by Jonathan ADAMS | Apr 15, 2019 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
Sara (Grade 11) has made time to pursue a personal area of interest: fashion photography. Her exhibition is upstairs in LC3, across from the science lab. Having started with nearly no photography experience, she committed a few hours a week to learning the basics of...
by Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Apr 11, 2019 | Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Science
All finished now with grade 12 students: they are focusing on revision for exams in both Biology and Chemistry. Grade 11 Chemistry students were learning experimental methods to measure rates of reaction and the Biology students were finishing the section on...
by Jonathan ADAMS | Apr 11, 2019 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary Maths, The Grades
Four students from Grade 11 will represent ABIS in the 2019 International Mathematical Modeling Challenge, a contest that posts a single real world problem for students to solve by creating a mathematical model of the situation. Last week, Emma, Akram, Taif and Eunhye...
by Jonathan ADAMS | Apr 8, 2019 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary Maths, The Grades
Our Math HL students discovered again what many have enjoyed about mathematics for ages… sometimes insight only comes after great struggle, but the satisfaction of understanding something truly difficult approaches shear joy. Once you get a taste of victory over...
by Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Mar 28, 2019 | Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Science
This week the lab activities have focused mainly around waves, since was the fresh topic we started with the grade 7 students. We produced a wave machine, froze a series of waves using a stroboscopic light of equivalent frequency, talked about the different types of...
by Todd DAVIS | Mar 27, 2019 | Community and Service, Creativity, Action, Service, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 6, Grade 9, IGCSE, The Grades
As part of the ABIS Community Council outreach program, thirteen students and two chaperones visited Al Suwaihrah Basic Education School in Sohar this week. The 4th graders from this school were thrilled to spend some quality time with ABIS students doing activities...
