AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Leading to a Bright Future

Year 4 Unit of Inquiry 2 Overview

HOW THE WORLD WORKS
Transdisciplinary Theme
How the World Works
Central Idea
Natural forces have an impact on the topography and life of our planet.
Concepts
Change, Causation, Connection
Related concepts
Geography, geology, tectonic, plate movement, impact, population, adaptation
Lines of Inquiry
Plate tectonics, volcanoes and earthquakes
How people adapt and prepare for natural disasters
The effect of natural forces on the world and people

English
Language
Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts
Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation
Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture
books, advertisements and film segments
Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs
Literature
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others
Create texts based on characters, settings and events from students own and other cultures using visual features,
for example perspective, distance and angle
Literacy
Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view
Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a
variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume
Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence
Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic
knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on
and self-correcting
Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts
featuring visual, print and audio elements

Mathematics
Number and Algebra
Apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup numbers to at least 10 000 to assist calculations and
solve problems
Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction
Recall addition facts for single-digit numbers and related subtraction facts to develop increasingly efficient
mental strategies for computation
Represent and solve problems using efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital
technologies
Describe, continue, and create number patterns resulting from performing addition or subtraction

Measurement and Geometry

Create and interpret simple grid maps to show position and pathways
Statistics and Probability
Interpret and compare data displays
Mandarin

Physical Education

Language Focus

In Physical Education this unit students will examine

striking skills. They will be involved in a variety of skill
instruction, activities and games that develop hand and
arm striking skills. Students will be exposed to a range
of sports that utilize striking skills such as badminton,
tennis, cricket and hockey.

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Animals and pets, L3, 4
Indicators
- learn daily animals and pets
- learn to express ones year animal
- learn to talk about pets one has
- describe animals by using body parts and simple
adjectives.

Vietnamese Language & Culture

Language focus: TIMES AND ACTION VERBS
Year 4 will continue their next VLC topics with Times and Action verbs. During VLC lessons, the students will
learn how to count to 60, ask and tell the times in Vietnamese. They will also learn 14 useful actions verbs and
apply their newly learnt vocabulary to describe what someone is doing in Vietnamese.
Culture focus: VIETNAMESE TEACHERS DAY
Vietnamese Teachers Day, focus on common activities and wishes.
Vietnamese National Curriculum
In unit 2, year 4 VNC will be continued on the 3 topics: The community, the countryside, the North, Middle and
South. Through these students will have chances to learn new vocabulary, new grammatical points, how to write a
longer paragraph as well as review the phonic.
Susan Barrett
Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Isabel Stanley
Nikki Tapara
AIS Year 4 Teachers