2. How we come to Understand:
• What: The important critical ideas, issues and
problems that all disciplines investigate
• Why we are concerned with these ideas, issues
and problems
• How we investigate them through different
disciplines
• How we represent knowledge in different
disciplines
• How art fits in. What’s the same; what’s the
difference
4. Purpose: Why we want to
understand
To understand nature, culture,
ourselves, and the ways we
experience and encounter the world
5. Knowledge: What we want to
understand
• Natural sciences: Nature: its forms, forces,
functions, patterns,
• Social sciences: Culture: how humans organize
and interact, what they do and create, how
they see themselves.
• Mathematics: Numbers, formulas, patterns,
relationships, shapes
• Language Arts: How we communicate through
language, grammar, words, syntax, spelling
6. Knowledgealso includes important
human concepts such as:
• Humans’ relationship to nature
• Creativity, imagination and Innovation
• Life and Death
• Change and stability
• Memory
• Love
• Identity
• Spirituality
7. Methods: How we come to
understand?
Natural Sciences: Research (investigate and
interpret), map, diagram, categorize, quantify
Social Sciences: Research (Investigate and
Interpret), map, diagram, categorize, quantify
Mathematics: Research, quantify, map,
Language Arts: Research, interpret, verbalize
8. Forms:How we represent knowledge and
understandings
• Natural Sciences: Scientific
illustrations, diagrams, tables,
textual descriptions, displays of specimens
• Social Sciences: Diagrams, tables, textual
descriptions, displays of artifacts
• Mathematics: Numbers,
geometric shapes, formulas,
• Language Arts: Fiction,
• non-fiction, poetry, plays
