Key Concepts Questions PYP
Key Concepts Questions PYP
Key Concepts Questions PYP
FORM
MATH LANGUAGE SCIENCE
What does surface area mean? Where do words come from? Where is the science in cooking?
What are the differences between What does it really mean to listen? What’s it made of and why?
area and perimeter? What title would you give this text How do animals communicate?
What unit of measurement do we and why? What lives here?
use for area of large/ tiny shapes? What do you think the author is What is matter and how does it
What are some different ways to showing? behave?
count? What questions do you have about How are plants and animals the
What ways do we use math in what you read? same and different?
everyday life? What are the parts of a book? What are the elements of
WHAT IS IT LIKE? What is ‘equation?’ What are the ways stories can be ecosystem?
Everything has a form with recognizable
features that can be observed, identified, What is ‘fraction?’ told?
described and categorized. How can we describe time? What language do we use at
What is pattern? school?
FUNCTION
What are the advantages to a How do people tell their stories? How do scientists think and work?
base ten number system? How are symbols used to Where does it come from? Where
How well does a linear function fit communicate meaning? does it go?
all situations in real life? How do the pictures and the text What natural cycles and systems
work together? help keep our planet ‘working?’
How can we analyse data?
How do words make us feel? How does a circulatory system
HOW DOES IT WORK? How can we measure the area of Why do we name things? work?
Everything has a purpose, a role or polygons? How can words paint a picture? How does adaptation work?
way of behaving that can be What will happen if we add or How can we use non fiction to be
investigated. subtract number? better researchers?
What’s the worlds most useful How do languages work?
shape?
CAUSATION
Why are some mental strategies Why read fiction? What makes it move?
better to use than others? How can we create a great non What lies beneath us and why does
Why do we need so many types of fiction text? it matter?
graphs? What makes a great speech? What makes a great construction?
Why do we have a number system? What part does language play How does climate affect
WHY IS IT LIKE THIS? Why do I need mathematical in cultural identity? ecosystems?
Things do not just happen, that operations? What makes one writer more How does science influence sport?
there are causal relationships at Why do some calculations produce powerful than another? How does electricity work and how
work, and that actions have patterns? Why did the author write the story does it impact on our lives?
consequences. How was the place value the way it is? How and why does organic matter
system developed? decompose?
How do advertisements ‘work on
How does data influence others? How are living things connected?
us?’
What is the reason for the seasons?
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CHANGE
How are new types of graphs are How can props enhance How do living things change as
being invented? communication? they grow?
How did the metric system change How have languages changed How do plants change as they
the way we measure area? historically? grow?
When did people start using the How do we use language How do our bodies change over
new 10 base system? differently as we grow? time?
HOW IS IT CHANGING? How can we convert from the 12
hour to 24 hour clock?
How have other languages and How do living things survive in
Change is the process of cultures changed our language? changing environments?
How can you change one
movement from one state to How does technology change the How have different inventions
another. It is universal and quadrilateral into another? way people communicate? changed the world?
inevitable. How can I change the shape of a How does the land change?
shape?
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CONNECTION
mental subtraction? across? different types of rocks
How do we use graphs in real life? What are the similarities and (sedimentary, igneous, and
What is the relations between area differences between languages? metamorphic) be communicated
and perimeter? What are the origins of names? through an original piece of music?
HOW IS IT CONNECTED TO How are volume and capacity How are storytelling traditions What link is there between time of
OTHER THINGS? connected?
linked to culture?
day and the size of shadow?
We live in a world of interacting How/why do we measure volume in What are the similarities and
real life? How does the placement of objects
systems in which the actions of any differences between your local
What are the relations between [or people, shapes, etc.] within the
individual element affect others. work create feelings or focus, or ecosystem and a larger ecosystem
addition and subtraction? you have studied?
How are the four operations communicate ideas?
How do humans and other animals
connected?
relate?
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PERSPECTIVE
What strategies do adults prefer to What do authors do? What choices How do we know it is true?
use and why when adding do authors make? How do living things protect
mentally? Why do some books become themselves?
How do we know which types of bestsellers? How do scientist solve world’s
WHAT ARE THE POINTS graphs help understand data more Which language do you think is problems?
OF VIEW? easily?
How do we know where we are?
Easiest to learn? How do scientist see pattern?
Different perspectives lead to How can we show someone we are
What do graphs tell us? really listening?
different interpretations,
What is so weird about prime
understandings and findings;
numbers?
perspectives may be individual,
How do mathematician solve
group, cultural or disciplinary.
world’s problem?
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RESPONSIBILITY
How can finding pattern help us in What can fairy tales/ legends/ What makes the earth ‘work?’ and
saving world’s problem? myths/ fables teach us? how can we care for it?
What helps me stay more focused How can the use of language What things should we do to care
on a task? influence people? for our classroom plants?
WHAT IS OUR What might be the best way for me
How should we treat people who
How can we not waste water?
RESPONSIBILITY? to solve math problem?
Why measurement need to be speak different languages?
What should we do to be healthy?
People make choices based on What factors do you need to
accurate? Why are there some books or
their understandings, and the consider when designing a car?
What makes our answer websites that we are not allowed to
actions they take as a result do How could we design the most
reasonable? read? What gives words power?
make a difference efficient bicycle?
How could we use mathematics to
create a better world?
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