This week we started our new unit of inquiry ‘How We Organise Ourselves’ with the central idea ‘exchange systems help our community’. In order to explore the idea of systems, we arrived to school and found many of our school systems were ‘broken’. Our name tags were not on the wall, the lights were off, the chairs were not in the correct place, there was no schedule for the day, no date and all the levelled reading books were jumbled up! After a few minutes of experiencing this confusion we gathered with Grade Two to discuss the cause and effect of systems. We then brainstormed different systems that we knew of and what the purpose of them is/how they help us. The next day, to tune into exchange and helping a community, we were given a task of building a tall decorate structure. We were divided into groups and each group had one resource except one group which had no resources. We had to work out how to exchange resources in order to get all the things we needed. Some of us decided to donate to the group that did not have any resources. During this activity we practiced the learner profile ‘caring’ and developed our social skills. It also helped us focus on SDG 10 ‘Reduced inequalities’. To explore SDG 5 ‘Gender Equality’ and exchange we were given a task of clearing up the blue blocks and stickle bricks from the quad. Afterwards we were given a reward...but the boys were given a much larger amount than the girls. This caused some confusion. We had a discussion about what was wrong, why it was wrong and what could be done to make it more equal. We also watched video about gender equality and answered some questions.
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