{"id":1021,"date":"2012-10-14T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T04:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.yis.ac.jp\/raskinj\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2012-10-14T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T04:19:38","slug":"climate-affects-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/2012\/10\/14\/climate-affects-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Affects Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second grade have launched into our second unit of inquiry of the year. This one falls under the transdisciplinary theme of: <strong>HOW THE WORLD WORKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Central Idea:<\/strong> Climate affects people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Concepts:<\/strong> function, causation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Concepts:<\/strong> systems (water cycle, weather), seasons, atmosphere, climate, weather creation: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, clouds; weather instruments, seasons<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lines of Inquiry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The water cycle and how it works<br \/>\nThe causes of weather<br \/>\nHow weather affects people\u2019s choices<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1022\" style=\"width: 345px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\" wp-image-1022 \" title=\"Student questions about hurricanes\" src=\"http:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2209-2036vfy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2209-2036vfy.jpg 478w, https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2209-2036vfy-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student questions about hurricanes&#8230; These launched two days of collaborative and independent inquiry, and got our new unit off and running!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The arrival of the typhoon a couple weekends ago was a great provocation to launch our inquiry and students did a whole bunch of research to answer their questions about hurricanes (aka typhoons).<\/p>\n<p>We will be doing a ton of inquiry into these topics over the coming weeks and you can support your child by engaging in discussions and explorations at home as well. Some families check the weather report together each morning, others actively discuss it when planning what to wear each day, or what to do on the weekend. Use your creativity and enjoy exploring together!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1023\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1023\" class=\" wp-image-1023 \" title=\"Exploring Air pressure\" src=\"http:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_3318-zkdgyv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_3318-zkdgyv.jpg 640w, https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_3318-zkdgyv-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students used measurement skills and water to explore concepts and attributes of air pressure.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During this unit we will also be exploring measurement in various forms, including linear, capacity and temperature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second grade have launched into our second unit of inquiry of the year. This one falls under the transdisciplinary theme of: HOW THE WORLD WORKS Central Idea: Climate affects people\u2019s lives. Key Concepts: function, causation Related Concepts: systems (water cycle, weather), seasons, atmosphere, climate, weather creation: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, clouds; weather instruments, seasons Lines of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-affects-peoples-lives","category-life-in-2r","category-units-of-inquiry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamjamie.me\/yis2r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}