Guide Entry to 24.03.05
With the ever-changing landscape of education, it is important to remember that physical brick and mortar structures are not the sole location for learning. Learning happens on many levels and within the individual themself. This unit will focus on the intrinsic value of learning with a journey outside of the classroom. Using their surroundings, community, culture and nature, students will explore poetry and its varying forms. To be clear, while poetry is not a new concept, the pedagogical pathway to guide students in their learning, practice and presentation of the topic will be. Through implementation of Place-Based Learning as well as Inquiry, children in grades four and five will search within themselves through question, exploration and the construction of knowledge through experience. In an effort to break away from the injection of knowledge through the mundane use of technology and teacher-led classroom styling, the students will forge their own way with contemplative observation, peer discussion and experience. They will retain their findings and reinforce their studies through writing, journaling and sharing. The culminating activities and events of this eight-week experience include readings of their own works of poetry, a visiting poet, and the publishing of their own collaborative book of poems.
(Developed for ELA, grades 4-5; recommended for ELA, grades 3-5)
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