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PYP schools aim to teach a transdiciplinary curriculum to offer students a broad, balanced, conceptual, and connected learning experience. In order to engage students in transdiciplinary learning schools create a programme of inquiry.
Characteristics of a well developed programme of inquiry:
- Ensures students learn through a balance of subject-specific knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills, development of the learner profile, and opportunities for action
- Six transdiciplinary themes
- Themes capture human commonalities that are significant and relevant across cultures, geographic regions and student learning stages
- Collaboratively planned, developed, and continually modified based on reflection with students
From Principles into Practice: Learning and Teaching p. 57
Six transdisciplinary themes form the structure
of the progamme of inquiry.
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Who We Are: An inquiry into
- The nature of self
- Beliefs and Values
- Personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health
- Human relationships including families, friends, communities, and cultures
- Rights & Responsibilities
- What it means to be human
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Where We Are In Place & Time: An inquiry into
- Orientation in place & time
- Personal histories
- Homes & Journeys
- The discoveries, explorations, and migrations of humankind
- The relationship between & the interconnectedness of individuals & civilizations, from local & global perspectives
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How We Organize Ourselves: An inquiry into
- The interconnectedness of human-made systems & communities
- The structure & function of organizations
- Societal decision-making
- Economic activities & their impact on humankind & the environments
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How the World Works: An inquiry into
- The natural world & its laws
- The interaction between the natural world (physical & biological) & human societies
- How humans use their understanding of scientific principles
- The impact of scientific & technological advances on society & on the environment
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How We Express Ourselves: An inquiry into
- The ways in which we discover & express ideas, culture, beliefs, and values
- The ways in which we reflect on, extend and enjoy our creativity
- Our appreciation of the aesthetic
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Sharing the Planet: An inquiry into
- Rights & responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things
- Communities & the relationship within & between them
- Access to equal opportunities
- Peace & conflict resolution
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