Sunday, September 28, 2014

New unit of Inquiry- Sharing the Planet

Sharing the Planet

This is our new unit of inquiry for Grade 2/3. We will be starting to tune in for the unit this week. Have a look at what we will be inquiring into. If any of you are experts in this field or have contacts with agencies that support the environment and living things, we would really like them to come and share their knowledge with the students. Please contact any of the Grade 2/3 teachers if you can help. We would also like to use technology to aid our inquiries, so if you have contacts/ experts in environmental systems in other countries that we could either Skype or email please let us know. 
Thanks
Ms Claire

Sharing the Planet

The ways in which human actions impact living things in different environments (

Key Concepts Form, Causation, Responsibility
Related Concepts: interdependence, sustainability, environment

Lines of Inquiry

·       Living things and their natural environments (form)
·       The ways in which human actions impact living things in different environments (causation)
·       Sustainable choices we can make (responsibility)

Teacher Questions

1. What are different environments? (Form) 
2. What do humans and other living things need? (Form
3. How do our choices/ attitudes impact other living things and their environments? (Causation)
4. What sustainable choices can be taken ? (Responsibility)

12 comments:

  1. I think that this unit is about how humans make the environment dirty and how we can save it. We are going to work with NGO that support the environment , for this unit i think we are going to have lots of field trip because we are going to see the environment . We will see how humans effect the earth.We will also try to take action.
    lyka

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  2. I think this unit of inquiry is going to be about what does human living needs, having pictures in our mind, habitats,think what you write about and animals.

    vorleak

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  3. I think this unit is about sharing our planet, Animals and what human need to survive.Because i had a picture in my head,Of animals, sharing our planet and what human need to survive.I think I am gonna enjoy this unit.Maya.

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  4. I think this unit is going to be about habitats or animals because of what the words say with the dots. I think our teacher will tell us about how animals live and were animals live. Or our teacher will tell us were most things will live. I think our unit is about habitats or animals. Signe

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  5. I think this unit is going to be about habitats and human impacts on it. Why I think this is because it is talking about environment and what humans are doing to destroy it so living things cant live on that environment.

    Estela

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  6. I think the new unit is about sharing the planet because it says environment and living things.Because sharing the planet is about the environment also living things because sharing the planet means things.Such as humans,animal,insect,mammals also nature.I think we are going to learn about how people are damaging the environment and how people are taking action to help.I think we are having a trip to a river to see things people are throwing in it.I notice plastic is one of the things people throw in.People throw such things as plastic like plastic bottles or sometimes they throw paper,trash and garbage.
    Panhaboth

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  7. I think this unit is about taking care of the earth

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  8. I thin this unit is about planet and it will be a lot of fun.

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  9. I think that this unit is going to be about animals and habitats and because they are living things,I think we need to share the planet with everyone. Everyone needs shelter, oxygen, and food and water and wood. Seo Young

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  10. I think that the new unit is going to be about sharing the planet because it says environment in the sentences.I think that we will go to field trip to the river to see if people are throwing garbage at the river.Tommy






















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  11. I think the unit is sharing the planet is helpful because it talking about the environment andRRR mean recycle,reduce, r it also talking about animal,fishes and insect and many other thing and it also about.
    Sak

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  12. I think this unit is about how human share the planet with others. Humans need money, food and a place to live. I think learning about sharing the planet would be fun. Wajiha

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