Overview Unit 1 2009

PYP

At GAISSeptember 2009

Preschool “Who we are”

Displays of the Unit Inquiries

Displaying the Attitudes

Working with the Learner Profile• Students define each attribute of

the learner profile

• Students draw and write what it means to be caring

Grade 4 Grade 1

Grade 1

• Preschool students add their name on a leave when they displayed a certain attribute of the learner profile

• Grade 2 student divide peace sign into the 10 attributes of the learner profile and draw symbols on back

Grade 5: Inquiry into EvolutionWhat would life be like

on an island without tools or shelter

Write a diary entry about what it would be like!

How did people make fire? Why doesn’t it work for us?Sometimes a failed project isthe best lesson!

Art using natural materials

Grade 5 Classroom Displays

TimelineThis is what we know!

Grade 4 Where we are in place and time

Geography

History

Social Studies

German

English

IT

Math

Art

Subject Integration

Grade 1 learned more about schools in “How we organize ourselves”

Inquiry based learning

Pre- AssessmentWhat do we already know?

Learning to writeUsing letter combinations

How Key concepts/ related conceptsare being used across the subjects

Our Identity

Advertising of a product

Specials

Library

Music

IT

Working with the students

Getting ready for class

Lunch

Lunch Activities on Peace DayRecycling after Lunch

Vorschule during LunchPreschool getting ready for lunch

Fieldtrips

• Support understanding of central idea

• Helps students gain an understanding in an authentic setting

• Promotes social interaction and intercultural understanding

Mission StatementThe German-American International School (GAIS) mission is to

provide an outstanding international, bilingual education focused on inquiry-based learning with the goal to foster confident, creative and

responsible learners and global thinkers.

All we do at GAIS has to support this purpose.