Our new UOI can best be described as an inquiry into the interconnectedness
between human-made systems and communities.The most important system that humans use for organization is time. As our central idea indicates, an understanding of time impacts how we organize and manage our lives. Last week we tried to see the impact of not having time....at least to an extent. "Fluid time" was an experience whereby we removed all clocks from the classroom, and tried to function as normally as possible. We arrived early to music class, missed some of me-time, and were late for recess numerous times. Needless to say, the students quickly began to dislike the disorganization of fluid time. The students are writing about their experience in their living journal.
between human-made systems and communities.The most important system that humans use for organization is time. As our central idea indicates, an understanding of time impacts how we organize and manage our lives. Last week we tried to see the impact of not having time....at least to an extent. "Fluid time" was an experience whereby we removed all clocks from the classroom, and tried to function as normally as possible. We arrived early to music class, missed some of me-time, and were late for recess numerous times. Needless to say, the students quickly began to dislike the disorganization of fluid time. The students are writing about their experience in their living journal.
Time was also the focus in math this week. Understanding time begins with knowing that a day is a calculation of the rotation of the earth, and a year is the time it takes for the earth to travel around the sun. But in math, understanding time is knowing how to tell time on a face clock, but also how to convert seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months.
Time flies when we're having fun!
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