Unpacking The Central Idea Unit 2

UNPACKING THE
CENTRAL IDEA
GRADE 1
2 ND U N I T O F I N Q U I RY
CENTRAL IDEA
C O O P E R AT I O N I S
E S S E N T I A L TO AC H I E V E
T E A M G OA L S .
LINES OF INQUIRY
• Understanding cooperation
• Planning team goals
• Interdependence while cooperating
Contents 4
Parents
3 Support
2 Field Trips,
Attitudes to Guest Speaker
Learning
1 Learner Profiles Social Skills, Self-
Open minded, Management Skills
Key Concepts Communicator
Causation,
Connection
Tuning In
Through various cooperative games and activities the students
will discuss the problems they are facing as a team and
brainstorm ways to do tasks better.
 While discussing they will be connected with the central idea :

Cooperation is essential to achieve team goals.
Developing conceptual questions
1. Why do we need cooperation? What does cooperation look like?
2. How to finish the job more quickly?
3. Why did you have so much difficulty to finish the game alone?
4. What makes working in groups fun? What can make it not fun?
After they unwrapped the central idea and developed questions
Finding out related to the concepts, students will be started discussing
about Understanding cooperation (1st inquiry)
Factory or School
company Departments
visit visit
Going Further Kids will understand that cooperation is a basic life skill
that helps us work successfully in groups and interact
harmoniously with others.
Things are important for a successful cooperation

Create an
action plan
as a team
Key concepts - Causation and
Connection
Why it is like this?
Think of a really good experience you had as a
English Language Focus
member of a group. What made it good? Why you
want to cooperate with others? Think of a bad Phonics
experience. What made it bad? What can you learn
from the comparison? c, k, e, h, r, m, d
For one week keep a daily record of all the things you do -phonics words
that require cooperation (at home, at school, and
everywhere else). At the end of the week give yourself a
-phonics stories
grade on how cooperative you have been.
Grammar
- plural nouns
- common and proper nouns
Writing
- capitalization
- punctuation
Key concept- Connection and Chinese language
中文UOI
1、确定“合作”这个主题线索，设计探究任务，了解语文Independence
我们为什么要合作？
Identify the "cooperation" theme clue, design the
1、汉语拼音学习，如何帮字母找到自己的家。
exploration task, understand why we cooperate?
分小组合作完成声母、韵母的区分和对比。
2、通过一些游戏让学生掌握合作的必要性，例如
Learn how to help letters find their own home.
让学生不同人数组成一组，认读汉字或者拼音。Let
Work in groups to distinguish and compare initials
students grasp the necessity of cooperation through
and finals.
some games, such as letting students form a group of
2、通过角色扮演让学生学会合作的方法和重要
different numbers to read Chinese characters or
性，包括课文《四季》《小松鼠找花生》《大小
Pinyin.
多少》等，也可以学习相关绘本故事。Through
role-playing, students can learn the methods and
importance of cooperation, including the text "Four
Seasons", "Little Squirrel Finds Peanuts", "How Big
and Small" and so on. They can also learn relevant
picture-book stories.
Attitudes to Learning – Social skills and PSPE
UOI and PE
1、《飞翔降落伞》，把学生分成8人一组，抓住降落伞边缘，一起合作
把球向上垫起，（小组讨论如何合作垫的更多）。
Flying parachute，Divide the students into groups of eight，Grab the edge
of the parachute，Work together to set the ball up，（Group discussion
how we can cooperate more ）。
2、《软式棒球》，把学生分成2人一组，进行两人对抛地滚球，通过合
作讨论来完成练习。
Soft baseball，Divide the students into groups of two，Two people throw
the ground ball，Complete the exercise through collaborative discussion。
Independent PE
1、队列队形：向右看齐 Queue formation：Look to the right
2、各种方式的追逐跑 All kinds of chase runs
3、双脚连续学小动物跳 Jump with both feet like a small animal
4、广播体操：《扩胸运动》 Gymnastics：《chest expansion exercise》
Attitudes to Learning –Self management skills and Music
Musicians works together to create music
one group
Break the
one group makes
kids into One group one group taps on sound with
four claps whistles their seats their
groups
kalimba
音乐教学（第二单元）
Music Teaching (Unit 2)
在教唱、舞台展示、自由创编的基础上加入了小乐器（响板、串铃、双响筒...），在歌唱的环
节通过加入小乐器，不仅可以提升学生的节奏感，还可以使整节课更加有趣味性，提升孩子
们的学习兴趣，更加可以锻炼他们的团队合作的意识，分组配合，默契的完成歌曲的伴奏。
On the basis of teaching and singing, stage display and free compilation, small instruments (ringboards, string bells, double loudspeakers etc.) are added
to the singing process. By adding small instruments in the singing process, not only students 'sense of rhythm can be enhanced, but also the whole class
can be more interesting, children's interest in learning can be enhanced, and their team can be trained. Consciousness of cooperation, group cooperati
on, tacit understanding of the completion of the song accompaniment.
Learner Profile
Open minded and Math
比一比Compare height or object

length
分一分Classification of Objects
认位置Determine the position of
an object
认识图形Understanding Graphics
Learner Profile Independent ART
Principled and Art
Theme: Modeling,
Materials
UOI and ART 1.Making Indian
figures with clay.
1.Work in groups to make a paper cup dragon 制作粘土印第安人物
(group discussion determines the overall color and pattern 2. Rubbing leaves &
design of the dragon) Adding them into
分小组合作制作一条纸杯龙（小组讨论决定龙的整 creative paintings.
体颜色和花纹设计拓印树叶并添画成创
2. Large acrylic painting of the universe 意绘画
(Each person draws the planet with the foam ball, the whole
3. Blow molding
class cooperates draws the cosmic background, pastes the
planet, completes the ultra large cosmic propylene drawing.) paper prints.
大型宇宙丙烯画. .吹塑纸版画
每人用泡沫球画出星球，全班合作画出宇宙背景，粘贴星 4. Creative bubble
球，完成超大幅宇宙丙烯画。 painting.泡泡创意
3. Build a city using 3D shapes 画
Cooperate in groups to build a three-dimensional city
(materials: colored paper and clay), and finally combine the
whole class into a big city. 建造3D城市
分小组合作建造一座立体城市（材料：彩纸、粘土），最
终全班组合成一座大的城市。
Parents Support
Field trip Guest Speaker
Kids will be visiting a factory

and after watching every
part of it they will be able to
understand that why
cooperation is needed for
every part of our life.

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UNPACKING THE

 While discussing they will be connected with the central idea :

Things are important for a successful cooperation

Musicians works together to create music

比一比Compare height or object

Field trip Guest Speaker

Kids will be visiting a factory

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