1. Five Organizing Elements
Areas of Interaction
Five Organizing Elements

2. Now known as
HUMAN INGENUITY

3. 1. Approaches To Learning- Key Questions
How do I learn best?
How do I know?
How do I communicate my understanding?

4. ATL Components Organization Collaboration Communication
Informational Literacy
Reflection
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Subject-specific Understanding
Interdisciplinary conceptual understanding

5. 2. Community and Service How do we live in relation to each other?
How can I contribute to the community?
How can I help others?
How are communities similar?
How can I make a difference?
How are communities different?

6. Community and Service
Starts in the classroom and extends beyond it, requiring students to participate in the communities in which they live.
Emphasis on developing community awareness and concern, sense of responsibility, and the skills and attitudes needed to make an effective contribution to society.

7. Community and Service Components
Sensitivity to needs of the community and society in general
Awareness of the role individual in society
A willingness to respond to the needs of others
An altruistic attitude which enriches the life of the student through enhanced insight into different social patterns and ways of life.

8. 3. Human Ingenuity Why and how do we create?
What are the consequences?
Man the Maker-Homo Faber

9. Human Ingenuity Components
Origin- individual desire to create, develop, or change.
Process- involved in the creation, development, or change.
Product- what has been created.
Context- placing the product in context.
Impact- impact of this creation on individuals, society, and the world.
Development- subsequent developments and change.

10. 4. Environment Where do we live? What resources do we have or need?
What are my responsibilities?

11. Environment Components
Natural and Manmade
Gravity and scope of environmental issues
Conservation and the role of local and international organizations responsible for protecting our environment
Concepts of sustainable development
Political and cultural dimensions of environmental issues
Ways in which environments are transformed
Controlled, preserved, or destroyed by people.

12. 5. Health and Social Education
How do I think and act?
How am I changing?
How can I look after myself and others?

13. Health and Social Education Components
Looking after ourselves
Health, diet, stress management, leisure and fun, mental illness
Understanding ourselves: need and wants, personal identity, emotional development, spiritual awareness, self assessment, accepting responsibility
Ourselves and others: interpersonal skills, relationship skills, understanding authority, class, family, community
Ourselves in the wider society: freedoms and responsibilities, cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic differences, racial prejudice and stereotyping, morals and ethics, consumer attitudes and behavior, world living standards, development issues, social justice.