IB World - tweets and comments from the IB community
By IB Blogosphere • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: FeaturesWe had a great response to our request for examples of environmental initiatives that IB schools are involved in. View the thread on your school and green issues to see some of the comments.
Sean Löfgren tweeted
@iborganization I’m an IB student from Antwerp (AIS) and I help the environment by biking an hour a day to get to and from school. Cheers
Good work Sean! This is a great example of how every individual can make a difference.
Gavin Judd takes this one step further
@iborganization At Edron Academy in Mexico City, We have a whole school obligatory transport system. This has reduced traffic dramatically.
Sounds impressive, and there may well be more on this in the next issue of IB World, look out for it!
As far as the current issue goes, some great feedback from frobro Joe in Korea
Read some of the 9/09 IB World magazine this weekend. Some good stuff. Glad a PD emphasis from IB is coming soon. @iborganization
Glad you liked it Joe, a lot of work goes into every issue and the IB World editor reads this blog…so he’ll be very happy to see your comment!
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We received a great email from Alexandra Gordon & Beverley Williams at Southbank International school!
Hi there,
Our grade 5 classes at Southbank International School in London (UK) have just completed a unit of inquiry under the transdisciplinary theme ‘Sharing the Planet’. The central idea of our unit was ‘The ways we use energy resources can affect our environment’. For their summative assessment, students had to come up with a realistic action to save energy that could be implemented in their homes. While installing solar panels and wind turbines were not entirely ‘realistic’ in most cases, other changes, such as setting up indoor compost bins, changing to energy saving lightbulbs, and walking to school, were.
We integrated our language writing focus which was writing to persuade. Students wrote a persuasive piece and gathered the resources necessary to implement the change. They then presented their arguments to their parents. Please have a look at our Grade 5 blog to see parent comments about the impact of the students’ arguments and the resulting action. We were very impressed with their efforts!
Here is the link to our blog:
http://www.southbank.net/blogs/subjects/hampstead_grade_5/
Please have a look at the entry titled: ‘How Persuasive are our Students?’ Parent comments can be found below the post.
Thanks very much!
Alexandra Gordon & Beverley Williams
Grade 5 Teachers