Japan 高校1年 Period for Inquiry-Based Cross-Disciplinary Study

1. Inquiry process

Setting a question from one's own way of life · Collecting information · Organising and analysing · Summarising and expressing

• Research Skills: From a Question to a Finished Project – Research is a careful way of finding an answer. You ask a clear, focused question, plan how to answer it, find information and check that each source can be trusted, collect and analyse your own data, draw a conclusion that the evidence supports, and share it while crediting every source you used.
• Organising and Analysing Information – After you collect information, you must make sense of it. Organise it: sort it into groups with one clear rule, count it, and put it in a table or chart. Then analyse it: compare groups, find the mode, mean, median and range, and say what pattern you see and what it does not prove.

2. Content set by each school (examples)

Cross-curricular modern issues (international, information, environment, welfare, health) · Local and school-specific issues · Career and ways of living

• Career Planning: From Knowing Yourself to Your First Job – Career planning has five steps. 1) Know yourself: interests, skills and values. 2) Explore career families and find out the work, study needed, pay and demand. 3) Plan a pathway with SMART goals and a plan B. 4) Search for jobs with a CV, cover letter, digital portfolio and interview practice. 5) Make the move from school to work and keep learning, because careers change over a lifetime.

3. Learning approaches

Collaborative inquiry and discussion · Thinking tools: compare, classify, relate · Use of ICT · Field experience, volunteering, experiments, research

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