GRADE 5
Sharing
The
Planet
March 20th - May
5th
Central Idea
Actions can support or deny access to rights and
opportunities
Enduring Understanding
Students will work towards
gaining an understanding of
how different circumstances
determine access to
opportunities and how actions
can make a difference
Teacher Question
How can you make a
difference for yourself and
others?
Lines of Inquiry
Students will inquire into:
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How basic rights are granted or
denied
•
How actions can change access to
rights and opportunities
•
Circumstances that determine an
individual’s access to opportunities
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Causation
Co
Connection
Form
Social responsibility
Rights
Circumstances
Vocabulary
Circumstance
Action
Justice
Opportunity
Difference
Privilege
Injustice
Social Responsibility
Economy
Politics
Culture
Family Circumstances
Self management Skills
Informed choices
Students will be better equipped to take an appropriate course of action in
terms of making a difference and utilizing the opportunities they are presented
with
Research Skills
Formulating questions
Students will formulate questions based on their curiosity about people's rights
and responsibilities around the world.
Presenting
Students will create a presentation for their peers and teachers that will
communicate the findings of their inquires.
Social Skills
Accepting Responsibility
Students will be able to a complete tasks in an appropriate manner, as well as
take on their part of the work during group tasks
MATHEMATICS
Pattern & Function
Gender
Rights
Empathy
Awareness
Integrity
Equality
Society
Attributes
Caring
Students will work towards showing sensitivity towards the needs and
feelings of others, which will lead to a personal commitment to action.
Knowledgeable
By exploring concepts, ideas and issues that have a local and global
significance, students will works towards developing an in-depth
knowledge about the central idea.
Attitudes
Empathy and Appreciation
Students will imagine themselves in another’s situation in order to understand
his or her reasoning and emotions and develop an appreciation that will lead to
action.
Tolerance
Students will develop sensitivity towards different situations and be responsive
to the needs of others.
Conceptual Understandings
•Functions are relationships or rules that
uniquely associate members of one set
with members of another set.
•By analysing patterns and identifying
rules for patterns it is possible to make
Predictions.
•Patterns can often be generalised using algebraic
expressions, equations or functions
I can...
Understand that patterns can be generalized by a rule.
Describe the rule for a pattern in a variety of ways.
Represent rules for patterns using words, symbols and tables.
Identify a sequence of operations relating one set of numbers to
another set.
Use number patterns to make predictions and solve problems.
Understand that patterns can be represented, analysed and
generalized using tables and graphs, and, when possible, symbolic
rules
Identify rules for patterns to predict future terms.
Use brackets and the order of operations (PEMDAS or BEDMAS) to
write and solve number sentences
Identify and describe properties of prime and composite numbers
Identify and describe properties of square numbers and a triangular
numbers.
What can you do at home?
• Collect news articles that are examples of
actions that support or deny people’s rights
and opportunities.
• Reflect on family holidays where you might
have seen people whose circumstance
were different to your own. How were they
different?
• Explore the BBC’s A World For Children
website to link ideas discussed in class with
real-life stories.
• Discuss actions that your family can make
to change access to opportunities for
others.