Statement of Inquiry: Human control over living systems creates both stability and vulnerability within ecosystems.
Age Group: MYP 1 (11–12 years)
Duration: Full-Day Interdisciplinary Field Investigation
Venue: Enchanting Acres
Disciplines Integrated: Sciences • Individuals & Societies • Design
Includes: Pre Tour, On Tour and Post Tour Phases
“Interdependence Under Control” reframes Enchanting Acres as a managed ecosystem laboratory. Students investigate how human-designed systems regulate natural processes, evaluate sustainability trade-offs, analyse resource flows, and critique the ethics of control over living organisms.
The field experience is structured around inquiry, data collection, systems modelling, and evaluative reflection aligned to MYP assessment criteria.
Students do not simply participate.
They investigate, analyse, and critique.
Sciences:
Criterion A – Knowing and understanding ecological concepts
Criterion B – Inquiring and designing investigations
Criterion C – Processing and evaluating field data
Criterion D – Reflecting on impacts of science
Individuals & Societies:
Investigating resource use and human-environment interaction
Design:
Analysing systems and proposing sustainable improvements
Students will:
• Analyse the farm as a human-managed ecosystem
• Identify inputs, outputs, and feedback loops
• Evaluate sustainability and ethical implications
• Collect and interpret primary field data
• Develop systems maps with annotated relationships
• Propose realistic sustainability interventions
Students will:
• Produce a labelled systems model of the farm
• Identify at least three ecological dependencies
• Analyse one sustainability risk supported by evidence
• Evaluate a human decision impacting ecological balance
• Propose one justified design improvement
• Reflect on power, control, and environmental responsibility
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