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Teacher Questions
What teacher questions/provocations will drive these inquiries?
Students will create a web of ideas about where Students will visit the TIS garden and identify the
their family gets food (super market, mom and pop foods grown.
stores, coops, farmer's markets, CSAs, your
garden, hunting, fishing). Students will take a field trip to a supermarket to
see what is available and where it comes from.
Students will make a flow chart predicting how With this information, students can look at the food
food goes from the farm to the table. Students will pyramid to see all the foods we can buy locally to
make a chart of a processed food (like potato have a healthy diet, and what other foods we
chips) and a non-processed food (apple). Or, would have to get from somewhere else.
children will be given a piece of orange and some
orange juice. Children will predict the process and Students will locate on a map the countries of
teacher will record answers. origin for the different foods found on the field trip.
Students will make drawings and place them on
Teachers will look for evidence of understanding of the key the map.
concepts of process and unprocessed foods. Also, the
teacher will look for evidence of understanding systems or Students will make an international fruit salad with
steps, and international versus local. fruits from around the world to see the global
connection to the foods we eat.
Formative Assessment
What are the possible ways of assessing student learning in the context of
the lines of inquiry? What evidence will we look for? At home, students will keep a diary of the foods
they eat. At school, students will keep a record of
Students will make a mobile of the steps to create a foods they eat. This information will be recorded
processed food and another mobile for a non-processed on a class chart with three categories: local/non-
food. Students will identify where the foods come from. local/origin(where did the food come from)
Students will compare and contrast the steps needed for Students will notice if they eat more or less
the processed versus non-processed food. processed food, local or non-local food.
Teacher will look for evidence of understanding
processed/unprocessed, as well as where the food comes
Students will examine packaged foods to identify
from.
the ingredients in the product.
Transdisciplinary Skills
PYP Transdisciplinary Skills
Social skills
Accepting
responsibility
Communication skills
Presenting
Research skills
Collecting data
Organizing data
Presenting research
findings
Learner Profile
IB Learner Profile
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Reflective
Focus Attitudes
Focus Attitudes
Appreciation
Cooperation
Curiosity
What people, places, audio-visual materials, related literature, music, art, computer software,
etc, will be available?
BOOKS:
El gusto del mercado Mexicano. Por nancy maria Grande tabor (English version too)
http://aitc.oregonstate.edu/resources
Guest speaker who is a pig farmer.
Field trip to the New Seasons.
How will the classroom environment, local environment, and/or the community be used to
facilitate the inquiry?
Expert: shipping company owner Mr. Brazie
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Reflecting on the inquiry
6. To what extent did we achieve our purpose? 7. To what extent did we include the elements
of the PYP?
Assess the outcome of the inquiry by providing
evidence of students' understanding of the What were the learning experiences that
central idea. The reflections of all teachers enabled students to:
involved in the planning and teaching of the
inquiry should be included. develop an understanding of the
In the summative assessment, most students concepts identified in "What do we want
started at the beginning of the process and then to learn?"
clearly showed the steps that the food goes through
to get to the kitchen table. However, this year some
of the students struggled to figure out how to do Change and connection:
the steps of the summative assessment. For
example with ice cream, most students would be An example of an activity that illustrates the
able to identify the cow as the first step; other kids key concept of change was the "chocolate
would start with the ice cream cone. posters" activity. In this activity, we made
How you could improve on the assessment posters of the cocoa beans to chocolate. This
task(s) so that you would have a more activity help children to show step by step
accurate picture of each student's how the chocolate is made, and the
understanding of the central idea. ingredients to used.