Sharing The Planet
Sharing The Planet
Sharing The Planet
An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with
living things; communities and the relationships within them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict
resolution.
Central Idea
Interactions between living things are essential to our environment.
Concepts
Causation, Connection, Responsibility
Related concepts
Impact, interactions, living things, Growth Cycles
Lines of Inquiry
Reading
Join in with reading familiar, simple stories and poems. Demonstrate an understanding that one spoken word
corresponds with one written word.
Know that in English, print is read from left to right and top to bottom.
Read a range of common words on sight.
Use phonic knowledge to read decodable words and to attempt to sound out some elements of unfamiliar
words.
Talk about events in a story and make simple inferences about characters and events to show understanding.
Writing
Compose and write a simple sentence with a capital letter and a full stop.
Write simple information texts with labels, captions, lists, questions and instructions for a purpose.
Mathematics
Number
Use more or less to compare two numbers, and give a number which lies between them
Give a sensible estimate of some objects that can be checked by counting, e.g to 30
Understand addition as counting on and combining two sets; record related addition sentences
Find two more or less than a number to 20, recording the jumps on a number line
Add a pair of numbers by putting the larger number first and counting on
Length, Mass & Capacity
Estimate and compare capacity by direct comparison, then by using uniform non-standard units
begin to understand and use some units of time weeks, months. - TIME
Problem Solving
Physical Education
During the second unit of inquiry, students in Physical Education will be involved in a variety of minor games including
running and tag games. These will be used to develop the students ability to follow instructions, awareness of other
players and their own gross motor skills of running and evading players.
Art
Line and Shape
Central Idea: Shapes can be found in art and in the
environment. Artworks can contain both geometric and
organic shapes.
Lines of Inquiry: