Harding University Partnership School
An International Baccalaureate World School
Programme of Inquiry
June 2015
Who We Are
PK Central Idea:
People take care of
TK their bodies.
An inquiry into:
• Caring for yourself
• Self awareness
• Classroom
community
Related Concepts: Identity,
Communication, Conflict
K Central Idea:
Rules may help create
organization.
An inquiry into:
• Why rules are
created
• How rules are
followed
• Communicating
thoughts
Related Concepts:
Citizenship, Communication,
Conflict
Where We Are in
Place and Time
Central Idea:
People live, work, and
play in communities.
An inquiry into:
• Families are special
• People in a community
• Places in a community
Related Concepts: Heritage,
Citizenship, Traditions
Central Idea:
Families can change over
time.
An inquiry into:
• What a family is
• What relatives are
• Similarities and
differences in families
Related Concepts: Identity,
Traditions, Belonging
Joy and Excellence in Learning
How We How the World How We Sharing the
Express Works Organize Planet
Ourselves Ourselves
Central Idea: Central Idea:
Creativity helps people Living things need
grow and change care to grow and be
healthy.
An inquiry into: An inquiry into:
• Curiosity and • Animal homes
imagination • Plant and animal
• Experimentation growth
• Skills change over • Nature is all around
time us
Related Concepts: Related Concepts:
Emotion, Innovation Wellness, Ecology
Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea:
Authors and illustrators Plants and animals Workers have Leaders can make a
use writing and pictures have needs for survival. different roles in the difference in the world.
to communicate community.
meaning.
An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into:
An inquiry into: • Patterns for survival • Types of jobs • Conflict resolution
• Author’s purpose • Animal effects on the • Occupations past • Events that lead to
• Parts of literature environment and present leadership
• Stories teach • Relationships • Roles and • Roles of a
lessons between living things responsibilities peacemaker
Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Equality,
Literacy Ecosystems, Community Leadership, Justice
Interdependence
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 Who We Are Where We Are in How We How the World How We Sharing the
Place and Time Express Works Organize Planet
Ourselves Ourselves
1 Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea:
Personal choices affect Human Life Changes Patterns in literature Communities are Citizenship is global. Living things adapt to
our well-being. Over Time are global. affected by the physical their environment to
environment. survive.

An inquiry into:
• Hygiene
• Nutrition and fitness
• Staying balanced
An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into:
• Changing communities • Story elements • Elements of weather • Leadership • Animal
• Timelines • Character analysis • Cycles in space • Rules characteristics
• Advances in • Expressions through • Effects on lifestyles • Roles and • Connections
technology literature Responsibility between habitats
and living things
• Parents and
offspring

Related Concepts: Progress, Related Concepts: Language Related Concepts: Systems, Related Concepts: Safety, Related Concepts:
Related Concepts: Health, Innovation, History Development, Culture, Evidence Cooperation, Community Ecology, Behavior
Wellness Geography

2 Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea:
Our experiences The land changes over Our lives are affected Living things inhabit Producers and People need the land
translate into family time. by words and actions of different kinds of consumers depend and its resources in
stories and identities. people today and long environments. on each other for order to live.
ago. goods and services.

An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into:
• We learn about • Maps show location • People show • Diversity of life, life • Wants and needs, • The need for
ourselves and others • Landforms around the courage cycles in different goods and natural resources
through family world • Positive impacts on habitats services • Products come from
stories • Things change at the world • Pollination and seed • Producers and natural resources
• Family life, past and different rates • Ways of taking disbursement consumers • Renewable and
present action • What plants need to • Currency and nonrenewable
• Traditions grow trade resources

Related Concepts: Culture,
Social Organization, Diversity
Related Concepts: Geography,
Landscape, Physical Changes
Related Concepts:
Consumption, Conservation,
Related Concepts: Justice, Related Concepts:
Sustainability
Leadership, Citizenship Economy,
Related Concepts: Plants,
Interdependence,
Animals, Habitats
Cooperation

