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4/6/2018 6 Comments

Adventure Challenge

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As I come to the end of my time here in Korea. I am in the process of planning a 'New' unit. This year in grade 6 we have decided to create an 'Adventure Challenge' unit. We want the students to plan an adventure challenge for a younger class. Aspects of adventure activities could include Rock Climbing, Orienteering, Archery and Parkour. We will concentrate on teaching Rock Climbing for a couple of weeks, then indulge in the other three. Maybe we might find something different to add too.

Our Key Concept is - Relationships, Related Concepts - Environment and Systems and Global Context exploration - Processes and Solutions. There are many aspects of ATL's that I think we should explore also as teaching tools. The ATL's fall under Social, Self-Management and Thinking. I also developed a Statement of Inquiry 'Whilst working with others in varied environments using different systems and processes can allow for solutions to become more visible during challenging tasks.'
​The assessment task is for students to create a rock climbing route using a variety of implements. They will also be creating an adventure challenge for younger students. They will be assessed through criterion B
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I usually look at the Key Concept first. We had a discussion about this but decided the students will be working together on the task so 'Relationships' would be the best key concept to concentrate on. The students have already worked with this concept and putting it into a different context would give them a broader understanding.

The Related Concepts of 'Systems' and 'Environment' came to mind because we knew the students would be working in varied environments and looking at different systems to work within when creating their plans.

The Global Context exploration was 'Processes and Solutions'. We felt looking through this lense would be appropriate for a task such as this as the planning aspect is a process and students would be coming up with solutions for many problems they may find on the way. Collaborating with their peers would sometimes cause conflict and they would have to come up with resolutions.
The ATL skills are as follows:

Social - ii) Collaboration skills - Delegate ad share responsibility for others - Exercise leadership and take on a variety of roles within a group. iii) Organizational skills - Create plans for summative assessments - Set goals that are challenging and realistic.

Self-Management - iv) Affective Skills - Perseverance/ Demonstrate persistence and perseverance - Resilience/ Practice 'bouncing back' after adversity, mistakes and failure.

Thinking - viii) Critical-thinking skills - Recognize and evaluate propositions - Evaluate and manage risk - propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
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I think these will all be important. Whilst we will probably cover others, I think it is important to focus on particular ATL skills when going through the unit to make sure you recognize, discuss and teach them well enough for students to take something away.

​Of course this unit will develop and we will reflect of how it goes at the end of the unit. As we go through this changes in MYP and take on the challenges that are presented with these changes, we need to adapt and look at different ways of approaching tasks as well as putting giving opportunities for students to 'think' and not just be asked to do something.

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Carla
4/16/2018 09:58:21 am

Best of luck. You always share good stuff. I am thinking of parkour/ risk taking/ how to fall (and get back up again) as well.

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Dom
4/17/2018 12:26:00 am

Thanks Carla for the message. I can send you details on the unit my physed team did on parkour in grade 9. Send me an email and I’ll share.

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Wilbert Kwakkel
4/27/2018 05:08:28 am

Hey Dominique, this looks like an awesome and very meaningful unit. I dont have the luxury to have a climbing wall at or near the school, But we do host a Parkour evening every two years. Students plan, design and perform a parkour/dance performance for the parents on this evening in collaboration with humanities. Perhaps we can share resources and assignments. Good luck!

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Fran Snowise
2/12/2019 01:14:01 am

Hey Dominique,

Just found you online and am very excited to share this with my MYP PE teachers. I have a question for you....we have designed a "ninja course" unit similar to what you have thought about here where the year 3 students create a course for the young ones and teach them how to do it. My question: do we have to have them come up with the idea on their own or can we say that we are doing a Ninja course, give them locomotor/manipulative skills and they have free reign to design their station. Does this work for a year 3 design assessment?

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Ladyboy Escorts New Haven link
3/25/2025 10:35:18 pm

This sounds like a really engaging and challenging project that encourages teamwork.

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Teknik Energi link
5/13/2025 11:11:14 am

In your opinion, what concrete steps can readers take to implement the information provided in this article?
Regard <a href="https://beee.telkomuniversity.ac.id/blogs/">Teknik Energi</a>

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