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IB PYP UNIT OF INQUIRY EXPLORING EXPLORERS: WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE & TIME

IB PYP UNIT OF INQUIRY EXPLORING EXPLORERS: WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE & TIME

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Inquiry is all about exploring and this complete IB PYP unit of inquiry is all about exploring explorers! The additional concepts include exploration, investigation, discovery and impact. With over 140 pages filled with activities, this printable packet is a complete, transdisciplinary unit filled with engaging, hands on lessons, interactive notebook activities and research based inquiries. UK & USA spelling included.
The central idea is :
Exploration from the past, present and future can change the way people live.
The theme is Where We Are in Place and Time.
Lines of inquiry:
•Exploration over place and time.
• What developments discovered by explorers brought about change in society over time?
•Responsibilities of explorers and settlers
Within this complete transdisciplinary unit of inquiry, you will find pre-assessments, provocations, formative assessment and summative assessment, along with on-going reflections for goal-setting & portfolios. I have included lesson suggestions for all of the activities, worksheets and interactive notebook tasks including a 6 week layout of how the unit could be paced.
Strands covered include:
  • Research Skills: Primary and secondary sources, framing an inquiry, developing independent inquiries
  • Math: distance and direction, scale, coordinates, polygons
  • STEM: observing sailing vessels, design, build and trial, discovery vehicles across time
  • Non fiction literacy: skills: compare & contrast, cause and effect, writing; biographies
  • Geography: continents, oceans and compass points, mapping skills
  • History: Explorers across time, The Spanish in the Americas,
  • Art and craft activities related to biography writing and mapping

The explorers include:
Christopher Columbus, Lief Eriksson, Cortez, Neil Armstrong, Ferdinand Magellan, Roald Amunsden, James Cook, Captain Scott, Mae Jemison and more.
If you like this, you may be interested in my other complete units of inquiry in my stores which include Revolutions and Revolutionaries, Rainforests, Animal Adaptations, Poetry, Media Impact, Extreme Weather and many more.
Enjoy!
Susan Powers
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