TDT Connection(s):

• Relationships and belonging

Revision Suggested:

This unit is very similar to the EY3 unit. Might need a revision.

TDT connections:

Relationships and belonging

To review : Too similar to what we do in EY.

TDT Connection(s):

Relationships and belonging.

Revision:

CI:

1. Relationships can affect how we feel and live.

2. The way we connect with others can influence our health.

3. Relationships can have an effect on our well-being.

4. How we relate to others can impact our health.

5. Friendships grow when we care, share and play together.

6. Relationships change as we make, keep, and sometimes lose friends.

7. Changing relationships influence our lives.

   
   

TDT Connections:

• Learning and growing

• Physical, emotional, social and spiritual health and well-being

TDT Connections:

1: social and emotional health

3. learning and Growing

Revision Suggested:

Too wordy, this Central Idea focusses on learning only. Ideas to change to physical, emotional health and well-being.(Getting to know ourselves, our interests and how we learn can still be in there)

CI:

• Exploring learning styles can help us understand ourselves and others.

• People learn in different ways, and this helps us understand ourselves and others.

• Knowing that everyone learns differently helps us support each other's learning.

• We all learn in our own ways, and this helps us grow and care for each other.

• Understanding different ways of learning helps us take care of our own learning and support others.

• We all learning in different ways, and this shapes how we feel and who we are.

• Knowing that people learn differently helps us value ourselves, support others, and feel good about learning.

• Different ways of leaning influence our well-being and help us understand who we are.

• We all learn in different ways, and this shapes how we feel and who we are.

• Understanding different ways of learning helps us care for our feelings and respect each other's identities.

  
  

TDT Connection（s):

• Physical, emotional, social and spiritual health and well-being

• relationships and belonging

Revision:

1. Health is impacted by physical, emotional, social and spiritual choices.

2. Well-being choices can influence people's feeling of self-confidence.

3. People achieve well-being by following a balance of physical, emotional, and spiritual practices.

4. As we grow up, we can find balance in body, feelings and spirit.

5. Growing up involves caring for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

6. Our body, feelings and spirit change as we grow, and balance helps us stay well.

7. Growing up means learning how to look after our body, emotions, and spirit.

New TDT Connection:

• Physical, emotional, social and spiritual health and well-being

• learning and growing

Focus on periods, events or artifacts.

1. Old things tell us stories about people who lived before us.

2. Our clothes and toys show how people lived long ago and now.

1. 3. Homes and the things inside them change as families grow and learn.

   4. People made new things to solve problems a long time ago and today.

   5. Photographs and objects help us remember special times.

   6. Different cultures keep different kinds of toys, clothes and tools.

   7. When people move or travel, they bring their things and stories with them.

   8. Some things from the past are kept safe because they are important to people.

   9. We learn about history by asking questions about old objects.

   10. Playing with old and new toys helps us see how life has changed.

TDT connection: livelihoods

To revise : Lines of inquiries too wide, need something more specific.

Connections: Patterns, cycles and systems.

*To review : Too difficult for KG, lines of inquiries don't match/don't make sense.

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Revision:

CI: The Earth, sky, and weather show patterns that help us understand how things change.

TDT: Patterns, cycles

Connections: Inspiration, imagination, creativity.

*To revise : Very similar to what we do in EY, lines of inquiries repeat each other, not specific enough.

Revision:

Drafts to consider:

1. Stories help us use our imagination to explore ideas and create new worlds.

2. Stories can take us on adventures in our minds.

3. Through stories, we can imagine and create new ideas.

4. Our imagination makes stories come alive.

5. We use stories to share ideas, dreams, and adventures.

6. Stories can help us think, dream, and create.

7. Imagination helps us make and enjoy stories.

8. Imagination allows us to create and share stories in different ways.

   1. How stories are created and shared ()

   2. Different ways people tell stories around the world. (Perspective)

   3. Why people tell stories and what we can learn from them. (Function)

Connection: Rights and responsibilities

To revise : Very similar to EY, lines of inquiries are very vague/not intelligible.

Revision:

Living things depend on Earth's habitats and their structure for survival. 

• Relationships

• Friendship

• Collaboration

TDT Connection:

Communities, heritage, culture and environment.

Revisions:

1. Exploring our heritage and traditions helps us understand our place in the world.

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TDT Connections:

Communities, heritages, culture and environment.