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 Who We Are
3 Central Idea:
Communities form on
the basis of need.
An inquiry into:
• Indigenous cultures
• Stories shared within
a community
• Beliefs and customs
Related Concepts: Roles,
Traditions, Archaeology
4 Central Idea:
Personal values,
beliefs, and choices
influence a person’s
life.
An inquiry into:
• Choices affect who
we become
• Determination of
risks and
consequences of our
choices
• Our choices impact
ourselves and others
Related Concepts: Character,
Self-awareness, Self-
regulation
Where We Are in How We How the World How We Sharing the
Place and Time Express Works Organize Planet
Ourselves Ourselves
Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea:
People work for equal Humans use their Weather impacts our People form Organisms depend on
rights. imagination for world. communities for each other and their
contributions to society. social order. environment.
An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into:
• Equity and justice • Ways of expressing • Weather climates • Need for • Life cycles
• Struggle for civil rights imagination • Patterns across the government • Interdependence in
• Human rights • Inventors and seasons • Government ecosystems
inventions • Preparing for responsibilities • Adaptations to
• Inspiring creativity hazardous weather • Benefit of rules environmental
and perseverance and laws factors
Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Related Concepts:
Freedom, Conflict, Prejudice Innovation, Technological Atmosphere, Systems Government, History, Adaptation, Conservation,
Advances, Aesthetics Roles Sustainability
Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea:
Discoveries influence People can express Living things rely on Trade and exchange Energy exists in
migration. feelings with non-verbal systems. of products and different forms and is
communication. services has a global used in different ways.
influence
An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into:
• Mass migration • Forms of nonverbal • Processing • Forms of Speed and motion
• Environmental impacts communication information of plants exchange of goods Types of energy
• Geological resources • Communicating and animals and services How circuits work
ideas and feelings • Structures of plants • Availability of
• Reasons for and animals goods and
nonverbal • Behaviors of plants services
communication. and animals • Personal value of Related Concepts:
Responsibility, Trust,
goods and Discovery
services
Related Concepts: Symbols,
Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Ecology, Related Concepts:
Disabilities, Awareness
Settlements, Ownership, Classification, Adaptation Economics, Distribution,
Landscape Consumption
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 Who We Are Where We Are in How We How the World How We Sharing the
Place and Time Express Works Organize Planet
Ourselves Ourselves
5 Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea:
Energy moves through Human exploration may Knowledge is Our solar system Government systems Matter structures our
ecosystems. present challenges and demonstrated in a depends on the sun’s affect people in world.
opportunities. variety of ways. consistency. different ways.

An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into:
• Models of energy • Colonies • Using technological • Night sky • Relationship of • Properties of matter
systems • Westward expansion resources • Gravitation force equity and laws • Mixtures and
• Photosynthesis • Modern migration • Presentation • Discoveries in space • Structure of solutions
• Environmental strategies government • Connections
impacts • Audience and • Rights and social between matter and
purpose justices humans

Related Concepts:
Related Concepts: Growth,
Discrimination, Impact,
Behavior, Responsibility
Resilience
Related Concepts: Evidence, Related Concepts: Structure, Related Concepts: Related Concepts:
Communication, Teamwork Systems, Conflict, Interdependence, Evidence,
Properties, Systems
Organization Chemistry

6 Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea: Central Idea:
Innovations and Past civilizations shape Works of art can Natural processes Societies of the past Humans depend on
communication present day life. express thoughts and impact the world we live may influence our opportunities for
contribute to human feelings of individuals. in. current thinking. growth.
development.

An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into: An inquiry into:
• Archaeological • Progression from • Forms of art • Oceans and • Laws and decision • Equity in education.
evidence prehistoric civilizations • Tools of expression atmosphere making • Forms of actions
• Technological gains • Geographical • Artists around the interactions • Evolution of • Accessibility to
• Use of natural resources world • Impact of natural innovation resources
resources • Social structures disasters • Ancient religion
• Human interactions
with the environment

Related Concepts: Related Concepts: Resilience, Related Concepts: Diversity, Related Concepts: Erosion, Related Concepts: History, Related Concepts:
Communication, Chronology, Cooperation, Production Exploration, Creativity Patterns, Climate Conflict, Progress Resilience, Cooperation,
Migration Production