Marketplaces

Our second unit for this year is on How We Organize Ourselves.

Grade 3 and 4 are exploring the Central Idea that people share their responsibilities in communities through offering goods and services in marketplaces.


Our first line of inquiry with this Transdisciplinary Theme is into how humans consume a variety of goods and services .

For this unit we are going to be Entrepreneurs.

We began by unpacking and sketchnoting this unit's Learner Profile attributes and asking "How can we be Principled / Communicators as Entrepreneurs?"

Then we jumped into an exploration of needs and wants.

Each learner was provided with a shopping list and some finances by their parents. We took a trip to Toho supermarket where Grade 3 & 4 needed to use their applied mathematics to budget. 

When we returned to school, we sorted all our items as either a want or a need.

We are considering the Concept of Form - 'What is it like? How can we describe it?'
and seeking to understand some key terms related to our Central Idea.

We develop this shared understanding through vocabulary studies, reading texts, asking other members of the community and having discussions.

The next layer of inquiry is into how this really connects to our lives in meaningful ways.
We will consider first How goods are produced and then How goods and services are exchanged. All the while, growing as entrepreneurs.