Here's a fun activity that could be done at anytime of the year to introduce or review the PYP concepts with your class. My co-teacher, the awesome Audrey Pagoli shared it in our collaborative planning meeting and I fell in love! It's a great way for the students to look at one thing through the different lenses that the PYP Concepts provide. It can also be used with just about anything across the curriculum. Here, I used it as a whole-class activity to look at our class stuffy, Domo...it's a bit messy and my whiteboard marker stopped working...but you get the idea!
This was a great activity to kick off our Who We Are unit and as an "introduce yourself" task at the beginning of the school year. I am also feeling this as the cover page for student portfolios:
My other Grade 4 partner in crime, Kristi Wheeldon, took this activity and used it to explore materials and matter in our current unit, How the World Works. I really appreciate activities that can be used across curriculum areas and can be easily pulled out of the PYP toolbox.
Attached is a very generic copy of Exploring the Key Concepts. However, it is a very simple thing to whip up a 3X3 table and tweak it to suit what you are doing. Happy exploring!
| exploring_key_concepts.pdf |
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