UOI 6 Front Loading Activity

Year 4 at Global Jaya School has just begun our last UOI.  We are doing UOI 6 under the Transdisciplinary Theme of How The World Works.  We will be looking at natural disasters and how humans prepare, react to, and try to minimize their damage.  As part of our UOI provocation, we had a guest speaker join us.  We were lucky enough to have Pak Sean join us.  He is a city and urban planner working for Stormont Partners in Canada.  Pak Sean was able to teach and explain to us about what goes into city planning in terms of preventing and planning for natural disasters along with continued growth of a city.

Video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/103S9lFO-ySzaXKII089u2caym2ObNsNt

In addition, Year 4 at Global Jaya School has been adapting to online learning very well over the past few weeks.  We are using a variety of resources such as the Google Suite to communicate and turn in our work alongside ManageBac, National Geographic to learn about natural disasters, and Khan Academy to supplement our learning of math, story-telling and narrative writing, and other student-initiated inquiry in a variety of subjects and topics among other online resources.  We have also continued to do different mindful activities that will help us prepare to learn while not always using gadgets or screens.  One of the student’s favourite activities was making cloud shapes from the sky and sharing those with each other.

Pak Mike – Year 4 teacher