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Isb Pyp Unit of Inquiry Planning Overview Grade PS

This document provides an overview for a PYP unit of inquiry on community helpers for preschool students. The unit will focus on helping students understand what a community is, what roles community helpers have, and why community helpers are important. Students will develop communication, thinking, research, self-management, and social skills through activities like listening to guest speakers, role playing community helper jobs, using their senses to learn about tools, and working cooperatively in groups. The unit aims to cultivate attitudes of curiosity about community roles and appreciation for community helpers. Assessment will include matching community helpers to their tools and interpreting drawings of helper roles through role play. Parents will be notified about field trips and invited to contribute materials related to their professions

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Isb Pyp Unit of Inquiry Planning Overview Grade PS

This document provides an overview for a PYP unit of inquiry on community helpers for preschool students. The unit will focus on helping students understand what a community is, what roles community helpers have, and why community helpers are important. Students will develop communication, thinking, research, self-management, and social skills through activities like listening to guest speakers, role playing community helper jobs, using their senses to learn about tools, and working cooperatively in groups. The unit aims to cultivate attitudes of curiosity about community roles and appreciation for community helpers. Assessment will include matching community helpers to their tools and interpreting drawings of helper roles through role play. Parents will be notified about field trips and invited to contribute materials related to their professions

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ISB PYP UNIT OF INQUIRY PLANNING OVERVIEW

Grade PS

TRANSDISCIPLINARY THEME: How we organize ourselves


DESCRIPTION: An inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities;
the structure and function of organizations; societal decision-making; economic activities and their
impact on humankind and the environment.
UNIT TITLE: Community Helpers GRADE: PS2 JD, LO, SF,
SUBJECT FOCUS: Social Studies DURATION: Nov-Dec 09 ( 6 weeks)
CENTRAL IDEA: INQUIRY INTO:
Within our community there are people who • What a community is
help us • What community helpers do and why

TRANSDISCIPLINARY SKILLS , ATTITUDES, LEARNER PROFILE ATTIRUBUTES to be


taught within the Unit of Inquiry
Communication Skills
-Listening to information: guest speakers, special visitors, field trips
-Expressing ideas orally
-Viewing a variety of materials related to Community Helpers (viewing and presenting)
-Presenting information through pictures, drawn or painted
-Discussing observations
Knowledge/Thinking Skills
-Gaining relevant facts, information and vocabulary
- Using art, drama and role-playing to express an understanding of the central idea.
Research Skills
-Using the five senses to gain information –being exposed to different kinds of tools and learning
how community helpers use them. (e.g.: stethoscopes, gauze, band-Aid, etc…)
-Working towards independently gathering information
-Using graphs to record information
Self Management Skills
Using small and large muscles to model, act out and dramatize various jobs that Community
Helpers do
-Safely engaging in personal behaviour that avoids placing oneself or others in danger or at risk
Social Skills
-Listening attentively and respectfully to guest speakers and visitors
-Adopting a variety of roles in a group setting
Attitudes
Curiosity – Being curious about the world, its people and different jobs they do in the community
Appreciation – Appreciating the wonder and beauty of the world and its people.
Learner Profile focus
Caring: Realizing that communities provide helping services for our families
Inquirer: Seeking to know more about the roles and tools of community helpers
Risk-taker: Trying out a variety of roles; presenting information about a community helper to the
rest of the class
Specialist Integration (Music, German, Physical Education)

PE- The children will practice their climbing and “rescuing” skills (such as balancing on beams,
climbing rungs and climbing over and under obstacles) also an action game to incorporate
movement from other community helpers.
ISB PYP UNIT OF INQUIRY PLANNING OVERVIEW
Grade PS
Music – The children will perform a “fire ballet”, a movement activity depicting the outbreak of a fire
and its extinguishing, with some children portraying the fire and some the fire fighters.

German – The children will learn the vocabulary of community helper roles and tools in German
through songs, stories and role playing.

Assessment of the Understanding of the Skills and Concepts Taught within the Unit:

The children will be asked to play a game, matching pictures of helpers with the tools they use,
both at the beginning and at the end of the unit. The children will also be asked several times to
draw and interpret their understanding of how community helpers carry out their roles. The
children will be observed role playing to assess how much they understand about particular
community helper roles and how well they interpret them.

NOTES TO PARENTS: (important dates, project information, etc.)

Classes will organize field trips according to the main interests in their classes (e.g., doctor’s office, post
office, fire station, etc.) Each class will send out relevant notification.

Parents are invited to contribute materials relating to their professions ( e.g., medical supplies like syringes,
surgery masks). While the community helpers will vary from classroom to classroom, common helpers will
include doctors, nurses, firefighters, mail deliverers, and construction workers).

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