Economic Activity
Manchester International
School
Enhanced PYP Grade 4 (PYP 4) A
Vishnu Carthica (Vishnu) Guru Subbaian, Arya Devi VS,
Saranya C
Summary
Economic Activity
Subject
Mathematics, Social studies
Year
PYP 4
Start date
Week 3, October
Duration
7 weeks
Inquiry
The Central Idea
Through economic activities people connect locally and globally.
Transdisciplinary Theme
How we organize ourselves
An inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities
Economic activities and their impact on humankind and the environment
Lines of Inquiry
- Producing, distributing and consuming products or services
- Ethics in trading system
- Ways in which economic activity makes us interdependent
Student questions
- What is economy?
- What is the difference between business and job?
- What is mean by trade?
- How economical activities make us interdependent?
- How can we make money?
- How do people across the world trade?
- Why does money value change country to country?
- Why economy is important?
- What is GDP?
Teacher questions
- Identify how your parents make money?
- Differentiate the business and jobs that you know?
- Classify Professional, Entrepreneur and worker
- Describe your dream job/business and its characteristics.
- Analyze different jobs and the qualifications required for that.
- How does business connect the people across the globe?
- Discuss about international trading techniques
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Economic Activity
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Saranya C
- Identify the different types of business sectors and its uses.
Learning Goals
Connections: Transdisciplinary and Past
Know (content)
-Define economy
-Define the different types of economic activities
-Define Trading System
-Identify different trading techniques.
-Identify the trading workflow.
-Economic activities across the globe.
Understand (concepts)
-Functionality of trading systems.
- Define the process involved in producing, distributing, and consuming products or services
- Ethics in the trading system
Do (skills)
-Identify their parent's business/job.
-Make a flow chart of a business model.
-Posters on SDG 8 relevant to economic activities.
-Create a chart on different sectors of industries and their uses.
-Identify their dream job/business and create a qualification chart to achieve it.
Learning Goals and Success Criteria
My Job Presentation: Students will identify their dream job/business and create a qualification chart to achieve it. They will give
a oral presentation on the same.
Assessment Tool: Rubric
Assessment Criteria:
Organisational Skills
Content
Communication Skills
Connection
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Enhanced PYP Grade 4 (PYP 4) A
Economic Activity
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Saranya C
Scope & Sequence
Mathematics
Number
Conceptual Understandings
For fractional and decimal computation, the ideas developed for whole-number computation can apply.
Learning Outcomes
When constructing meaning learners:
model percentages
understand the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages
When transferring meaning into symbols learners:
read, write, compare and order percentages
When applying with understanding learners:
use mental and written strategies for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals in real-life
situations
estimate and make approximations in real-life situations involving fractions, decimals and percentages.
Social studies
Human systems and economic activities
Overall Expectations
will realize the significance of developing a sense of belonging and stewardship towards the environment, valuing and
caring for it, in the interests of themselves and future generations.
Conceptual Understandings
Assess the accuracy, validity and possible bias of sources
Learning Outcomes
analyse how individuals and communities needs and/or wants are met
evaluate the equity of different economic systems and marketplaces
develop criteria for ethical practices regarding products and services
explain how supply and demand are affected by population and the availability of resources.
analyse information about past technological advances and societal systems
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Manchester International
School
Enhanced PYP Grade 4 (PYP 4) A
Economic Activity
Vishnu Carthica (Vishnu) Guru Subbaian, Arya Devi VS,
Saranya C
Key and Related Concepts
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Key questions and definition
How does it work?
Function
The understanding that everything has a purpose, a role or a way of behaving that can be
investigated.
Why is it as it is?
Causation
The understanding that things do not just happen; there are causal relationships at work, and
that actions have consequences.
What are our obligations?
The understanding that people make choices based on their understandings, beliefs and
Responsibility
values, and the actions they take as a result do make a difference.
Developing IB Learners
Learner Profile
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
ATL Skills
Approaches to Learning
Communication Skills
Social Skills
Action
Student-initiated Action
Social entrepreneurshipProduct plan- Students will design and plan their product and promote it.
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Economic Activity
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Saranya C
Be an Entrepreneur - Students will set up the market (creating the infrastructure of a marketplace) with their products and sell
them.
Advocacy- Students will create advertisements for the product following ethics.
Assessment & Resources
Ongoing Assessment
Pre-unit assessment: Picture Illustration: Students will illustrate the CI through their picture.
LOI assessment I (FA1): Quiz: Students will attend the quiz on reading Non-fiction books using Google Forms.
Assessment tool: Rubric
Criteria: Presentation, Content, Knowledge, and understanding.
LOI assessment I(FA2): Concept Map: Students will read create a concept map showing how a product/service connects
the producers, distributors and consumers.
Assessment tool: Checklist (Peer feedback)
Criteria: Content, presentation and neatness, knowledge & understanding.
LOI assessment II(FA3): Word Wall: Students will create a word wall on vocabulary involved in a ethical trading system.
Assessment tool: Rubric
Criteria: Content, presentation, knowledge & understanding.
