The Beginning of our Unit Journey on Sharing the Planet

For the past two weeks, Grade 1s have been exploring the concepts of connection, causation, relationships and survival in our unit under the theme Sharing the Planet. We are looking forward to achieve an understanding of how living things are interrelated and how each and every living thing contributes to and influences survival. We started by unpacking the Central Idea: Relationships between and among living things influence survival. The learners worked in groups and applied research skills by looking for the meanings of the big words - relationships, influence, survival.

Once the big words were simplified, we looked at the central idea explained in a simple way: How we interact with other living things (animals and plants) may help or not help us live longer. We also looked at their schema or prior knowledge about living things and identified them according to the type of consumers they are: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore.

As we zoom in to the concept of survival, Grade 1s were asked to work in groups and act according to this situation: `Your family needs to evacuate to an unknown safer place than Rokko island. What will you put inside the survival bag?` These were their ideas:

We ended the week asking questions and sharing our wonderings.