Revision:

The earth changes over time through natural forces and human action.

TDT Connections:

Environment

TDT: Natural and human drivers of movement, adaptation and transformation

Revision suggested: To take out the word "space" as that might limit our unit of discoveries

CI:

put drafts here

Exploration can lead to new discoveries and develop new understandings.

TDT: Natural and human drivers of movement, adaptation, and transformation

Rewording of CI: (consider)

People move from place to place for different reasons, and migration changes both the people and the communities involved.

The consequences of expansion have led to alterations within environments and peoples lives.

TDT connection:

Natural and human drivers of movement, adaptation, and transformation

TDT Connection:

Interaction within and between social and ecological systems

Approaches to livelihoods and trade practices; intended and unintended consequences.

Representation, collaboration and decision making

Revision Suggested:

Big Idea = Cities

CI:

Drafts:

1. Effective cities require planning.

2. Cities are organized so people can live, learn and play safely.

3. Cities are organized to meet needs and wants.

TDT: Interactions within and between social and ecological systems.

Revision:

People build communities to impact lives.

• People build communities to live, work and play together.

• Communities are made of people who work and live together.

• People create immunities to meet needs and support each other.

• Communities are groups of people whose actions affect each other.

TDT: Approaches to livelihoods and trade practices: intended and unintended consequences

Review:

how technology has changed over time, and how it affects how humas live and interact with the environment around them.

Citizens and governments have a duty to work together for the betterment of society

TDT connection:

representation, collaboration and decision-making

Revision:

- Students can be leaders by working together to make positive changes in their community.

- Everyone can be a leader when they take action to help others and improve their community.

- Leadership means working with others to solve problems and make our world better.

- Students show leadership by making responsible choices that impact their community.

- Being a leaders is about listening, sharing ideas, and guiding others toward positive change.

- Leaders inspire others to work together for the good of everyone.

Leadership means working with others to take action to help and improve their community.

TDT Connection:

Discovery, design, innovation: possibilities and impacts

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Revision

TDT: Patterns, cycles, systems

Diverse practices, methods and tools

CI: Energy and forces interact with materials to create change.

TDT connections:

Patterns, cycles, systems.

Revision:

Energy and forces work together to create change and movement in our world. 

TCT: Patterns, cycles and systems

Review:

Earth's dynamic surface and the patterns in the sky help us predict and understand the world.

TDT: Patterns, cycles, systems

Diverse practices, methods and tools Discovery, design, innovation:

possibilities and impacts

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Revision

Designers use their understanding of energy and matter to create solutions that improve people's lives.

TDT connections:

design, innovation, possibilities and impacts

Revisions to consider:

• People use science and technology to solve problems and make changes.

• Innovation shapes how we live, work, and connect with others.

TDT Connections:

Personal, social and cultural modes and practices of communication.

TDT connections:

Intentions, perceptions, interpretations and responses.

TDT: Intentions, perceptions interpretations and responses

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Revision

TDT: Social and Cultural modes of communications

CI: The performing arts change ideas into actions, movement and voice to communicate stories

Art is a reflective expression evolving through interactions

TDT connection:

Personal, social and cultural modes and practices of communication

TDT Connection:

Nature, complexity, coexistence and wisdom.

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NO Revision this year.

TDT connections :

Nature, complexity, coexistence and wisdom.

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NO Revision this year.

TDT:

Rights responsibility and dignity of all

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NO Revision this year.

CI: Our actions deeply affect our world.

TDT connection:

Right, responsibilities and dignity of all

Pathways to just, peaceful and reimagined futures

Nature, complexity, coexistence and wisdom

Belonging

Relationships

Friendships

Emotion

Health/wellbeing

Growth

Suggestion to change to "principled" with a sub heading "respect"

Mental and physical health build self-efficacy

TDT connection:

Physical, emotional, social and spiritual health and well-being

Revision Suggested:

CI:

• As we grow older, our body, feelings, and relationships change.

• Growing up is a natural process that brings, physical, emotional and social changes.

• Puberty is a part of growing up and affects our body, emotions, and friendships.

• Getting older means experiencing changes in our body, feelings, and relationships.