LOI assessment II(FA4): Flow Chart: Students will create a business flow chart on LOI 3.
Assessment tool: Rubric
Criteria: Content organization, presentation, Clarity, knowledge & understanding.
LOI assessment III(FA5): Choice Board: Students will choose a visible thinking routine choice to share their ideas on LOI 3.
Assessment tool: Rubric
Criteria: Problem solving, content, presentation and neatness, knowledge & understanding.
LOI assessment III(FA6): Comic strip making: Students will create a comic strip on the different types of economic activities
and the process involved in it.
Assessment tool: Checklist
Criteria: Creativity, presentation and neatness, knowledge & understanding.
LOI assessment I, II, and III(FA7): Crossword puzzle (Online): Students will solve the puzzle online and it will record scores.
Assessment tool: Rubric
Criteria: Problem solving, content, presentation and neatness, knowledge & understanding.
Making flexible use of resources
Dust Bowl Disaster- Informational (nonfiction), 1,937 words, Level X (Grade 5), Lexile 940L
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School
Enhanced PYP Grade 4 (PYP 4) A
Vishnu Carthica (Vishnu) Guru Subbaian, Arya Devi VS,
Saranya C
Tanya's Money Problem- Realistic (fiction), 1,776 words, Level U (Grade 4), Lexile 880L
We're in Business- Realistic (fiction), 1,082 words, Level R (Grade 3), Lexile 730L
All About Chocolate - Informational (nonfiction), 1,694 words, Level U (Grade 4), Lexile 990L
American Farms: Past, Present, and Future - Informational (nonfiction), 2,461 words, Level Z2 (Grade 5+), Lexile 1070L
A Christmas Carol (Part 1) - Classic (fiction), 2,894 words, Level Z2 (Grade 5+), Lexile 870L
Dust Bowl Disaster - Informational (nonfiction), 1,937 words, Level X (Grade 5), Lexile 940L
The Life of Cesar Chavez - Biography (nonfiction), 2,189 words, Level Y (Grade 5), Lexile 1060L
Malik Had a House - Realistic (fiction), 2,292 words, Level X (Grade 5), Lexile 660L
The Firefighter - Interview (nonfiction), 1,915 words, Level Y (Grade 5), Lexile 960L
Prehistoric Trade - Informational (nonfiction), 2,008 words, Level V (Grade 4), Lexile 990L
Genetics At Work - Informational (nonfiction), 2,175 words, Level Z2 (Grade 5+), Lexile 1100L
Labor Day - Informational (nonfiction), 1,281 words, Level V (Grade 4), Lexile 1050L
Nellie Bly - Biography (nonfiction), 2,084 words, Level Z2 (Grade 5+), Lexile 1150L
Page's School Report - Realistic (fiction), 1,481 words, Level U (Grade 4), Lexile 750L
Student Self-assessment and Peer Feedback
Some self-assessments and peer assessments that can be conducted during the learning are:
Quiz using Quizizz - Self-Assessment.
PPT presentation - Peer feedback using TAG format.
Business flow chart - Peer feedback using a checklist.
Learning Experiences
Designing engaging Learning Experiences
Stages
Stages
LOI
Strategies
Content
Online
/
Offline tool
Integration
Unscarmble
Students will unscramble the
words to frame the CI
Notebook
Literacy
Notebook
Literacy
CI
Unpacking
Students will list the vocabulary
Bundling
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could assist concept
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Enhanced PYP Grade 4 (PYP 4) A
Economic Activity
Vishnu Carthica (Vishnu) Guru Subbaian, Arya Devi VS,
Saranya C
development throughout the
unit.
LOI
Unpacking
1
Possible
Sentences
Students tune into texts and
prepare them to focus on the
information.
Brainstorming
Students brainstorm on the
three given words to frame their
LOI.
Unscramble
Students unscramble the words
to frame their LOI.
Notebook
Literacy
Picture Cards
Students split into groups and
pick the picture cards to
develop their LOI.(Visual Arts)
Notebook
Visual Arts
Jamboard
Social
Students interview their parents
to understand theeir business/
job nature and its qualities.
Flipgrid
Literacy
Students pick the discussion
cards containing names of
different trading systems and
try to list out their benefits.
Quizizz
Media and
technology
Word doc /
Media and
PPT
technology
Mind Mapping
Students will create a mind
map on the important keywords
from LOI 1 to distinguish the
production, distribution, and
consumption to
understanding.
Tuning In
2
3
Finding Out
1
Paired
Interviews
Discussion
Cards
T-Chart
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Notebook
Word
art.com
Literacy
Literacy
their
Students will create a chart on
the different sectors of the
economy and its requirement.
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Read ,
think
PPT
Literacy
to fill the questionnaire.
SWOT
Students do the SWOT analysis
Analysis
on Trade locally and globally.
2
Build a story
Students build the story about
their personal problems and
state the solution how they
sorted out and show their
understanding of ethics trading.
Adobe story
teller
Media and
technology
1
PPT making
Students will make a PPT on
their understanding of LOI 1.
