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Year 6 Exhibition 2015

Dear Year Six Student,
The PYP exhibition is an important event for Year Six students at
our school. It is a term long unit of inquiry designed, planned,
run and presented by you and your classmates. Participating in
the exhibition will showcase the skills and understandings you
have developed over your years in primary school.
The exhibition will involve many other people your friends,
classmates, teachers, family and the school community. While
you will be supported at all stages of the Exhibition journey, it is
up to you to make the most of this exciting unit of inquiry.
You will be assessed at all stages of the exhibition, with your
planning, commitment, enthusiasm and organisation being as
important as your final presentation items. You will be
communicating with each other, reflecting together and taking
responsible action individually and as a year level.
This exhibition is an exciting opportunity for you to show us what
you are capable of. It is your chance to explore issues that you
feel passionately about and develop your understandings of local
and global problems. The more you put into this term, the more
you will get out of it.
We wish you all the best in this important event. We know that
you will do a great job if you stay focussed and committed, giving
yourself every chance to be proud of your achievements, sharing
them with your classmates, friends, family members and the
school community.

Mrs Loveridge

Mr Burch

Mr Arndt

 PERSONAL ESSENTIAL AGREEMENT

An essential agreement is a document that helps guide behaviour and motivates you to do your best
at all times. This term it is vital that you are proud of who you are and what you achieve
independently and as a year level.
Below are the PYP Attitudes attributes we hope you have learnt to demonstrate in your lives at
school and in the community. Use these as a guide to help you write your personal essential
agreement for the duration of the exhibition.
I agree to the following statements that will help me do my best during the Year Six 2014 Exhibition.

Appreciation
Commitment
Independence
Confidence
Tolerance
Cooperation
Creativity
Curiosity
Integrity
Respect
Empathy
Enthusiasm

Signed (student) Signed (teacher) . Date ..

TRANSDISCIPLINARY THEME:

SHARING

THE PLANET

An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other
people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between
them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.

What are some Sharing the Planet issues or inquiries that you might want to
explore? Are they local, national or global?

If you are interested in more than one issue or inquiry, can they be combined?

What do you already know about these issues?

Why are these issues particularly interesting to you?

 OUR EXHIBITION CENTRAL IDEA:

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A central idea is the big idea at the centre of a unit of inquiry. It is an enduring
understanding that could be explored in depth at any age or ability. It is challenging
and engaging, covering a range of big ideas and concepts.

EXHIBITION INQUIRY AREA / ISSUE I AM INQUIRING INTO
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My Inquiry Group Members

LINES OF INQUIRY
Each inquiry unit has three or four lines of inquiry. You will write your own lines of Inquiry in
your exhibition group. Lines of inquiry:

Should be broad and easy to understand

Help explore the central idea
Focus on specific areas of inquiry
Deepen understandings
Connect with each other through the central idea.

Our lines of inquiry

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INQUIRY QUESTIONS
Inquiry questions are important to help guide our inquiry and research. Before we begin the
inquiry, we need to know what we want to find out or discover. Inquiry questions need to:
Be interesting and engaging * Unable to be answered in one period
Link closely to the lines of inquiry * Explore the central idea
Open ended with room to evolve * Direct us to detailed & thoughtful answers
Below is a table to help shape your inquiry questions. With your group, write at least two questions for each line of inquiry.

Line of Inquiry:

Line of Inquiry:

Line of Inquiry:

Line of Inquiry:

<< Highlight the questions that each member of your group will be mainly responsible for >>

(It is allowable that two people work together on a question, but you must have at least one question that is
exclusively yours to plan, explore and present)
I am happy with the inquiry questions that my group has formulated.
Signed (student).

Signed (teacher) ..

KEY CONCEPTS
Each unit of inquiry explores big ideas and understandings. These are called Key Concepts.
They are like lenses that help us look at information in different ways. These are listed below.

Form (What is it like?) * Function (How does it work?)

Change (How does it change?) * Causation (Why does it happen?)
Connection (How are things linked?) * Perspective (What are the points of view?)
Reflection (Why is this the case?) * Responsibility (Who is responsible?)

