Transdisciplinary Theme - How We Organise Ourselves

Central Idea - Systems are Created to Meet Needs

An Inquiry into:

The types of human-made systems (Form)

The considerations involved in creating human-made systems (Function)

The impact of changing systems in response to needs (Change)

Provocation: Many of our classroom systems were disrupted! We realised very quickly that it was hard to go about our day without systems in place to help us organise ourselves. We recognised that there are systems all around us!

Changing the Classroom systems 

Students worked in small groups to evaluate current systems in our classrooms, determine how they may be improved, and design a plan to improve them. Then they set off to work to implement some changes. Some of the groups realised the importance of keeping the parts of the system that worked and making changes to the parts of the system that were no longer working.

Proposing changes to schools systems that are not meeting our community’s needs

We have been working extremely hard to improve two major systems in our school that have been identified as systems that have ‘broken down’. We evaluated the systems and identified the positives and negatives of each system. Individually, we chose either the schools “lost property system” or “line up system” and created a design proposing changes to the current system. We are hoping to persuade Mrs Brearley to implement some of our suggestions!