In this article you will read about fourth grade students choosing to contribute to the efforts of reducing the excessive use of single-use plastic, by giving advice to their families and reusing plastic caps to manufacture objects to cover some classroom needs.
This article explores how a unit of inquiry on literature, as a result of effective planning and collaboration with the library, sowed the seeds for the students to ideate an action as a result of their understanding of the unit.
This article is based on an example of listening to learning within a pre-kindergarten classroom and how teachers tuning into student voices helped to shape the direction of our inquiry into the transdisciplinary theme of ‘how we express ourselves’.
This article illustrates how to use social media to include approaches to learning skills in a Primary Years Programme classroom.
Travel buddies promote international-mindedness as they roam the globe and send back photos and information about their travels. These stuffed animals provided by second grade students, tagged and sent on their way are connecting an IB World School to the world.
This article is about exploring the concept of perspective and how it is vital to understand and respect different perspectives which is core to the IB values.
Can students connect physical education (PE) to a unit of inquiry and can lower elementary students be in charge of their own PE?
This article is about how a PYP school in Peru reworked a unit of inquiry to put the arts in the driving seat. First grade students wrote and performed their own plays connected with effective communication and the IB learner profile. This year-long project led by their drama department was supported by other disciplines and […]
This article shows how to involve the single-subject teachers into the collaboration process of the programme of inquiry.
This article shows fifth graders reflecting on learning experiences during their first unit of inquiry of the school year, How we express ourselves.
A school created a video on imagination through art and music related to the transdisciplinary theme How we express ourselves.
The author of this article shows how a central idea was rewritten to become more transdisciplinary in nature.
Vandana Parashar, a PYP educator at Pathways School, Noida, India talks about exploring different forms of technology as part of the transdisciplinary theme How we express ourselves.
