by Sean HOWES | Apr 23, 2020 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
This week we finally reached the conclusion of our literary text for DP Language Acquisition: ‘Things Fall Apart’ by China Achebe. The novel’s protagonist, Okonkwo, exemplifies the struggle of native cultures to persist in their traditions in the...
by Gary GOODWIN | Apr 23, 2020 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary ToK
This week grades 9 and 10 collaborated in online sessions to reinforce material that was covered through video lessons. In grade 9, we analyzed sources pertaining to the Berlin Wall crisis in 1961. In grade 11 TOK, students looked at the Areas of Knowledge (AOKs) to...
by John MWITA | Apr 22, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary Science, The Grades
This week we built on our previous discussion about the principal of superposition to explain how standing waves are produced on strings and pipes. In relation to waves on string (transverse waves) and vibration of air molecules to produce sound (longitudinal waves),...
by Michael CARBERRY | Apr 16, 2020 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), IGCSE, Primary P.E., Secondary P.E
Once upon a time a group of skiers and one snowboarder from ABIS went on a ski trip to Artesina in Italy. Well who could have thought that so much could happen in one week. Despite the virus threatening our return and a serious injury to Reed we managed 5 days of...
by Gary GOODWIN | Apr 9, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History
This week, a couple of classes tried out Google Jamboard to try to enhance our collaboration during this period of distance learning. Jamboard allows us to collaborate on a virtual whiteboard where we can draw, add stickers and post-it notes, and annotate maps and...
by Erin REHIL | Apr 7, 2020 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, IB DP Visual Arts, Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
The school closures caused by the coronavirus had an unprecedented impact on students around the world. Many DP art students were unable to hold their exhibitions and get feedback from friends, family, and other members of the community. Sadly, this was true at ABIS...