PPT
Social
studies
2
Putting you in
the picture
Students are given scenario
cards and asked to respond
considering themselves in the
situation. (Trading Ethics)
Notebook
Social
Students will construct a
flowchart and explain how an
economic activity connects
people across the globe.
Flipgrid
Media and
technology
Huge
dice
with
different
questions on each face is rolled
and student tries to answer the
question.
Online
discussion
Social
Students
consider
one
difference they will make in their
life as a consequence of what
they have learned.
Notebook
Adobe
Council
Creating a business/job for
Online
Media and
Creation
them. Identify the qualifications
discussion
technology
Sorting Out
3
Making
Connection
Students read the book and try
and share.
2
Going
Further
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3
Oral
presentation
Bloom Box
Personal
Pledge
Taking
Creately.com
/
Media and
technology
Social
Action
3
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School
Enhanced PYP Grade 4 (PYP 4) A
Vishnu Carthica (Vishnu) Guru Subbaian, Arya Devi VS,
Saranya C
required for it.
Supporting Student Agency
This is how we implement the Student Agency in our classrooms.
VOICE
Student questions.
Actions taken by students as a result of learning.
Constructing/adding their activities in the process of unit
planning.
CHOICE
Visible
OWNERSHIP
Thinking
Routine.
Student-driven seminars.
Choice Board.
Oral presentations in global
projects.
Plan your activity.
Creating their portfolio.
Reflections
General Reflections
Looking Back
Saranya C Apr 15, 2021 at 6:11 PM
Students will create a mind map on the important keywords from LOI 1 to distinguish the production, distribution, and
consumption to show their understanding.
Students will create a business/job for them. Identify the qualifications required for it. It helps in improving leadership
qualities.
Students will perform the SWOT Analysis to help in analyzing trading ethics.
What opportunities will occur for transdisciplinary skills development and for the development of the
attributes of the learner profile?
Skills:
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Enhanced PYP Grade 4 (PYP 4) A
Economic Activity
Vishnu Carthica (Vishnu) Guru Subbaian, Arya Devi VS,
Saranya C
Social skills-Interpersonal relationships, social and emotional intelligence: Students will enhance these skills while
conducting interviews and setting up their ambitions for the future.
Communication skills-Exchanging information, Literacy: Students will develop this skill while collecting information
related to trading systems across the globe and presenting them using PPT.
Profiles:
Inquirer: Students will try to be good inquirers when they are conducting the interviews and giving oral presentations on
their ambition.
Knowledgeable: Students will exhibit their knowledge while sorting out the different processes involved in different
economic activities.
Looking Forward
Saranya C Apr 15, 2021 at 6:09 PM
Strengths:
Exploration with real life.
Goal setting for life.
Framing their business ethics.
Creating their own business and its plan.
Profit or Loss Calculation.
Usage of EdTech tools.
Challenges:
Creation of business plan.
Methods and processes involved in the business.
GDP report.
Opportunities:
Digital Tools.
Flipgrid to express their business plan.
Threats:
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Saranya C
Field Trip to trading centers.
Additional Subject Specific Reflections
Saranya C Apr 15, 2021 at 6:17 PM
Music:
Technology: Music App, software used in music composition. Composition and application of pitch and melody
using Instruments.
Visual Arts:
Business Flowchart sketching.
ICT
Creating: Create videos using Adobe and Flipgrid.
Edtech tools: Adobe, Canva, Google forms, Storyboard.
HINDI : Baralhadi rhyme(poem), Gathru gadha pathan wala ki khani namarta (story) ,Sangya, Sarvanam.
TAMIL: Thirukkural. Naduvu nilaimai Grammar - marabu sol, Differentiation of the Letters.En,thinai,paal, frame the new
word, Pandamatru murai.
PSPE
Health and fitness: Yoga,
Nutrition: Eating a Healthy
Breakfast, Hydration / Drinking water over sugary drinks.
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Vishnu Carthica (Vishnu) Guru Subbaian, Arya Devi VS,
Saranya C
Stream & Resources
Stream
1
Saranya C
Posted 3 files on Apr 30, 2021 at 8:38 PM
pg-9_microfinance_running_record.pdf
500 KB PDF Document
pg_37-51_samueldechamplainfatherofnewfrance_clr_ds.pdf
6 MB PDF Document
pg_19-33_chocolate_clr_ds.pdf
3 MB PDF Document
Link Resources
Saranya C
Posted 3 files on Apr 30, 2021 at 8:38 PM
pg-9_microfinance_running_record.pdf
500 KB PDF Document
pg_37-51_samueldechamplainfatherofnewfrance_clr_ds.pdf
6 MB PDF Document
pg_19-33_chocolate_clr_ds.pdf
3 MB PDF Document
Saranya C
Posted 4 files on Apr 30, 2021 at 8:36 PM
pg_37-51_samueldechamplainfatherofnewfrance_clr_ds.pdf
6 MB PDF Document
pg_19-33_chocolate_clr_ds.pdf
3 MB PDF Document
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pg_55-58_samueldechamplainfatherofnewfrnce.pdf
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pg-9_microfinance_running_record.pdf
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