PYP Springboard Teacher's Manual:Simple Machines
No. of pages 32
Published: 2011
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This Teacher's Manual provides guidance and practical suggestions on how to deliver the unit of inquiry. Each manual includes links to the appropriate transdisciplinary themes and skills, key concepts, PYP attitudes and learner profile to save you valuable preparation time.
It is also included as part of the relevant Inquiry Box with a selection of age-appropriate fiction and non-fiction.
This book has been graded for interest at 14-16 years.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Hodder Education .
Simon Davidson currently works as independent educational consultant, supporting schools with evaluation, leadership and curriculum development. He has had a variety of roles in international education, including founding the International School of Como as head teacher and working as a principal in Germany. He was editor of the book Taking the PYP Forward, with Steven Carber, which reviewed a wide variety of areas of current best practice for PYP schools.
This book has the following chapters:
- : Box
- : Up to 15 fiction and non-fiction books
- : 32 page Teacher's Manual
- : A4 list of the books in the box (for reference)
- : Manual
- : Series overview
- : What is our purpose?
- : Links to the transdisciplinary themes
- : Main ideas of the unit
- : Central ideas
- : What do we want to learn?
- : Key concepts
- : Tips on how to guide lines of inquiry
- : KWL chart
- : How might we know what we have learned?
- : Assessment opportunities
- : Ideas for formative assessment
- : Ideas for summative assessment
- : Assessment good practice
- : Assessment sheet
- : How best might we learn?
- : Tuning-in activities
- : Ideas for learning engagements
- : Disciplinary concepts
- : Transdisciplinary skills
- : Example Research Organiser
- : PYP attitudes
- : What resources need to be gathered?
- : Resources and the classroom environment
- : Aspects for English language learners
- : Supporting and extending students with learning differences
- : Planner ideas
- : Assessment and research sheets