Grade 5

GRADE 5

Grade 5 P.Y.P. Units and Activities

Throughout the Year

Finding Your Voice

August

How We Express Ourselves

Central Idea:

Various types of communication help us to be understood and to understand.

An inquiry into:

-What makes communication effective

-Different ways of presenting a story

-Our need to be understood

-Physical structures used in oral communication

-Identifying conflict situations, expressing opinions and suggesting group strategies for resolutions

Togetherness

September/October

How We Organize Ourselves

Central Idea:

People collaborate to produce mass communication.

An inquiry into:

-How a newspaper article is written

-Roles of different personnel

-How is a newspaper is published

-Meeting deadlines through collaboration

The students needed to learn how to collaborate in order to tent together successfully, complete survival activities, and produce a newspaper!

Bally Vaughan Newspapers: 2007-8

Click the groups below to see their newspapers. Each newspaper is a PDF document. You will need Adobe Reader to view them.

The Lion Express	The Ostrich orbit
The Gazzelle Post	The Scorpion Gazette
The Spotted Hyena News

Bones & Stones

November to January

Where We Are in Space and Time

Central Idea:

All things change through interaction over time.

An inquiry into:

-Evolution of mankind

-How stone age people lived

-How stone age people developed

The students studied the evolution of hominid species in depth, presenting seminars, a tool exhibit and a Fabulous Friday explanation of the development of man. As part of their study they worked as clans of early humans to experience the lifestyle of ancestors endured.

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