Year 5 Exhibition

Group Learning Journal

Well being differs for individuals and can be
achieved in many ways

April - June 2011

The purpose of this journal is to record your groups journey from

the beginning of the exhibition through to its end. The following
contents are directly related to the elements of the Primary Years
Programme. This journal should be maintained, as it will be part
of your final assessment for the exhibition.
CONTENTS
1

Exhibition Overview

Brainstorming and Mind mapping

Choices under consideration

Final choice selected and questions for research

Timeline

Weekly planning sheet

Mentor/ Teacher Record sheet

Knowledge gained

Skills applied throughout the exhibition

10

Attitudes displayed

11

Reflections and how our journey linked to the

student profile

Exhibition Overview
Checklist
As you complete each progress checkpoint, please review the criteria list below and
assess to what extent you have achieved the criteria by checking one of the four
descriptors provided for each criteria.
CRITERIA

Brainstorming and Mind mapping

Choices under consideration
Final choice selected and development of open ended key questions

Group cooperation assessments

Group Reflections

Explanation of scoring:
4 - Excellent
3 Well Done
Thoroughly
More to be
completed
accomplished

2 Getting there
Much more to
do
Have to pick
up

1- Behind schedule
Need a reality
check
Little
accomplished
Need help
If your group scored a 2 or a 1 in any of the above criteria, please explain why and how
you will improve your performance in this area for the next checkpoint.

Brainstorming and Mindmapping

Inquiries under consideration

Inquiries under consideration for the exhibition are:

Factors that will affect our choice are:

Strategies we will use to make our final choice will include:

Our final selection

The inquiry points we have chosen to investigate for the exhibition
are

How we made the selection:

Questions that will guide us as we research these inquiries include

From the questions above we choose our key questions and categorized
them using the PYP key concepts chart below:
Form
What is it like?
Function
How does it work?
Causation
Why is it the way it is?
Change
How does it change?
Connection
How is it connected to other things?
Perspective
What are the points of view?
Responsibility
What is our responsibility?
Reflection
How do we know?

Well being differs for individuals and can be

achieved in many ways
Inquiry into:

Exhibition Title:

Key Questions:

Timeline
Schedule steps to completion on a timeline. This will help you,
your teachers and mentors to monitor your progress.

12 and 13 of May

17 May

Exhibition

Reflections on Exhibition

Weekly Plan

Mentor/ Teacher Record sheet

Record your groups meetings with your teacher or mentor here.

Date

Teacher/
Mentor

What was
discussed

Action

Knowledge Gained
Within this section of your group learning journal please attach the
knowledge you have gained to answer the questions you stated earlier.

Skills Applied during exhibition process

Using the organisational chart below, record the skills the group have used during
research.

Skill

Research
Skills

Definition
-

Self-management
skills

Thinking
Skills

Communication
Skills

Social Skills

Formulating questions
Planning
Observing
Collecting, recording,
organising and
interpreting data
Presenting research data

Fine motor skills

Spatial awareness
Organisation
Time management
Informed choices

Acquisition of
knowledge
Comprehension and
application
Analysis of
relationships
Synthesizing

Listening
Speaking
Reading and writing
Nonverbal
communication

Accepting
responsibility
Respecting others

When applied

Attitudes Applied during your exhibition process

Using the chart below, record the attitudes that your group have portrayed during your
research.

Attitude

Definition

Appreciation
Commitment
Confidence

Appreciating the wonder and beauty of the world and its people
Being committed to learning, persevering and showing self-discipline and responsibility
Feeling confident in your ability as learners, having the courage to take risks, applying
what they have learned and making appropriate decisions and choices
Cooperating, collaborating and leading or following as the situation demands
Being creative and imaginative in your thinking and in your approach to problems and
dilemmas
Being curious about the nature of learning and of the world, its people and cultures
Imaginatively projecting yourselves into anothers situation, in order to understand your
thoughts, reasoning and emotions
Enjoying learning
Thinking and acting independently, making your own judgements based on reasoned
principles and being able to defend your judgements
Having integrity and a firm sense of fairness and honesty
Respecting yourself, others and the world around them
Feeling sensitivity towards differences and diversity in the world and being responsive to
the needs of others

Cooperation
Creativity
Curiosity
Empathy
Enthusiasm
Independence
Integrity
Respect
Tolerance

Attitudes we portrayed

Final Reflections
During your Primary years at AIS and during this exhibition you have
been encouraged to display the attributes of the student profile:
Inquirers, Thinkers, Communicators, Risk-takers,
Knowledgeable, Principled, Caring, Open-minded, Balanced
and Reflective.

Now it is time to give us your final reflections on your Exhibition and on

your experiences within the primary school.
Our final reflections on the Exhibition

Final thoughts as we move on to the Middle School