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2008 – 2009
Early Years
| Grade 1 | ||||
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| Reduce, Reuse, Recycle | What’s the Matter | From Field to Table | Traditional Tales | Now and Then |
| Central Idea: Our personal choices can change our environment. |
Central Idea: Matter has properties you can discover through investigations. |
Central Idea: Most of the food products we eat go through several stages from their origin to their consumption. |
Central Idea: People use traditional tales to explore feelings, explain the world or entertain. |
Central Idea: We can compare how people lived in the past with the way we live now. |
| Inquiry into: The packaging and decomposition of different materials and how they can be reused. |
Inquiry into: The states, properties and physical changes of matter. |
Inquiry into: The growing and production of breakfast foods. |
Inquiry into: Different version of traditional tales and their characteristics. |
Inquiry into: How different the world of today is in terms of living, playing and education from people in our past. |
| Grade 2 | ||||
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| Poetry | Simple Machine | Beyond My Back Yard | Airport | Rainforest |
| Central Idea: People can express beliefs and values through literature. |
Central Idea: Simple machines allow us to do work without expending much physical energy. |
Central Idea: People can orient themselves in space by using maps. |
Central Idea: All human systems have an interdependent relationship. |
Central Idea: Ecological systems affect living and non-living things and can be affected by them. |
| Inquiry into: The different forms and structures of poetry. How to use poetry to communicate effectively and the power of poetry. |
Inquiry into: The attributes and uses of simple machines and how they have evolved. |
Inquiry into: Of different kinds of maps and their uses and the rules of map making. |
Inquiry into: How an airport works |
Inquiry into: How an eco system works, life in an eco system and the importance of preserving the rain forest. |
| Grade 3 | ||||
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| Inventions | Finite Resources (Water) | Ancient Egypt | Beneath Our Feet | Biography – Real Life Heroes |
| Central Idea: Inventions impact on history. |
Central Idea: Our planet has limited resources that are unevenly distributed. |
Central Idea: Artefacts provide us with clues to how we lived in the past. |
Central Idea: People’s lives are shaped by the regions in which they live. |
Central Idea: We express our ideas, hopes and values through our choice of heroes. |
| Inquiry into: The need for inventions and the people who invented them. |
Inquiry into: The use and abuse of water, its distribution and availability. |
Inquiry into: The life of an archaeologist. |
Inquiry into: The world’s landforms and how they change. |
Inquiry into: The qualities that make a hero, how our choice of heroes reflect our values, past and present heroes and the difference between being famous and being a hero. |
Primary School Units of Study 2008 – 2009
Intermediate Years
| Grade 4 | ||||
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| Human Body | Myths, Legends | Ancient Greece | Planets | Media and Advertisement |
| Central Idea: Different systems are at work to support life functions of human beings. |
Central Idea: People use their imagination to create myths and legends for entertainment, for exploring feelings and for explaining the world. |
Central Idea: Ancient Civilizations had systems of organizations. |
Central Idea: The Earth and its atmosphere are surrounded by space and are part of a vast complex universe. |
Central Idea: Society’s needs and wants can be manipulated by advertising and media. |
| Inquiry into: The muscular, skeletal, nervous circulatory and intergumentary systems in the human body. |
Inquiry into: Myths and legends around the world. |
Inquiry into: The social and governmental organisation of daily life in Ancient Athens and Sparta. |
Inquiry into: The theories of the origins of the earth and our solar system and the exploration of space. |
Inquiry into: The impact of advertising on society. |
| Grade 5 | ||||
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| Soaring Into Literature | Geography | Immigration | The Belief System | Exhibition |
| Central Idea: Literature has the power to influence and structure thinking. |
Central Idea: Humans have adapted to a variety of climatic and geographic conditions. |
Central Idea: People migrate for a variety of reasons. |
Central Idea: All human societies have beliefs and value systems. |
Central Idea: A personal student inquiry into an issue that they care deeply about. |
| Inquiry into: Critically evaluating individual choices in books and distinguishing features for commendable literature. |
Inquiry into: The range of geographic and climatic conditions that exist on earth and how geographers describe them. A comparison of the ways different groups people meet their basic needs in a variety of climatic and geographic conditions, and how humans interact with different environments. |
Inquiry into: Why people migrate and the impact of migration. |
Inquiry into: Why people do/ or do not adhere to a religion? Why religions exist? How the different belief systems can coexist and how this affects society? Similarities and differences. |
Inquiry into: |
Units of Study – 2008 - 2009
| Grade 6 | |||
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| Math | Science | Humanities | Language Arts |
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Number theory Pre-Algebra Geometry |
Chemistry: Biology: Physics: Science Fair: |
Pre History Early man Mesopotamia Rome |
Narrative writing “Mixed – Up File of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler” or ”How to Eat Fried Worms” “Holes” “Bridge of Terabithia” Book report |
