knowledge

SOCIAL SKILLS

*Adapting to a variety of roles *Cooperation *Accepting responsibility *Resolving conflict *Group decision making *Respecting others

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

* Listening *Speaking *Reading *Writing Non-Verbal

SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Gross Motor Skills *Fine Motor Skills *Organisation *Time management *Making informed choices *Codes of behaviour *Safety *Spatial Awareness *Healthy lifestyle

RESEARCH SKILLS

*Formulating Questions *Observing *Planning *Collecting data *Recording data *Organising data *Interpreting data *Presenting research


Transdisciplinary Skills

This table covers a wide range of skills that will enhance your learning and development. We will be focussing on these as the unit progresses, monitoring areas for improvement and celebrating successes. You should be extremely proud the skills that you already bring with you to the Exhibition. It is equally as important to be reflective on the skills that you would like to improve upon and develop further over the duration of the unit. Reflection Question: What skills do you think you are really good at? Why?

Skill Reason/Evidence

Reflection Question: What skills would you like to improve on? Why?

Skill Action/Goal

Year Six Signature.............................. Teacher Signature.............................. Date...............

Planning your Inquiry Where can we find all of the resources and materials that we need? ............................................................................................................................. .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................. Who might have useful information? .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ................ What kind of learning experiences might help our Inquiries? ............................................................................................................................. .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .............................................................................................................................................................

What are the key words in our Lines of Inquiry and questions? .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ................ What are you most excited about at this stage of the Exhibition journey? ............................................................................................................................. .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .............................................................................................................................................................

I am ready to move forward with my inquiry and I have some good ideas of where to find some information and ideas. Year Six Signature.............................. Teacher Signature.............................. Date...............

Inquiry Tips and Recommendations

x Choose sources and resource materials carefully. Not everything including Wikipedia is reliable and current.

x Accessing information from a variety of sources can improve the quality of your Exhibition.

x Follow up all sources; a reference book might have a useful bibliography, the person that you interview might have some interesting ideas or a website might lead to other resources.

x ALWAYS write down the source of your information

9�A printed text: record the author(s), title, publisher and date of publication

9�A website: record the website address

9�An interview: record the name, address, role of the person and the date

9�A work of art/photo/song: record the title, artist and reference

9�A television show/multimedia clip: record the title, date, channel

x Communicate with each member of your group to keep them informed and enthusiastic

x Make sure every member of your group is contributing and doing their best

x Take the time to carefully read resources, taking notes of the main points

x Gathering quality information is often better than gathering a large quantity of information

PLEASE KEEP ALL OF YOUR INFORMATION AS THIS WILL COUNT TOWARDS YOUR ASSESSMENT

Weekly Reflection Journal Reflection is an extremely important part of any Unit of Inquiry. Reflecting constructively on your progress throughout the Exhibition will be useful for you, your group and your teachers. Making weekly journal entries about all of your ideas, challenges, skills, decisions and actions will keep you on task. It will be a detailed record of your progress that will document the work you have been doing, as well as showing how your understanding of the issue is evolving. Journal reflections are listed in the timeline and will be read by your teachers as well as your mentors and parents. Please make sure that you work hard to keep your journal up to date.

WEEKLY JOURNAL REFLECTION Week............................. Complete each section of your Journal reflection to highlight your achievements throughout the week.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Communication

Skills Self Management

Skills

Research Skills

Social Skills

Thinking Skills Understanding of

your issue

Inquiry Question 1

Inquiry Question 2

What new knowledge have you acquired this week?

Have you encountered any problems in your inquiries this week?

What has been the highlight for the week?

What do you want to achieve next?


WEEKLY REFLECTION

MENTOR MEETING NOTES Date.............................

You will be assigned a Mentor and will need to meet with them over the course of your inquiry.

Please fill in this chart as you meet with your mentor.

Mentor:

Venue:

Time:

Meeting Goals

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Issues that need to be addressed: Mentor Comments: Other Information:

Attitudes

Throughout the year children will actively display the following attitudes during their learning

- Appreciation - Confidence - Cooperation - Creativity - Curiosity - Commitment - Empathy - Enthusiasm - Integrity - Respect - Tolerance - Independence

Learner Profile

Benton learners are: - Inquirers - Open Minded - Risk Takers - Thinkers - Knowledgeable - Communicators - Principled - Balanced - Reflective - Caring

Personal Essential Agreement Your picture

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Kids Teaching Kids Group Workshop

Taking Responsible Action

An important part of any Unit of Inquiry is being able to share your new understandings and finding with your peers. A great way to share this knowledge is to teach it to them! This is taking responsible action! Each group is required to create a 30minute workshop informing other children in your Mentor’s class about the key understandings from your inquiry. Some of your creative exhibition tasks may be appropriate to use as part of your workshop. However, you will have to work as a team to write a detailed workshop that shares important knowledge and ideas from all of your group members. The format of each workshop will be different depending on your group members and their ideas. Each workshop will consist of a small variety of tasks, events or activities. Here are some ideas...

A short play A news report A word game

A PowerPoint A quiz Rotations

YouTube clip Game show Short speech

Comprehension task Role play Simulation

Puzzle Art activity Demonstration

Photostory Graffiti reflection Experiment

You might have your own fantastic ideas to add. Ask your teacher if you need help to find some that will be appropriate for your group. Think about....

x How you like to learn and what helps you to learn

x How you will introduce your workshop and how you will end it

x What you can cover in the 30 minute time limit

x The skills and talents of your group members

x What information and knowledge is important to share

x Who your audience is and what they would find interesting and engaging

x What will make your workshop stand out and be impressive?

Kids Teaching Kids Group Workshop

Presentation Plan

Activity/Event/Task Estimated Time Who?

Things I need to help to organise? ...............................................................................................................................................................................

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............................................................................................................................................................................... Task that I think that will be most impressive and informative? ...............................................................................................................................................................................

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Communication


Skills

Research Skills

Social Skills


your issue

Inquiry Question 1

Inquiry Question 2





Year Six Signature........................... Teacher Signature........................... Date...............

WEEKLY REFLECTION




Mentor:

Venue:

Time:

Meeting Goals

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Lights...Camera...Action Having spent the duration of the Exhibition into the actions of others, it is important that we take time to reflect and recognise that we, as responsible global citizens have many opportunities to take action.

Action! *Extends your learning beyond the classroom *Can be large or small *Can be individual or as part of a group *Is voluntary *Provides direct or indirect service/assistance *May be short or long term Think about how you could take ACTION as a result of your inquiry...

Lights...Camera...Action

Which of these actions would you take? ..................................................................................................................................................................................

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.................................................................................................................................................................................. Why do you think taking action in the Exhibition is important? ................................................................................................................................................................................... .................................................................................................................................................................................

At home This week This year At school With

Friends In the

Community

Year Six Signature........................... Teacher Signature........................... Date............... WEEKLY JOURNAL REFLECTION Week............................. Complete each section of your Journal reflection to highlight your achievements throughout the week.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Communication


Skills

Research Skills

Social Skills


your issue

Inquiry Question 1

Inquiry Question 2






WEEKLY REFLECTION

MENTOR MEETING NOTES

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Mentor:

Venue:

Time:

Meeting Goals

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Parent Exhibition Interview Parents play an integral role in the PYP Exhibition by supporting and encouraging you throughout the process. In the week before the Exhibition, please take the time to sit down with one or both of your parents to discuss your journey with your parents. What is a Year Six Exhibition?

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Year Six 2015 PYP Exhibition - cpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com · Group Reflection Reflection and group inquiry ... Below are the PYP Attitudes- these are ... For every Unit of Inquiry that