Conceptual or factual

Conceptual understanding is

• the comprehension of concepts and ideas
• the repetition of learned material
• the ability to perform calculations
• key to IB education

Conceptual understanding makes opportunities for learners to

In the PYP, concept-based inquiry is a powerful vehicle for learning that promotes

• limited engagement and passive learning
• meaning and understanding, and challenges learners to engage with significant ideas.

• superficial knowledge and memorization
• narrow focus and rote repetition

• Concepts are fundamental, abstract ideas and play a critical role in organizing, designing and planning curriculum and learning.

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Conceptual understanding supports the IB mission because it enables learners to:

• conceive of multiple solutions to a problem

• imagine multiple perspectives on issues

• understand more deeply how ideas change in different contexts

• all are correct

It allows them to apply skills, knowledge, and understandings to new or different contexts in generative, autonomous, dynamic ways

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Concepts

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(b) facts

• Encourage analysis and application

• Encourage recall and comprehension

  
  

• Knowledge-based

• Information

• Concrete

• Enable exploration of complex issues

• Lead to deeper disciplinary and transdisciplinary understandings

• Frequently topical

  
  

• Open-ended

• Closed-ended

• Highlight opportunities to compare and contrast

• Skills-related

• Promote transfer to familiar or less familiar situations, issues, ideas and contexts

  
  

• Explore contradictions