Energy Use and the SDGs
Summary Students will be starting a new unit under the transdisciplinary theme, Sharing the Planet. Student will be engaging in an inquiry into an issue in their local community. Student
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Grade 5 Social Emotional Systems Iceberg Model
Summary The purpose of this learning plan was to show students how their actions have an impact on their peers’ wellbeing. The goal is to change behaviour to facilitate a
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Grade 4 Sharing the Planet: Energy
Summary Grade 4 students inquire into how the use of energy impacts our environment and our lives. This lesson plan was completed in a diverse 4th grade classroom in Dhaka,
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How Might We Understand and Build a Concept of Sustainability at Qatar Academy Sidra?
Summary In this lesson sequence, we will use Qatar Academy Sidra’s guiding statements and sustainability-focused strategic objective as a provocation to explore our elementary teaching team’s collective understanding of the
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Year 4 Sharing The Planet – Intro to the Sustainability Compass
Summary This plan is a ‘tuning in’ activity to a new unit of inquiry under the transdisciplinary theme ‘Sharing the Planet’. The Sustainability Compass is used as a thinking tool
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Year Four Sharing the Planet
Summary In this lesson, Year 4 students learn about the basics of ecosystems, as well as the potential impact of invasive alien species on them. Some students have prior knowledge
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Importance of Water for the Purpose of World Water Day
Summary The plan is designed to work with 5-year-old children in a dynamic way, mainly outdoors and encouraging analysis and the importance of teamwork. The Sustainability Compass was used after
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Service Learning in the Classroom: Using Compass Education Systems Thinking Tools
Summary For students to expand the range of choices available for solving a problem by broadening their thinking and helping them articulate problems in new and different ways.
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Grade 10 Individuals and Societies: An Engaging Sustainable Inquiry on Megacities
Summary This tenth grade/MYP 5 Individuals & Societies lesson plan aims to provide students the critical thinking skills they will need to analyze the problems megacities face and to come
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Middle School Language Acquisition: Fast Fashion
Summary Students will use the Sustainability Compass and Systems Iceberg tools to explore the issues surrounding fast fashion, to help them plan and research for a piece of writing that
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