How could this space support the development of this conceptual understanding?

Identify additional concepts that would enrich the learning around this concept. Justify your thinking.

CHALLENGE: Can you find an example of each specified concept on your concept adventure?

Causation

Sustainability

Connection

Responsibility

Community

Does this work? How might you make this work?

Related concepts: responsibility, construction

Where do we find them? How have bins changed over time? Why have bins changed?

Links to Sustainability, Who We Are (what might bins be like in other countries? Are all bins the same?), Environment

Reaponsibility - Keep memories alive and look the area/environment

Connection - Memorialisation and

Change

Related concepts:

Adaptation

Life cycle, cycles and systems

Sustainability

Children discovered this during some ‘thematic’ explorations

Geography

Environment

Adaptation

What are the types of terrain? How are they different?

What might be find in environments around the world? How are these rocks/plants created? How have plants adapted to this environment?

Additional concept: transmission

Colour

Texture

Perspective

Construction

Man made/ natural

Connection

How do you know what your responsibility is?

What ways might you be responsible as a pedestrian? What ways are drivers responsible?

Related concepts: safety, perspective

What would this tree look like if you were a bird sitting in a branch of it? What would this tree look like zoomed in on from google maps? What would this tree look like if you were an ant crawling underneath? What's a new perspective you could look at this tree with, can you draw this new perspective? What is the trees perspective about having a new building built around it?

Related concepts:

Relativity

How does the house system keep us organised?

Purpose, connection, perspective, change, sustainability, form and function.

Responsibility

Causation: What happens if the server floods?

Connection: How does the server connect CGS?

Responsibility: Whose responsibility is it to keep the school safe?

Change: How has serves changed over time.

Working with what we have and making the most

Confirmed importance and power of concepts

Still wondering how flexible and responsive we can be in our space at cgs

The activity of the three concepts mind map was one of the best concrete ways I’ve engaged with the concepts.

Square

How foundational and important they are.

Circle

How you use the concepts or the questions you generate link to lines of inquiry.

Square: Specified concepts and additional concepts.

Circle: Which is published and defined language / quotes to use within the IB and what is creatively constructed on the teacher level.

Squared: New terminology and changes in the PYP language (i.e specific and additional concepts).

Circle: How can we strengthen our classroom practice to ensure we are explicitly linking back to the specific concepts in a way which is relevant and memorable to students in amongst the jargon all of the other things they are required to be across?

Connection between what we do every day for and with students is important for our collective community

The building blocks over years have allowed deep thinking and learning.

There are so many ways to approach conceptual learning... there is not one way

We know a lot. Great opportunity to plan next steps

2.New language (specified and additional)

3.SOLO taxonomy and how this tool can allow for broader assessment

4.Differebt ways to look at concepts. eg: the walk and photo

5.More resources to see what something looks like would benefit

1. Teaching effectively through a conceptual lens is complex and requires a depth of understanding and metacognitive skills.

2. A significant shift of thinking may be required to successfully teach through a conceptual lens to transcend the parameters of subjects.

3. Concepts are not themes

4. Solo Taxonomy using lego

5. Concrete and Abstract concepts