PYP Springboard inquiry boxes can be used flexibly by teachers and students of the International Baccalaureate® Primary Years Programme, supporting a school's inquiry programme and the teaching of the units of inquiry.
The Ourselves Inquiry Box is for ages 6-9. It contains a collection of mixed-ability non-fiction books to enable students to practise research skills and explore their own lines of inquiry within the unit. The teacher's manual gives guidance and support offering:
- Links to the appropriate transdisciplinary themes and skills, key concepts and PYP attitudes
- Suggestions for central ideas
- Questions to ask the students to provoke meaningful discussion and inquiry
- Ideas for learning engagements
- Flexible assessment sheets and research organisers
- Formative and summative assessment ideas
- Links to the learner profile
- Links to other disciplinary concepts.
- Provides age-appropriate non-fiction books, including books for more/less able readers, to be used flexibly by the student for inquiry but not constrained by grade or level.
- The series covers a broad range of units, reflecting the variety found within IB® schools' programmes of inquiry and addressing some of the more challenging units to resource.
- The manual contains non-prescriptive, flexible support for the teacher to use and adapt to develop strong units of inquiry.
- The author is an experienced PYP practitioner and the series editor is well- respected PYP expert, Simon Davidson.
Themes |
Who we are |
Where we are in place and time |
How we express ourselves |
How the world works |
How we organise ourselves |
Sharing the planet |
Age |
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Early Years |
Food |
Friends and relationships |
I like books |
Shadows and light |
Signs and symbols |
What is waste? |
(3-6) |
9781444147421 |
9781444147391 |
9781444147438 |
9781444147353 |
9781444147476 |
9781444147339 |
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Lower Primary |
Ourselves |
The solar system |
Authors and stories |
Matter and changes |
Our school and community |
Recycling our world |
(6-9) |
9781444147469 |
9781444147490 |
9781444147377 |
9781444147452 |
9781444147407 |
9781444147346 |
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Upper Primary |
Beliefs |
Maps and exploration |
Art and expression |
Simple machines |
The world of work |
Resources supply and demand |
(9-12) |
9781444147384 |
9781444147445 |
9781444147322 |
9781444147360 |
9781444147483 |
9781444147414 |
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