Our central idea is:
Hormonal changes during puberty allow for the possibility of reproduction.
Our lines of inquiry (help us to understand our central idea):
° Form: What hormones are and do
° Change: Physical and emotional changes from hormones
° Function: How humans reproduce
° Connection: How cells, hormones, puberty and human reproduction are connected
As mentioned during the parent-teacher evening, each week I will send you a fairly detailed email updating you on what we have learnt during the week and what we will be learning about in the next week to give you an opportunity to discuss with your child their understandings of changes they will experience during puberty and sexual reproduction.
This week, we are enquiring into what cells and hormones are by looking at the role hormones play in the transformation of tadpoles to frogs and caterpillars to butterflies. By understanding what hormones do in bodies, next week we can take our understanding further by enquiring into the endocrine system.
The following 2 weeks, we will learn begin enquiring into the physical and emotional changes hormones create in the human body during puberty (The PE teachers will be focusing on social changes that may occur during puberty).
After learning about how puberty prepares the body for the possibility of reproduction, we then will enquire into the sexual reproduction systems and the following week how babies are created and develop in the womb.
The final weeks of the unit are open to children to enquire into topics of their own interest related to the central idea.
Throughout the unit, should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
In literacy, we are focusing on the reading strategy: Determining Importance
Our writing focus is explanation text writing.
In maths, we have begun our unit enquiring into the central idea:
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