Our Discovery Curriculum In Action YEAR 3

Year 3 Discovery Units

CREATING OUR COMMUNITY – LEARNING TO LEARN

How will we create our class community? How can we ensure everyone feels welcome, included and challenged? What strategies help us learn best?

In this unit, the students work together to decide what community means to them and how their classroom will represent this. Together they explore how their attitude can best support their learning and how they can be the best classmates possible. The students build on the great learning they did in Year 2 to develop a growth mindset. They will recognise the importance of challenging themselves and learning from mistakes.

CONCEPTUAL LENS & KEY CONCEPTS

Interactions

Community, Belonging, Growth Mindset, Process, Learning, Beliefs, Values, Relationships, Technology, Systems, Balance, Responsibility

Subject Drivers

Learner Skills, Inquiry, Metacognition

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE – HOW DID THEY CHANGE THE WORLD?

What does it mean to be significant, and how can this impact and change society?

In this unit, the students explore how someone becomes significant, answering questions such as: ‘How do people’s qualities and actions determine the effect they can have?’ and ‘How does their place in time and history determine the impact they can have on the world?’ They are invited to take a journey into the lives and times of significant people and explore how those people changed the world through their actions and beliefs.

CONCEPTUAL LENS & KEY CONCEPTS

Perspective

Significance, Society, Beliefs, Values, Time, Choices, Actions, Creativity, Experimentation, Process

Subject Drivers

History, Art