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.

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.
In this article you will read how a school changed their approach to facilitating student-led conferences to avoid students ‘freezing’.
This article describes opportunities for parents of the PYP students to gain first-hand knowledge about units of inquiry.
This article describes experiences from the first collaborative meeting based on listening, expressing, collaborating and implementing ideas.
This article is available in Chinese and English. It shares the practice of using two kinds of iPad Apps to support writing in Chinese for year one students.
This article provides year 2 and 5 examples of modeling, developing and assessing approaches to learning in both stand alone and integrated inquiries in a Mandarin classroom.
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