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Category 2 Delivering the MYP curriculum slides.pdf

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UNIT TITLE: Cultural diversity: customs and traditions
MYP year 4
KEY CONCEPT: Culture
RELATED CONCEPTS: context, argument, point of view, empathy
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: Meaningful arguments and opinions can be better reached by considering a variety of contexts.
STATEMENT OF INQUIRY:
Awareness of diverse personal and cultural expressions based on exploring a variety of approaches/sources, often generate intercultural empathy.
INTERDISCIPLINARITY: Visual Arts

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MYP year: 3
Key concept: Communication
Related concepts: Structure and Message
Conceptual understanding: Structuring well your message is very important to have a good level of understanding.
Statement of inquiry: When modernization is communicated by a well structured message, more people are encouraged.
Interdiciplinarity: Sciences and Art.
Summative assessmment:

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Key concept: Communication
Related Concepts: conventions and point of view
Global Context: orientation in space and time / exploration: eras
Conceptual Understanding: language and communication has evolved through time.
SI: point of view influences language conventions and has affected communication throughout the eras.

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KEY CONCEPT: communication
RELATED CONCEPTS: meaning and conventions
CONCEPT UNDERSTANDING: conventions determine the meaning of what is communicated
GLOBAL CONTEXT: globalization and sustainability
GLOBAL CONTEXT EXPLORATION: interconnection
STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: social interconnection modified conventions affecting the meaning of what is COMMUNICATED.

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Title: Penpals
MYP year: 2
Key concept: communication
Related concepts: message, purpose.
Context: Personal and cultural expression.
Exploration: Social construction of reality.
Statement of inquiry: messages can communicate purpose to construct realities.
Interdisciplinary subjects: language and literature. History.
Fact

What makes a message accurate for communication?

Concept

How does a well structured message transmit purpose?

Why/

Debatable

How does the purpose of a message contribute to social construction of reality?

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MYP year: 2nd
Key concept: Creativity
Related concepts: Message, Purpose.
Conceptual understanding: Every act of communication has a purpose.
Statement of inquiry: The way a message is transmitted may determine its power of persuassion.
Interdisciplinarity: Visual Arts
GOAL. Your task is : to create and present an « association solidaire »
The challenge is : to demonstrate that the way a message is transmitted may determine its power of persuassion.
ROLE : You are : the representant of your association
AUDIENCE . You need to convince sponsors to help your association.
PRODUCT/PERFORMANCE AND PURPOSE. You will create an « association solidaire » in order to solve a real social problem in your community. You need to prepare a presentation for your sponsors and a poster to promote your association in the community.
STANDARDS AND CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS. A successful result will obtain the help from the sponsors.
Centre on learners: Students work on their personal interest.
Effective approaches to teaching and learning: They organize themselves and receive personal guiding.
Work within global contexts: They explore a social value.
Explore significant content: They discover a real situation in their community.

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Key concept : Culture
Related concepts : Context
Personal and cultural expressions
Social constructions of reality
Statement of inquiry :The context it is necessary to analyze social constructions of reality, from the Mexican culture .

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KEY CONCEPT: Creativity
RELATED CONCEPTS: purpose and conventions.
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING:
Purpose can be achieved by using creative conventions.
GLOBAL CONTEXT: Identities and relationships.
EXPLORATION: Attitude
STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Creative conventions inspire a change in attitude.
OTHER DISCIPLINE: Language and literature, design, history.

Student centered: Students have freedom in topic and genre to make their own.
Effective approaches to learning and teaching:
Global context: Analyzing the impact of language in attitude and how it affects relationships.
Significant context: How language can be used with a much deeper purpose.

Evaluation: In order for the student to communicate with a sense of an audience and purpose, students must combine knowledge, understanding and skills to create products.

Explicit experience: Teacher gives students a puzzle ball with 6 different unassembled pieces. Holding an assembled one as example Teacher asks students to find a solution.

Implicit learning experience: divided in teams students are given 4 different short stories; Teacher pastes on the board 4 columns with a different genre name, then asks students to past the story to the genre it corresponds. Then teacher guides to identify elements of the different genres. Students generate a list with the characteristics of each specific genre.

Factual questions: What is the importance of identifying conventions? What is the connection between creativity and inspiration?
Conceptual questions: How can purpose inspire a change in attitude?
How can you make sure an action has met its purpose?
Debatable questions: Would you say that every creative expression has a purpose?
What if the purpose were to manipulate and not to inspire?

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Point of view influences language conventions and has affected communication through the eras.