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__2nd Unit of Inquiry __
How We Organize Ourselves Central Idea : Our communities are made up of interconnected systems.

Grade 3 Gnome Hunt : Wednesday, 23rd November 2011 media type="custom" key="11444330"

Our summative assessment task was for each child to create their own city in 3D then talk about / elaborate on the interconnected systems that exist in their cities. Here are the work of the children.



Week 5 - 6 : Children have been working on creating their own cities. To finish this Unit on a fun/high note, children had a chance to explore the city centre while they hunt for gnomes. Some of the challenges they had were ; they had to find at least 25 gnomes and also there was one copulsory gnome that each team had to find, which was the 'Papa Gnome'. Chldren had a ball!

Week 4 : Once students have some knowledge of 'Interconnected systems' within the Wroclaw Community, they started to design their own unique city. The summative assessment task is for students to be able to talk about some of the interconnected systems in their city and explain how they are interrelated/iterdependent.

Week 3 : Children then looked at one of them, with the help of the computers, they identified what each system is in place for, what its functions/jobs/responsibilities are. They also needed to find out how it helps the people of Wroclaw and also what might or could happen if we didn't have any of those.

Week 2 : Children brainstormed and came up with many systems and buildings in Wroclaw etc that they could think of. Followed by catergorizing them to each category from, transport, buildings, shops and facilities. Children were also encouraged to come up with some wonders about the systems.

Week 1 : Children were introduced to the new unit of 'How We Organize Ourselves'. Before we do anything, I needed to share the definition of 'Interconnectedness' using an easy example so that children will have a good understanding of what it means.

Link to an online-simcity type game