Youth Club Bowling Night
Youth Club at QAIS is always a ball, but last Friday, it was a really, really heavy ball.
DP Film: Continuity Editing
Last week my students in the IB Diploma Programme Film class were looking at continuity editing.
Hundred Museum – Student-Centered Math
Students in Grade 1 at Qingdao Amerasia International School have been exploring what 100 is – what it looks like, and how it is made. They recently read a book, From One to One Hundred, that showed groups of objects corresponding to numbers between one and one hundred. To deepen their understanding, students created a […]
PYP Grade 1 Visits Qingdao Observatory
Last week, our first graders drew real-time sunspots and observed the power of concentrated sunlight in a visit to China’s oldest modern observatory! The Qingdao Observatory was first built under the German administration in 1898, and in 1924 became the first modern observatory to be managed by Chinese nationals. The 16cm-aperture German-made telescope has been […]
PYP Exhibition: A journey of a thousand miles…
…begins with a single step! The Primary Years Programme Exhibition has started in Grades 4/5/6. In some ways, this unit of inquiry is like others in the PYP: It falls within a transdisciplinary theme; students work toward enduring understanding of a central idea. But while every other unit of inquiry is developed by their teachers, […]
Grade 3 Inventors
In the Primary Years Programme unit on How the World Works, Grade 3 tackled the central idea was that “People apply their understanding of forces and energy to invent and create.” During one classroom activity, the students set out to experience the thrill of invention for themselves! Equipped with string, straws, and knowledge of Newton’s […]
Learner Profile
The Learner Profile is one of the first things you see when you read about the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme. It follows quickly after the IB Mission Statement, and for good reason: this is the embodiment of the qualities which must be actively promoted in students in every IB school. They equate these qualities […]
Welcome to the machine age!
Our modern world works only because of machines. In our latest MYP unit, students are exploring the six types of simple machine to understand how they change the direction and magnitude of forces, and how simple machines are then built up into more come, compound machines. Using simple machines to generate inquiry and explore their […]
