Welcome to the Grade 4 page. 

We recently completed our PYP Inquiry Unit, Inventing Minds. 

The Central Idea was:

People create and adapt inventions to meet a specific need.

It was an inquiry into:

How significant inventions shaped the world

The inventive process

What it takes to be an inventor

What it takes for a group to be an inventor

A major part of this unit was studying the inventive process first hand. Each student had to invent something to meet a specific need.  They also worked in groups, building a robot and writing a computer programme to control the robot and solve a particular problem.

The culmination of this was the Invention Convention where the students displayed and explained their inventions to visitors from all grade levels in the school.

They were judged on their inventions by their peers and a team of judges from the school faculty.