IB PYP Community Research Skills Inquiry for Little Kids

Bring inquiry research skills into practice for your lower grades with this highly-engaging, concept based activity that is perfect for any IB PYP or inquiry-based classroom, as you investigate community, relationships and interdependence. With mapping skills included, you have EVERYTHING (map, images, text, graphic organisers) you need in this complete research based inquiry project to explicitly teach the fundamental research skills and enable student agency as the children are learning collaboratively. It ends with a fun, eye-catching display of community that the children select for themselves based on interest.  Win-win! Designed for grades K-3. UK & USA spelling included.

Lines of inquiry include:

You will find learning experiences to bring opportunities for explicit teaching and lots of implicit practice for:

It is all covered within this high-engagement inquiry-based learning activity that gets the kids involved in applying their Approaches to Learning skills, integrating maths and reading as they learn about the concepts of adaptation and habitat through the topic of community. It is super easy to implement saving you time.. Kids LOVE this activity It is SO engaging  

 It requires the children to apply their skills to:

It was designed to be used as part of collaborative learning and inclusive assessment experience, however it can absolutely be used for independent work too. You can pick and choose the pages to suit your group of learners.

Provoke wonder with guided inquiry

In groups, the children will decide which community they would like to explore further using the pictures and text to provoke curiosity and frontload information that invites wonder.

 Give them the options. Allow them to choose. Embrace this agency.

With a selection of graphic organisers to support the sub-skills within SEE-THINK-WONDER, data analysis, basic note-taking and reading for information. This enables differentiation, allows struggle to be part of the process, builds upon that collaborative thinking aspect.

You can find many more inquiry based learning tools for little ones in the collection here in my store  and on my blog below

Enjoy

Susan Powers

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