by Andres BRADSHAW | Feb 17, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
This week the grade 9s, 10s, 11s and 12s have been using scientific ‘language’ to gather and communicate information. The grades have been using renewable and non-renewable energy sources, latent heat, ideal gases and nuclear equations, all topics using the language...
by Andrew COOPER | Feb 9, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Primary P.E., Secondary P.E
Students in MYP are learning how to reflect on their performance and highlight areas that they want to develop. They are then setting goals and planning activities to achieve their goals. In small groups, they will now teach their plans to each other and reflect on...
by Margot SIMONDS | Feb 3, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Library
This week Mr. Bradshaw and his grade 9 students came to the library for a refresher workshop on using Noodletools for their research projects. Noodletools is a research management platform that ABIS has a subscription to. It is a flexible system that students...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Feb 2, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
We have been studying an interdisciplinary unit, with Individuals and Societies, called Voices Form History. The theme is genocide and persecution and we are looking at literary responses to it. To do this, we have investigated poems written about the Holocaust,...
by Nicholas MURGA | Jan 19, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
Grade 9 I&S students have recently begun an interdisciplinary unit with English Language & Literature called Voices from History. This unit of inquiry will explore a range of case studies related to historical examples of genocide and ethnic cleansing. We...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Jan 12, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
Students have been completing the Bias and Propaganda unit. They finished reading ‘Animal Farm’ and compared the book to the films made in 1956 and 1999. Students have just completed the final summative piece in which they analyzed the types and usage of propaganda...