The key concepts are used to help focus our inquiry questions and provide us with different
ways of tackling these broad and interesting questions.
Be CREATIVE and OPEN MINDED to see how you can link these concepts to your inquiry
questions. Link a maximum of TWO concepts for each question.
Inquiry Question

Linked Key Concepts

Our inquiry questions cover a wide range of the key concepts and I have a better understanding of how they
are important.
Signed (student) Signed (teacher) ..

TRANSDISCIPLINARY SKILLS
During your years of primary education you have grown as a student, developing your talents and skills.
These skills are important not just in Year Six, but also in secondary school and in your life-long learning.
These important skills cut across all of your subject disciplines hence the term Transdisciplinary Skills.
The exhibition is a chance for you to focus on your skills. There will be chances for you to showcase the skills
you are already good at, and also many opportunities to develop skills that you would like to be better at.
Which of skills would you consider to be a strength? Which would you like to improve during Exhibition?
Transdisciplinary Skill Area

Details
Comprehension grasping meaning
Analysis - looking at details

THINKING SKILLS

Evaluation Making judgements or decisions

Dialectical Thought Seeing two or more points of view
Application Using knowledge in new ways
Acquisition of Knowledge Gathering new information

Being Responsible
Respecting Others

SOCIAL SKILLS

Cooperating
Resolving Conflict
Group Decision making
Flexibility

Listening
Speaking

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Reading
Writing
Viewing
Presenting

Gross Motor Skills large muscle groups, dancing and movement

Fine Motor Skills precise hand movements, drawing and making

SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS Organisation Planning and committing to the task

Time Management Using time effectively
Informed Choices Making the correct decision based on facts

Formulating Questions
Observing

RESEARCH SKILLS

Planning
Collecting Information
Recording Information
Organising Information
Interpreting Information
Presenting Information

REFLECTION JOURNAL
Reflection is such an important part of any inquiry. Reflecting constructively on
your progress throughout the term on your exhibition will be useful for you, your
group and your teacher.
Making weekly journal entries about all your ideas, problems, skills, decisions and
actions will help you keep on track. It will be a detailed record of your progress, it
will document the work you have been engaged in as well as show how your
understanding of your issue is developing.
The following section of your Exhibition Journal will document your weekly
reflections. They will be read and commented on by your teacher and assessed.

<< Weekly Journal Reflection >>

Week ..

What new knowledge do you have this week?

Have you had any problems this week?

What has been the highlight for the week?

What do you want to achieve next?

Any further reflections? Emotions? Questions? New Understandings about yourself?




Teacher comments

<< Weekly Journal Reflection >>

Week ..

What new knowledge do you have this week?

Have you had any problems this week?

What has been the highlight for the week?

What do you want to achieve next?

Any further reflections? Emotions? Questions? New Understandings about yourself?




Teacher comments

EXHIBITION PRESENTATION THINKING AND REFLECTION

FORM
What will my display look like? What will attract viewers to my display? How will my display be
unique and memorable? What visual items do I need to create? What materials do I need?

FUNCTION
How will we display our lines of inquiry and questions? How will we display our concepts? How will
we share our action?

PERSPECTIVE
Who are the different audiences? What questions will each audience ask? What will my answers
be?

CAUSATION
What will help people remember your inquiry? What will cause them to stay and learn more? What
will help share your learning visually and verbally?

EXHIBITION PRESENTATION THINKING AND REFLECTION

CONNECTION
How will we connect all our ideas and information together? How will we present as a connected
team? How can we connect our questions to our information and to our action?

REFLECTION
How will we show our exhibition journey? How will we show how our skills and understandings have
developed? How will we show that we are reflective learners?

RESPONSIBILITY
Who is responsible for the various elements of the inquiry presentation? Who needs to organise the
different tasks? Who is responsible for making sure that all of the essential elements are shown?

CHANGE
Having shared the above ideas with my teachers and mentors, how have my ideas changed? What
can change to make sure that the inquiry is presented professionally and in an engaging way?

MY EXHIBITION INQUIRY DESIGN AND FORMAT

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