This article exhibits how students from lower elementary develop creative and critical thinking skills using art to discuss the issue of water pollution. In connection to art, students were familiarized with the concept of aesthetics and the relation between the used artistic media and theme of water pollution.
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Learners taking big steps for entrepreneurship
In this article it is delineated how the Primary Years Programme (PYP) philosophy of engaging learning activities, effective assessment and meaningful actions represents an ideal framework to assist students developing their sense of entrepreneurship, one of the key competences for lifelong learning.
Living our mission statement through play
This article highlights how the primary students highlight and realize their school’s mission statement through play.
To science or not to science – that is the question!
In this article you will read how a PYP school approaches science or, better to say, why the school does not have science class in lower school.
Using literacy to drive inquiry
This article highlights a PYP school’s journey towards fostering language and literacy inquiry as an essential tool for achieving the objectives of the programme of inquiry and ultimately, learner success.
Transferring an idea into action
This article follows up on how grade 2 students incorporated action into the ‘How we organize ourselves’ unit of inquiry by illustrating students taking action and making connection across subjects.
How to initiate action in a PYP classroom
In this article you will read how grade 2 students incorporated action into the How we organize ourselves unit of inquiry.
Let’s face technology in an increasingly digital world
This article illustrates how technology transforms teaching and learning and how digital tools become commonplace in many classrooms.
Grade 2 unit on Weather
A school has created a video to illustrate how the school collaborated to develop the Grade 2 unit of inquiry on Weather.