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Mathematics
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Language
Mathematics
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‣ What are the ways stories can ‣ What is a pattern?
‣ What does it feel like?
‣ What part does literature play ‣ How does the scale on a graph ‣ What can you use shadows for?

be told?
‣ How can we describe these ‣ Where do we get the food we in the development of a work?
‣ How do seeds fit into the
‣ What are the parts of a book?
shapes?
eat?
culture?
‣ What happens if we keep growth cycle of plants?

‣ What languages do we use at ‣ What is a fraction?
‣ If the earth were cut in half ‣ Why do we name things?
adding?
‣ How is air being used around
our school?
‣ How can we describe time? what would it look like?
‣ How do languages work?
‣ What are shapes used for?
us?

‣ What makes this language ‣ What are the parts of an ‣ How do the pictures and the ‣ How can we record time? ‣ What do reservoirs and
unique? ecosystem? text work together? purification plants do?

Social Studies
PSE
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Social Studies
PSE
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‣ What kind of work do people ‣ Which important decisions ‣ What is this movement like?
‣ What rules of behavior did ‣ How do rules help us to play?
‣ How do we collect and record
do?
have you made in the past?
‣ What different shapes can you people adopt?
‣ How are minority groups results?

‣ What are the main occupations ‣ Who works in the school and make on the floor using your ‣ How have people adapted to treated by society?
‣ How do you score points in
of people living in our town?
what do they do?
body?
living here?
‣ Who works in the school and your game?

‣ What is the landscape like?
‣ What are responsibilities? ‣ What are the basic rules in this ‣ How do people celebrate?
what do they do? ‣ How does this movement
‣ What is a map? event or game? ‣ What happens to waste? work?

Drama
Music
Visual Art
Drama
Music
Visual Art

‣ What was the performance ‣ What makes a song a folk ‣ Why have you chosen that ‣ How can you show what you ‣ What sounds can you make ‣ How can you show yourself
about?
song?
material or tool?
are feeling?
with that instrument?
feeling angry / happy / sad /
‣ How might this character ‣ What sounds do you hear in ‣ How would you describe the ‣ How can you create the ‣ What does this sign or this frightened?

move?
this music?
way the elements of art have sounds of the beach using your symbol tell us to sing? ‣ How is color used in
‣ What feelings can we express ‣ What instruments make up an been used in this painting? voice? advertising?
through drama? orchestra?
Form Function

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FORM FUNCTION
What is it like?
How does it work?

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Everything has a form with recognizable features that can be Everything has a purpose, a role, or a way of

observed, identified, described, and categorized. behaving that can be investigated.
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‣ What part does language play ‣ Why is a block the best shape ‣ How can you make a shadow?
‣ How have languages changed ‣ How can we convert from the ‣ How do plants change as they
in cultural identity?
for building a tower?
‣ Why are foods processed?
historically?
12 hour to 24 hour clock?
grow?

‣ Why did the author write the ‣ Why do some calculations ‣ How are houses around the ‣ How do we use language ‣ How can you change one ‣ How do our bodies change
story the way it is?
produce patterns?
world constructed to suit the differently as we grow?
quadrilateral into another?
over time?

‣ Why does the same language ‣ How was the place value local climate?
‣ How have other languages and ‣ What do all patterns have in ‣ In what way does the air differ
develop differently in different system developed? ‣ What causes the universal cultures changed our language? common? from place to place, over time?
places? changes that occur in puberty?

Social Studies
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Social Studies
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‣ What motivates groups to act ‣ How do you feel when things ‣ What is this movement like?
‣ In what ways doe the built ‣ What could you change about ‣ What changes when you
as they do?
do not work out the way you ‣ What different shapes can you environment result from the the way you work with others?
exercise?

‣ What causes certain cultures thought they would?
make on the floor using your natural environment?
‣ How have you changed since ‣ How can you make yourself
to disappear?
‣ What makes you comfortable?
body?
‣ What is the role of technology you were a baby?
into a different shape?

‣ How do conflict and resolution ‣ What are things that can harm ‣ What are the basic rules in this in shaping society?
‣ What could you change in life ‣ What modifications can you
shape society? your body? event or game? ‣ What factors cause migration? to be more balanced? make to traditional games?

Drama
Music
Visual Art
Drama
Music
Visual Art

‣ Why did the characters behave ‣ Why is a steady beat important ‣ Why do you think this piece of ‣ How can constructive criticism ‣ What would happen to a song ‣ Why and how do fashions
in this way?
in and ensemble performance?
art has been made?
improve your performance?
if the tempo went from allegro change over time?

‣ Who was your favorite ‣ What culture do you think this ‣ Why do you think people visit ‣ How does the story begin, to largo?
‣ How has social media
character and why?
music comes from? art galleries?
develop, and end? ‣ How is a musical variation influenced artistic practice?
‣ Why does street art occur? different from a theme?

Causation Change

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CAUSATION CHANGE
Why is it like it is?
How is it changing?

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Things do not just happen. There are causal relationships
Change is the process of movement from one state to another.

at work and actions have consequences. It is universal and inevitable.
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‣ What are the similarities and ‣ How can you use fractions to ‣ What link is there between ‣ How could knowledge of a ‣ Are there different ways of ‣ What can you use shadows for?

differences between languages?
explain musical notation?
time of day and the size of language help us understand explaining this?
‣ How do seeds fit into the
‣ What are the origins of names?
‣ How are 3+4 and 4+3 shadow?
their culture?
‣ How do people calculate in growth cycle of plants?

