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Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate At the beginning of the Middle Primary's unit into Communities I asked students to think of all the groups they belonged to in order to start thinking about the variety of communities there are and what this concept means. They used the routine Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate in groups of three. This generated a lot of ideas and a good starting point for our unit.

At the beginning of the unit Sharing the Planet the Middle Primary Class used the Chalk Talk routine to explore the transdisciplinary theme of the same name. Out of this came the reflection that we needed to be clear about the concepts 'rights and responsibilities', so we explored these further straight afterwards.

Think / Puzzle / Explore At the beginning of the exhibition unit Sharing the Planet the Senior Primary Class used the Think / Puzzle / Explore routine to explore our theme of Sustainability. The routine offered valuable insights into the students prior knowledge and understandings of sustainability, it also highlighted some misconceptions. The students then used the routine as a way to generate ways to explore and deepen their understanding about Sustainability. The explore part of the routine was adapted to allow for a focus on researching the topic of sustainability.