A Unit of Inquiry usually lasts for 6 – 8 weeks and the objective is to cover all 6 themes through the school year. For example, during the Unit “Sharing the Planet” KIS students may spend 6 weeks looking at the resources we have in the world and how various countries use, share, and dispose of these resources.  Students will answer questions like: How do these resources connect people around the world? Or, how are these resources changing and what does that mean for people? These concepts and questions move across all school subjects (i.e. math, English, geography, etc.) and apply to real life and the world around us.

These themes or Units of Inquiry provide a framework on which our teachers build students’ knowledge at KIS. With the IB PYP, the priority is not on completing a set of textbooks, but rather the emphasis is on a wide variety of resources from which teachers and students extract knowledge, develop understanding, and explore ways of applying that to real life.