Friday, 11 September 2015

Making a model of Teepee


 Hands on activity to make Teepee a temporary house under the current unit of inquiry " Where we are in place & time". Students were able to know the material used to make it & enjoyed a lot during this activity.





Going Further through survey


As IB believes in learning through real life situations. In the current unit " Where we are in place & time" Students were having different perspective regarding tree house. Whether it is a temporary or a permanent house. To find out this students conducted a survey in the school among the students & teachers to clarify the concept.



Sorting out temporary & permanent house


 In this activity students were supposed to cut & paste the pictures of different kinds of houses & sort it on the basis of temporary & permanent houses by applying their thinking skills. After sorting they were supposed to paste the pictures in appropriate place & explain why they have pasted through which communications skills were develop.







Saturday, 5 September 2015

Finding Out


 To find & collect the data related to different animals invloved in the food chain, they visited the school library & researched about it. Students written all the information & data in their respective note books & sort it on the basis of herbivore, carnivore & omnivore.




Life Cycle on number line


 As IB belives in transdisciplinary approach, students tie in the number line with life cycle. They understood how to represent the life cycle on number line.


Field Visit- Poly House


  IB belives in involving the community  in the learning process. To enhance the learners  knowledge related to unit of inquiry, they visited a poly house where they acquired new facts about living things.






Experiment for photosynthesis


 To develop students research skills, they done an experiment to understand the concept, what will happen if leaves don't get the sunlight  for 3- 4 days. To understand this they covered  some part of the a leave with black chat paper. They observed after 4 days that the part of the leave which was covered with the paper turned brown in colour as the leave don't get sunlight which was necessary for performing photosynthesis.. 





Adjectives


 In this activity students describe themselves on the basis of kind, size, colour & number & write the words related to it. They comprehended the criteria on the basis of which we can describe any person or a thing.




Human life cycle


 As IB believes in learning through real life situation. To understand the human life cycle, students were pasted their own  photographs to show the growth from infancy to childhood.