Beaumaris North PS

How The World Works

Year 1 - Term 1B, 2025

Transdisciplinary Theme

'How the world works' 

Central Idea

The weather affects our lives and the environment

 

As an International Baccalaureate world school, authorised to teach the Primary Year’s Programme, we explore six transdisciplinary themes each year. 

 

Our second unit for the year provides the opportunity for students to explore weather and the impact weather can have on people and the environment. They will explore what makes up the weather, how different types of weather are formed and how we can record the weather. The unit begins with some hands-on science experiments to get the students wondering about weather and how it is formed. 

 

Throughout this unit we encourage the students to watch the nightly weather forecast and discuss how the weather affects our daily lives.  We discuss and record weather patterns throughout the duration of the unit both in Melbourne and around the world.

Concepts

  • change
  • causation
  • form

Lines of Inquiry

  • The meaning of weather
  • The way the weather affects the way we live (global impact)
  • Changes in weather patterns

Action

Action in the PYP is initiated independently by the student as a result of the learning process. Action may be bringing a book or artefact related to the inquiry to school, or student-initiated drawings/posters/research. We celebrate our students’ ACTION every day in our classrooms. If you see your children taking independent action at home encourage them to share their action with their class.

Learner Profile Attributes 

Year Ones will be developing and demonstrating the attributes of the Learner Profile. In this unit our focus will be on:

  • reflective
  • communicator

Approaches To Learning

  • Research: observing, collecting and organising data

  • Interpreting and presenting data research – Throughout this unit students will learn about symbols and what they represent and how to represent data in simple bar graphs

  • Students will present their findings in the form of a Weather Report to the class to assist in developing their speaking and listening skills

Whole School Focus

  • risk-takers

 

The Year 1 Team

Jenna
Kristy
Jenna
Kristy

Mrs Jenna Horler, Mrs Kristy Smith,  Mrs Debra Ball and Ms Nicole La Gerche