Big Idea

Societies organise power, resources, belief systems, and development through governance structures that determine fairness, accountability, and sustainability.


Transdisciplinary Theme

HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVES
Fairness & Development • Equity • Power • Governance • Responsibility


PROGRAM SNAPSHOT

Age Group: MYP 5 (15–16 years)
Duration: 3 Days / 2 Nights
Venue: Hassan & Sakleshpur – Heritage Sites, Infrastructure Systems, and Biodiversity Landscapes
Learning Style: Inquiry-driven • Critical • Experiential • Reflective • Collaborative
Includes: Pre-Tour Framing • On-Tour Critical Inquiry • Post-Tour Synthesis and Action


PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This programme enables students to critically examine how societies organise themselves through systems of governance, belief, resource management, and development. Students analyse how authority is created, how resources are controlled and distributed, and how ideas of fairness and progress are debated over time.

Field-based inquiry across religious centres, heritage temples, forts, dams, plantations, and ecosystems supports evidence-based reasoning, ethical judgement, and comparative systems analysis.


ATL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Thinking Skills
Systems analysis, evaluation, synthesis, ethical reasoning

Communication Skills
Academic discussion, analytical writing, evidence-based justification

Social Skills
Collaborative inquiry, respectful debate, shared leadership

Self-Management Skills
Independent reflection, responsibility, sustained focus


LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Students will:
• Analyse how governance and belief systems shape social organisation
• Evaluate how power and resources are distributed and justified
• Investigate development models and their social and environmental impacts
• Assess fairness, accountability, and sustainability within systems
• Propose ethical approaches to future development


EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will:
• Explain how belief systems influence laws, norms, and behaviour
• Interpret how architecture and infrastructure communicate authority
• Analyse how resources are managed, contested, and conserved
• Use evidence to critique development choices
• Propose informed, ethical solutions to real-world challenges

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