An investigation into student-led development of personal lines of inquiry.
Tag Archives | lines of inquiry
Exploring perspectives through technology
This article illustrates how grade 3 students explored different perspectives about technology, and developed their digital literacy and conceptual understanding of the term ‘perspectives’.
Behind the scenes – Learning experiences for parents
This article describes opportunities for parents of the PYP students to gain first-hand knowledge about units of inquiry.
The Blank Planner Project – Collaborative planning on technology unit
Imagine beginning day one of a unit of inquiry with nothing but a blank planner. Learn how two grade 5 teachers pushed the limits of inquiry-based design by planning, communicating and implementing a completely student-developed unit of inquiry event with collaborative input from parents, students and administration.
Encourage your students to plan the unit of inquiry
This article shows how to plan a unit of inquiry from the student perspective facilitating the same process that teachers undertake.
My first collaborative meeting
This article describes experiences from the first collaborative meeting based on listening, expressing, collaborating and implementing ideas.
Making cycles of inquiry that fit your purpose
Even though inquiry cycles help us involve students and lead them toward understanding, they are often linear formulas that may still feel like an imposition to some students. Perhaps we, as teachers, can come up with our own version to engage students with a more open and flexible process, one that better suits the learner’s […]
Assessing students’ artwork – Collaboration between visual arts and music
Based on an example from grade 5 How we organize ourselves unit of inquiry, a visual arts teacher describes how she and music teachers collaborate on assessment strategies tools.
The power of student reflection
This article shows fifth graders reflecting on learning experiences during their first unit of inquiry of the school year, How we express ourselves.
Exhibition differentiation
This article illustrates differentiated instruction and assessment for a PYP exhibition.
Dancing in the dark
This video shows a physical education/art integration for grade 3/4 students. It is a movement unit that involved light painting and fire dancing.
Empowering students and giving them ownership
This article looks at students taking full ownership of the inquiry process from primary years all the way up to grade 5.
Transdisciplinary theme and the exhibition
This article shares how a PYP school explored Grade 5 students choosing their own transdisciplinary theme for the exhibition.