Concepts

**﻿Concepts: what do we want students to understand?**  In PYP there is a commitment to a concept-driven curriculum as a means of supporting inquiry. The IB has identified 8 concepts that are important in the design of a transdisciplinary unit. These are: Since inquiry is a vehicle for learning in the PYP, the natural way to present concepts is in the form of open-ended questions. There are related concepts in the subject areas that deepen an understanding while providing further opportunities to make conncections between disciplinary and trandisciplinary learning.
 * form
 * function
 * causation
 * change
 * connection
 * perspective
 * responsibility
 * reflection

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">You can find tables that explain each concept from both the generic perspectice and the perspected for each subject on the following pages in Making the PYP Happen.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Language page 75
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Mathematics page 87
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Science page 98
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Social Studies page 108
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">PSPE page 119
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Arts page 133

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Making the PYP Happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education