‣ How are storytelling traditions connected?
‣ What are the similarities and ‣ Why do some books become different cultures?
‣ How is air being used around
linked to culture?
‣ How is area connected to differences between your local bestsellers?
‣ What would make the game us?

‣ How do our experiences allow perimeter? ecosystem and a larger ‣ Which language do you think is fair to all players? ‣ What do reservoirs and
us to connect with stories? ecosystem you have studied? easiest to learn? purification plants do?

Social Studies
PSE
PE
Social Studies
PSE
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‣ What, if any, connections exist ‣ What can we learn by playing?
‣ What differences are there ‣ How do people decide who ‣ What is easy/difficult about ‣ What kind of balance
between society then and ‣ How is our classroom like a between running for speed and they want as a leader?
working together?
equipment do you like to use
today?
home?
running for distance?
‣ What might my lifestyle be if I ‣ How can we understand other and why?

‣ How have natural disasters ‣ How are rights and ‣ How can you work as a group lived in another culture?
people’s point of view and have ‣ What can help you to improve
effected the lives of people?
responsibilities connected? to achieve a common aim?
‣ Why do people have different them understand ours?
your performance in this event
‣ What kinds of beliefs and ‣ How can your body points of view on environment? ‣ How are birthdays celebrated? or game?
values encourage connections? movements show emotions?

Drama
Music
Visual Art
Drama
Music
Visual Art

‣ How is watching a live show ‣ How does the size of the ‣ How does art help us to ‣ Which character did you ‣ Which instruments would you ‣ How do you think this flower
different and/or similar to instrument relate to the pitch celebrate?
identify with and why?
choose to play this pattern or would look if you were the size
watching television?
of the instrument?
‣ What do the colors and shapes ‣ How do you think that song with and why?
of an ant?

‣ How can we find out about ‣ In what types of celebrations remind you of? character is feeling now? ‣ How does this music make you ‣ How does someone’s culture
our past through stories? would you hear music? feel? influence the work they
produce?
Connection Perspective

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CONNECTION PERSPECTIVE
How is it connected to other things?
What are the points of view?

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We live in a world of interacting systems in which the
Knowledge is moderated by perspectives. Different perspectives
actions of any individual element affect others. lead to different interpretations, understandings and findings.
Perspectives may be individual, group, cultural or disciplinary.
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‣ How can the use of language ‣ What makes your answer ‣ What things should we do to ‣ What kind of messages do ‣ How do you know you are ‣ What do you think happens to
influence people?
reasonable?
care for our classroom plants?
authors try to convey to correct?
your body during exercise and
‣ How should we treat people ‣ Why the measurement need ‣ How can we not waste water?
readers?
‣ Which way works best? Why?
after exercise?

who speak different languages?
to be accurate?
‣ What should we do to be ‣ Have I “painted a pictures with ‣ Why are our estimates realistic?
‣ How has space exploration
‣ Why are there some books or ‣ How have you collected all the healthy?
words” in my story?
‣ What could you do differently influenced our daily lives?
websites that we are not relevant data? ‣ What factors do you need to ‣ Do illustrations add to if you repeated the survey?
allowed to read? consider when designing a car? understanding?

Social Studies
PSE
PE
Social Studies
PSE
PE

‣ Why should we care about the ‣ What can we do to help us ‣ How can you use the ideas and ‣ What makes one historical ‣ How do we identify potentially ‣ How can you evaluate your
past?
stay safe?
skills of everyone?
resource better than another?
unsafe situations?
performance?

‣ What does it mean to be a ‣ How can you be a responsible ‣ How can you move safely ‣ What stereotypes do we have ‣ How do I know I am growing ‣ Why is it necessary to create a
World Citizen?
member of a group?
around the space?
about this place?
and changing?
space in a dance?

‣ What rights should all children ‣ What rights and responsibilities ‣ Why do you need to warm up ‣ Which primary sources have ‣ How have you been influenced ‣ How would you change the
have?
do I have as I grow and change? before exercising? we used to gather data? by your family story? rules of the game?
‣ How is conflict resolved?

Drama
Music
Visual Art
Drama
Music
Visual Art

‣ In what ways can you help the ‣ What can each musician in a ‣ Who do you need to speak to ‣ How can you show what you ‣ Did you make a good choice of ‣ Are these materials the best
group complete the task?
group do to make a good and involve in this project?
have learned?
instruments or sounds sources ones for your task and why?

‣ What did you feel when you performance?
‣ Which materials do you think ‣ How can we solve a problem for your piece? Why or why ‣ What makes an interesting
were playing that character? ‣ How can we look after this can be recycled into art? Why?
when we have different points not?
design?

instrument? ‣ How do I care for the art of view? ‣ Why is the tempo of this song ‣ How do you know it is art?
room? appropriate for the mood and
Responsibility the words of the piece? Reflection

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RESPONSIBILITY REFLECTION
What is our responsibility?
How do we know?

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People make choices based on their understandings and the There are different ways of knowing. It is important to reflect on
actions they take as a result do make a difference. our conclusions, to consider our methods of reasoning, and the
quality and reliability of the evidence we have considered.