18

Monday

rac
yMat

Inq
uiry
Lite

EXHIBITION TIMELINE
2010-2011 Grade 5
Tuesday

Whats going on? Student

Information Session 1:30

19
20

Jan 24-28
Jan31-4Feb

21

Feb 7-11

22
23

Feb 14-18
Feb 21-25

Thursday

Friday
The Wall is Full of Post-its,
BIG IDEAS

Learning Log Current Events

Whats on your mind? wall
with G5 students
HOLIDAY

IN-SERVICE
Adviser Meeting with snacks
and drinks! (30 mins) David
to coordinate

24

Wednesday
Talk to whole faculty (David)
Message: we dont want this to
be contained only in grade 5
classrooms. Inform teachers of
The Wall Launch of Exhibition

Jan 17-21

Inner Journey through the

arts, time devoted to creating
things, related to an
issue/passion with new
issues group.

Feb 28-Mar 4

ISA Testing

ISA Testing

HOLIDAY
Setting the Stage
Cooperative Working
Skills
Trans Skills,
Mixed/rotational
activities. Not just getting
along, but negotiating
etc.

HOLIDAY

Big ideas tree used

Student Lead Conference
HOLIDAY

Kids will come up with the big

themes, and organize the BIG
IDEAS into those themes. Kids
then commit to a concept, in
which they have the most
interest.

Technorama

Smaller groups formed

according to chosen issue and
concept

Establish Group
Behaviour. By end of
today, groups need lines
of inquiry

Davos Trip

HOLIDAY

Gather student questions for

panel session
Grade 4&5 Assembly

25

Mar 7-11

26

Mar 14-18

27

Mar 21-25

28
29

Mar 28- April 1

Apr 4-8
Apr 11-15

30

Apr 18-22

31

Apr 25-29

Exhibition

th

6 Grade Panel
Linking & Forming taking
ideas and adding to a new
wall groups are formed
PLUS cooperative work with
groups
Final groups worked out by
teachers, groups develop
lines of inquiry
Searching & Collecting in
groups, deciding on lines of
inquiry, collecting resources
Synthesising &
Connection
Halfway there Student
Information Session if
needed
Action week
Presentation Week

Exhibition Week

Action

Exhibition with parents

Exhibition school

Ju

Davos Trip

Davos Trip

To Do/Schedule:
Team
Dan
(Dan/David)
(Aaron/Mau)
(Dan/Alice)
(David/)

Times
8:45 9:15
9:15 10:15
10:35 11:30
11:30 12:30
1:30 2:30
2:30 3:30

Jan 19th
asap
Feb 21
Jan 19
10 Feb
Feb 9

Calendar, booklet/Smartbook, Learning Log ready, plan for current events for students, oral presentations
IT possibilities tools required
Meeting to advisers
Create The Wall whats on your mind? Where? Who?
Video for parent information to put on blog
Grade 6 session/panel coordination (1:30 OR possibly 8:30 if needed)

Monday
A
B
C

Exhibition Work Sessions for Grade 5 classes

Tuesday
Wednesday
D
E
F

Thursday

Friday

Pre-Exhibition:
Feb 7th -11th 2011.
Whats on your mind?
Learning Logs headlines/current events.
Wondering Tree Whats on your mind?
Student-led conferences. Students and parents share an issue/event from their learning log and formulate their
concerns/questions into a headline and place it on the tree.
Week 1: Feb 23rd Fed 25th: Setting the Stage (in homeroom classes).
In class things to do:
Revisit ideas that came from Whats on your mind?
Grouping these how can they be grouped?
What big ideas / interests / issues can we see?
What concepts can we see?
What is the difference between an interest and an issue?
Look for connections.
What can lead to action? What is action? What kind of action?
Cooperative Working Skills:
Trans Skills social skills (accepting responsibility, respecting others, cooperating, resolving conflict, group
decision making.)
Accepting responsibility:
We Can Make A Difference focusing around the central idea and what is involved in this process, have
discussion groups to highlight what responsibilities they will face.
What is a responsibility?
What are we responsible for?
Resolving conflict:
Warm up with ppt. respecting different opinions as tuning into
Share powerpoint (resolving conflict) and discuss as you go.
Record other things that make you angry when working in a group
Show Problem solving solutions document to model ring of solutions
Develop other strategies to calm down and resolve these issues.
Display in class to revisit when groups agree on behavior goals and expectations.
Group decision making:

Putting it into practice!

After the previous session give students a task. (rocket challenge, quick sand, team games etc.)
Reflect how effective they were as a group member, after having the group fill out the Co-operative Peer
Assessment Form. What skills and strategies did they use? What frustrated them? What solutions did they use?
Week 2 March 2nd: Inner Journey
(4 sessions in class group).
At the end of this week students will be ready to be put into new issue groups.
Through the arts time is given to develop something visually creative.
Individually produce artwork to reflect an issue.
Suggestion is to take most of the day to work on this (Monday)
Tuesday Student Led Conferences
Thursday / Friday:
Analysis of art to develop language and understandings of issues revisit what are issues?
How can we make a difference?
What action can be taken?
Students should be encouraged to broaden their ideas.
Students grouped according to these broad ideas / issues.
Student Journal pages: State the Issue or problem and Why is this a problem / issue? With Teacher comment as
assessment.

Week 3: 9th March (Davos): Linking & Forming (5 days over 2 weeks)
Final groups worked out by teachers, groups develop lines of inquiry, using the concept questions in the S.H.
http://www.big6.com/files/Big6Handouts.pdf
https://sites.google.com/a/tcis.or.kr/pyp/home/big%206%20poster%20final.jpg
http://www.slideshare.net/maryaliceosborne/big6-zen-powerpoint-presentation