1. Function

2. Connection

3. Responsibility

1. Cooperation makes work and play more fun

2.The quality of our relationships can affect how we feel

3.How to keep and make friends

Revision:

Revise LOI2 to focus on FORM and the variety of feelings we experience in relationships.

Rationale:

We cover connection three times already in the POI.

Revision:

What does it mean to belong? (form)

• What it means to belong to a group

Where do you belong?

What does it feel like to belong? (Perspective)

• How belonging feels

What does it feel like to not belong?

How can I help others feel like they belong? (responsibility)

• Helping other's belong

Function

Connection

1. People and places in our communities

2. The different roles we play in our communities

3. How we cooperate within our communities

Revision:

Move 3 up to 1, because it can focus on rules and routines, which is good at the beginning of the year.

Revised:

CI:

Lines of Inquiry:

• Making relationships

• Maintaining relationships

• Losing relationships

Revision:

1. What is the role of movement and nutrition? (Function)

   1. The role of movement and nutrition

2. How do people view movement and nutrition? (Perspective)

   1. People's view of movement and nutrition

3. How does movement and nutrition impact our body? (Causation)

   1. The impact of movement and nutrition on the body

      
      

2 Function

3 Responsibility

Different learning styles (form)

How people construct knowledge (function)

Our Responsibility to others and ourselves within a learning Community (responsibility)

Review:

Our different interests and hobbies and how they reflect our personalities

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Revised:

CI: We all learn in our own ways, and this helps us grow and care for each other.

Lines of Inquiry:

• Different ways people learn (form)

• How learning can affect our feelings (Casuation)

• How people support their own learning and the learning of others. (Responsibility)

People use their environment to meet their needs (Causation)

Customs and traditions among indigenous people (connection)

Revised:

CI: People achieve well-being by following a balance of physical, emotional, and spiritual practices.

Lines of Inquiry:

• Physical, emotional, and spiritual strategies(form)

• Connections between physical, emotional and social health (connected)

• Lifestyle choices people can make. (responsibility)

Mental and Physical Health build self efficacy

TDT connection:

Learning and growing

Lines of Inquiry

• The growth mindset (Form)

• The body systems (Function)

• Making Choices for a healthy body and mind. (Responsibility)

Revised:

CI: Puberty

Lines of Inquiry:

• 1

• 2

• 3

SWBAT Get Friendship, communication and team work

Culture

Changes

Diversity

Responsibility

Consequences

Responsibility

1. Everyone has a responsibility to create a positive learning environment

2. How our actions affect those around us.

Revision:

This was our first unit of inquiry, then we went to Who We Are. There were only two LOI because we used the first part as a welcome week.

We only have 1 causation and it could be added to this unit.

Classification

Energy

Uses

Function

Causation

1. Ways materials can be classified.

2. Forms of energy.

3. Ways energy is used and changes.

Reflection:

This is very similar to what they do in EY4 and KG

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Revision:

• Classify properties of materials (FORM)

• Change through energy (CHANGE)

• How tools do work (FUNCTION)

Stories

Perspective

Artforms

Function

Perspective

1. The different purposes of telling stories.

2. Perspective can shape how a story is told.

3. Different ways that stories are told through art.

Charactistics

Development

Responsibility

Animals

Change

Responsibility

1. Animals and their characteristics.

2. Animals growing and developing.

3. Our responsibility towards animals.

Revision:

This is similar across all PYP.

communities

environments

Exploration

Discovery

Discoveries

Connection

The affect of migration on individuals, cultures, and societies (change)

The impact of past, present and our future migration journey (perspective)

efficiency

Revised:

Patterns

cycles

Love

personal Deveolpment

awareness

Action

expression

• The social and environmental changes from settlements (change)

• The human effects of colonization(Perspective).

• Consequences of colonization lead to the need for cultural identity. (causation)

Government and economic systems are created to manage people, groups in different ways.

TDT connections:

Representation, collaboration and decision making

Revision:

No revision this year for 2025-2026.

For 2026-2027 this unit needs to revise to focus on government types and trade practices. Focus on content from How To Build Your Own Country. Focus most on 1 and 3 parts.

2 Connection

3 Function

Origins of the Universe (Change)

Discovering the Solar System (connection)

Importance of the Sun (function)

Exploring differences between celestial bodies (Form)

Revision:

1. Past, present and future explorations (form)

2. Forces that inspire exploration (causation)

3. Effects of exploration (perspective)

• the purpose and function of government. (Function)

• The responsibility of individuals to participate in societal decision making (Responsibility)

• The impact governmental and individual cooperation has on society (Reflection)

Revised CI:

Leadership means working with others to take action to help and improve their community.

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• What leadership looks like in different situations and communities (Form)

• The responsibility of people to participate in societal decision making (Responsibility)

• The role of leaders in making decisions that affect others (Responsibility)

• How leadership can bring about positive changes in a community (CHANGE)

• How different points of view can shape the way leaders make decisions. (PERSPECTIVE)

• How leaders connect people, idea and actions to reach a common goal (CONNECTION)

- An inquiry into the the role of design in creating art, and the use of our imagination. (Function)

- An inquiry into the connections between our creativity, imagination and daily experiences. (Connection)

Revision:

1. How stories are created and shared (Change)

2. Why people tell stories and what we can learn from them. (Function)

3. Different ways people tell stories around the world. (Perspective)

   
   

• Reasons to create new things (causation)

• The process of new designs (function)

• The benefits and drawbacks of innovation (connection)

2 Connection

3 Causation

How an economy Works

Distribution of goods and service

Factors affecting decision making

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Revision

• The different forms of energy and types of forces around us. (FORM)

• How energy is transferred through forces to cause motion and change. (CAUSATION)

• Our responsibility in using our understanding of energy and forces. (RESPONSIBILITY)

1. Earth's features help determine location of places (Perspective)

2. Maps can be used and designed in different ways(Function) 3. Maps and navigation evolved overtime (Reflection) Specified Concepts Form, Function, Change

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Revision

LOI:

• Identifying changes connected to water. (form)

• The natural and human factors that impact the land. (causation)

• Our responsibility to sustain the environment. (responsibility)

An inquiry into the different forms of matter & energy.

An inquiry into where matter and energy are found and where it is not.

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Revisions

• What Earth, sky and weather look like and how we can describe them. (FORM)

• How weather patterns happen and what makes them work. (FUNCTION)

• Why weather changes and what causes those changes. (CAUSATION)

• How we can make good choices to stay safe and take care of our world when the weather changes. (RESPONSIBILITY)

Lines of Inquiry

• How performers use their bodies ad voices to show a story (Function)

• Why performers make certain choices to express ideas (Causation)

• How performers, produces, designers and musicians all work together (Connection)

1. Our sense of belonging to a groups influences how we feel and act.

2. Connections with groups shape our emotions and behaviors.

3. Belonging to groups affects our identify and emotional well-being.

4. The groups we belong to can influence our feelings, choices, and relationships.

5. Belonging to a group can affect how we feel.

6. When we feel we belong, it can change our emotions.

7. Being part of a group influences our feelings.

8. Belonging helps us understand our own feelings and others' feelings.

TDT Connection(s):

• Relationship and belonging

• Physical, emotional, social and spiritual health and well-being

2 Connection

3 Causation

How an economy Works

Distribution of goods and service

Factors affecting decision making

Connection

Perspective

1. How the past connects

   1. 
      

2. How the present

   1. How yesterday, today and tomorrow are connected.

      1. TQ: What's my personal history

3. How the future

   1. How diversities can unite or separate people

      1. TQ: Foods

      2. Flags

      3. Festivals

      4. Values

      5. Believe

         
         

• The significance of various art mediums in expression (Perspective)

• Understanding culture through expressive contribution (Reflection)

• The relationship between art and the time it was created. (Causation)

1. (Form)

2. Investigate the patterns on Earth and the sky (Causation)

3. Our responsibility to make predictions (Responsibility)

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Revision

• The different forms of Earth's energy (Form)

• Investigate the patterns on Earth and the sky (Causation)

• Our responsibility to make predictions (Responsibility)

Lines of Inquiry

• The properties energy and matter and how we can observe and describe them. (FORM)

• How designers use energy and materials to make solutions work. (FUCNTION)

• Why understanding energy and matter leads to more effective problem-solving and innovation for people and the planet (CAUSATION)

2. CIs will need to shift and change as a result.

Form

Function

Connection

• The different habitats of the world

• The connection between climate and habitats

• The role of internal and external parts of living things

Habitats

Survival