by Gary GOODWIN | Jan 14, 2021 | Creativity, Action, Service, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
CAS project is at least one month long, collaborative project which gives students a chance to follow all of the CAS stages. This includes investigation, preparation, action, demonstration and reflection. Historically, ABIS students have aimed to complete these...
by Gary GOODWIN | Jan 7, 2021 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Secondary History
This week, grade 12 students have begun revising for exams by looking at the paper 1 topic of The Move to Global War. We are revisiting the case study of Japanese Expansion in the first half of the 20th century. Grade 11 students are also looking at this topic for the...
by Gary GOODWIN | Dec 10, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary ToK
This week, students started exploring mathematics as an area of knowledge. We looked at questions such as “Is mathematics a language?” And “What is the importance of mathematics to other areas of knowledge?” One of our activities this week was creating our own number...
by Gary GOODWIN | Dec 3, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary ToK
Grade 11 students have been engaged in creating a mini TOK exhibit to practice for one of the final TOK assessments. Students are required to choose 1 of 35 prompts and then an object that focuses on knowledge and religion that addresses the prompt. A write up is...
by Gary GOODWIN | Nov 25, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary History
Grade 11 students have started a new section on the Chinese Civil War as part of their paper 2 studies. We have been able to link the material effectively to our paper 3 sections on 19th and 20th century East Asia. Below is some of our work in jamboard focusing on...