What are cycles and where do they appear in our world?
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What are the costs and benefits of change?
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How do I create change?
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Who am I and who am I becoming?
Students will understand...
What is character?
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What is group identity?
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What makes a community?
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What is my role as a community member?
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How does communication occur?
Students will understand.....
What are the purposes of communication?
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What is conflict?
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What is harmony?
Students will understand...
What is my role in creating both conflict and harmony?
Students will understand...
How am I an inheritor of the past and a shaper of the future?
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What are the effects of technology on time and space?
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How do time and space vary among cultures?
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What defines work?
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What does it mean to be healthy?
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How are work and wellness connected?
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Chronology:
2012-13
4: Communities & Individuals
5: Communication
6: Change: Cycles & Trans.
7: Conflict & Harmony
8: Character & Identity
(Reorganized in 2012 so each grade level has year-long theme. Previously every grade explored the same theme each trimester)
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2011-12
-Communication
-Change: Cycles and Transformations
-Character & Identity
2010-11
-Communities and Individuals
-Time and Space
-Conflict and Harmony
2009-10
-Communication
-Change: Cycles and Transformations
-Character & Identity
2008-09
-Communities and Individuals
-Time & Space
-Work & Wellness
2007-08
-Communities & Individuals
-Change: Cycles & Transformations
-Character & Identity
2006-07
-Communication
-Time & Space
-Conflict and Harmony
2005-06
-Communities & Individuals
-Change: Cycles & Transformations
-Work & Wellness
2004-05
-Character & Identity
-Time & Space
-Conflict & Harmony
2003-04
-Communities & Individuals
-Communication
-Change: Cycles & Transformations
2002-03
-Work & Wellness
-Time & Space
-Conflict & Harmony
2001-02
-Communication
-Change, Cycles & Transformations
-Character & Identity
2000-01
-Communities & Individuals
-Time & Space
-Conflict & Harmony
1999-00
-Communication
-Change, Cycles & Transformations
-Character & Identity
1998-99
-Communities & Individuals
-Time & Space
-Conflict & Harmony
1997-98
-Communication
-Time & Space
-Character & Identity
1996-97
-Communities & Individuals
-Time & Space
-Conflict & Harmony
1995-96
-Communities & Individuals
-Change: Cycles & Transformations
-Time & Space
-Conflict & Harmony
-Communication
1994-95
-Love in a Time of Cholera
-The Search for Meaning
-Where Are My Car Keys