Drafting the Central Idea

There was a lot of anticipation as children were curious to discuss about their central ideas. They
were given a worksheet and were asked to write and highlight the descriptors in the TD theme. Then
they reflected on a mind map about the key words related to food wastage.

 Now each team member’s central idea was discussed in the group and each individual zeroed in
on one central idea that they have framed and went on to rephrase and work on it using the
checklist provided.

Next, these derived central ideas were further narrowed down to correlate all the key concepts.

Finally each came up with a central idea and penned it on a chart. Now, they further refined it
collaboratively and framed their final central idea and lines of inquiry as a team.

They added the fair copy of the derived central idea to their journal. They also finalized on the transdisciplinary integration in Math, English and other sub strands too. this entire process of finalising the central idea, took us about a week which was well worth it, as now children have a clear vision about what their inquiry is gonna be !

The sample will be discussed in detail tomorrow.bye!