Societies organise power, resources, beliefs, and development in ways that show ideas of fairness, responsibility, and governance.
HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVSE
Fairness & Development • Equity • Power • Governance
Age Group: MYP 1 (11–12 years)
Duration: 3 Days / 2 Nights
Venue: Hassan & Sakleshpur – Heritage Sites, Infrastructure, and Natural Environments
Learning Style: Inquiry-based • Observational • Experiential • Reflective • Collaborative
Includes: Pre-Tour Learning • On-Tour Experiences • Post-Tour Reflection and Action
This experiential programme helps students explore how societies organise themselves through belief systems, leadership, architecture, resource use, and development.
Through visits to religious centres, heritage temples, forts, dams, plantations, and natural spaces, students learn how communities in the past and present make decisions, manage resources, and share power. Learning is based on observation, discussion, and reflection, aligned with the IB transdisciplinary theme How We Organize Ourselves.
Students develop:
Thinking Skills
Observing systems, identifying fairness, understanding cause and effect
Communication Skills
Sharing ideas, explaining observations, reflective discussion
Social Skills
Working in groups, respecting others, following shared rules
Self-Management Skills
Responsibility, reflection, respectful behaviour
Students will:
• Explore how societies organise beliefs, leadership, and development
• Understand basic ideas of fairness and power
• Observe how resources are shared and managed
• Identify examples of fair and unfair practices
• Suggest simple ways communities can be more fair and responsible
Students will be able to:
• Explain how beliefs influence people’s behaviour
• Identify how buildings and structures show leadership and power
• Describe how natural and human-made resources are used
• Talk about fairness using examples from the tour
• Suggest simple and ethical actions for balanced development