How the world works

Year 4 - Term 2, 2024

Transdisciplinary Theme

'How the world works'

Central Idea

Understanding the way materials behave and interact determines how people use them

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

Throughout this unit the students will be attending Science lessons. These lessons will be creating hands on experiences for students to learn and explore different properties of matter and how they interact with them. Within the classroom students will create a word wall, investigating new and related words. They will define and recognise the properties of solids, liquids and gases. Students will understand the changing states of matter and will explore reversable and irreversible physical and chemical changes.

Students will have opportunities to work collaboratively making connections between the knowledge they have gained about the different states of matter, and the reflections we need to make to ensure that how we use materials in our world considers environmental impacts.

Concepts

Form
Function
Change

Lines of Inquiry

The different forms of matter
The way matter works
The way matter can change
The way we use matter

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 class-rooms. If you see your child/ren taking independent action at home, please encourage them to share their action with their class.