In this article you will read how a PYP teacher in Colombia experienced her first PYP exhibition learning and guiding process.
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How to develop scientific skills in the early years students
Young children are often called natural scientists. How a visitor—a caterpillar—to an early years classroom changed the dynamics of thinking in students and became a major instrument in developing scientific thinking among them.
Encourage your students to plan the unit of inquiry
This article shows how to plan a unit of inquiry from the student perspective facilitating the same process that teachers undertake.
Making cycles of inquiry that fit your purpose
Even though inquiry cycles help us involve students and lead them toward understanding, they are often linear formulas that may still feel like an imposition to some students. Perhaps we, as teachers, can come up with our own version, to engage students with a more open and flexible process, one that better suits the learner’s […]
Promoting international-mindedness through learning communities
This article promotes students development of a deeper intercultural understanding through literature and technology.
The change makers
This article illustrates how fifth grade students approached the PYP exhibition under the transdisciplinary theme Sharing the planet and commenced a campaign called F.O.O.D. (Food Out Of Dustbin) to address a global hunger issue.