by Ferdi ATESIN | Sep 21, 2023 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary Maths
Flexibility and Conceptual Thinking Are Required When Working with Numbers We seek to discern patterns in the cosmos and comprehend its rhythms. But when children enter school and are exposed to a dry set of procedures they believe they just have to accept and...
by Nicholas MURGA | Sep 14, 2023 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
Grade 11 students should now be engaged in meaningful CAS experiences related to one or more of our strands: creativity, activity, and service. They have been thoroughly introduced to the aims and expectations of CAS and should understand how to submit proposals...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 14, 2023 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12
As a vocabulary building exercise, I have instituted a “word of the day” competition in the DP classes. Each class, we start off with a word (usually drawn from SAT vocabulary lists), which the students then need to define and provide an example for. They...
by Sahar Mohammad IBRAHIM | Sep 6, 2023 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
G9 students analyzed a novel from world literature entitled (Oliver Twist), linking its events to a global issue, which is poverty and ill-treatment of shelter children. Each student began after sharing the reading, identifying the most important points, and forming...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 6, 2023 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
We are already finishing up our first unit in DP year 1 English and Literature. We have been studying film reviews, returning to our first unit from grade 10, but this time as critical readers rather than creators. From next week, we will be starting our first novel....
by Duncan MAKORI | Sep 6, 2023 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary Science
The grade 11 chemistry students have finished their orientation to DP Chemistry. As part of the Pre-IB Chemistry requirements at ABIS, the students sat for a baseline test. they have also been involved in a series of laboratory investigations that have equipped them...
