PYP Approaches to Learning

Social Skills
Think about your personal values and what makes you feel safe
and happy.

Create an Essential Agreement with the people around you to

PYP Approaches
help everyone feel safe and happy in their environment.

to Learning Our Class

Essential Treaty
Agreement
Challenge Cards We want our class to be a fair and happy place.
So we promise to...
• Follow instructions first time, every time
• Follow instructions to keep ourselves safe:
• Take care of each other
• take care
• Concentrate andof eachto
listen other:
all adults
• Keep the• classroom
show active listening:
tidy and organised
• Be
• keep the kind andtidy
classroom friendly
and organised:

• be• Be persistent
kind and friendly:
• Do our best
• be persistent:
• Respect ourselves and others
• do our best:
• Be patient
• respect ourselves and others:
• Be happy and have fun!
• be patient:

• be happy and have fun!

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Social Skills Research Skills

With a buddy, discuss a time that you have had a conflict with Conduct a science experiment and make observations.
someone else.
Predict what you think will happen before you do the experiment,
What happened? How did you resolve the conflict? then record what you observed during and after the experiment.

Role-play the situations you discussed, showing how they could

have had a negative outcome, and how they could have had a
positive outcome.

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Research Skills Thinking Skills

Survey a group of people about what they would like to improve Think of a problem in your environment that you would like to
in their local environment. try to solve.

Present your findings as a graph of your choice. Share your Work through a design process to come up with a solution to
research with someone who is in the position to put the findings the problem.
into action.
How can you take action to solve this problem in real life using
your design?

Design Process
!
Ask Imagine

What’s the problem?

!
What do you need to Think of ways to solve the
improve? problem and write them out.

Plan Create
Draw a
diagram
and
list the Put your plan into
materials action and make it.
you need. Test it out!

!!
!?? !
Improve Share

Assess your results. What

improvements can you make?
Make it again with your
changes. What have you discovered?

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Thinking Skills Communication Skills

Look at the different learning styles. Which one do you find the Think of a book, movie or TV show that you have read or
easiest for your own learning? Why? watched recently.

Talk to a buddy and find out which one they prefer and why. Communicate with a buddy how you felt about it in the style
Do you learn best in a similar or different style to your buddy? of a review.

Take turns viewing and presenting your reviews.

A TV Show Review by Your star rating for this TV show

Title:

Plot What happens? Are there any plot twists? Characters Who are the main characters?

Visual Auditory
Did you find the plot interesting? Who was your favourite character? Why?

Graphs Podcasts
Illustrations One-on-one coversations
PowerPoints Group discussions Your opinion Did you like the TV show? Recommend Would you recommend this TV show

Videos Oral presenations What was your favourite part? Why? to a friend? Why or why not?

Pictures videos
Articles

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Hands-on Activity
Role-playing
Note-taking
Walking Meetings

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Communication Skills Self-Management Skills

Create a presentation about one of the Units of Inquiry you
have taken part in this year.
Decide how you will communicate your learning.
Share your learning with classmates, friends or family.
Think of a goal you have for yourself. The type of goal you set
for yourself is your choice - it does not have to be a learning
goal.
Create a way to plan and track the journey towards your goal
or use a goal-setting template to guide you.

Who How We
Express
We Are Ourselves

How We Where We Are

Organise in Place and
Ourselves Time

Sharing the How the

Planet World Works

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Self-Management Skills
For a whole week, complete a mindfulness activity each day.
You could try some mindful breathing, brain-break activities
or relaxation exercises.

Sometimes we feel frustrated and overwhelmed, or find it hard

to focus. Being mindful will help you to manage yourself in
these situations.

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