by Melodee PETERS | Sep 11, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
Our Grade 8 Integrated Humanities students have been studying tectonic plates and how their movements cause earthquakes. The students enjoyed demonstrating the different tectonic plate movements through their body movement. When they demonstrated, the other students...
by Melodee PETERS | Jun 18, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
This week the students were encouraged to use their creative thinking skills and knowledge to design a cover for their first unit in Integrated Humanities. Grade 7s designed a cover based on their understanding of natural hazards. Grade 8s designed a cover based on...
by Melodee PETERS | Apr 30, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
For the last lesson of the week, the students in Grade 8 were intrigued to learn that they would be doing a demonstration/experiment in the Science lab for Humanities. They were engaged in demonstrating growth or decline of a country’s population. As in a...
by Melodee PETERS | Apr 10, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary English, The Grades
Both grade 7 and grade 9 students have been practising their transfer skills this week. Grade 7s used their research skills from Humanities to research the history of Australia with regard to colonialism, Aboriginal culture, the Stolen Generation as connected to the...
by Melodee PETERS | Mar 13, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, The Grades
The grade 7 students have been practicing reading texts and answering IB questions based on their understanding of the sources. Students got to share their answers with each other in the Quiz-Quiz-Trade activity. Afterwards, they worked collaboratively to answer a...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 28, 2024 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, The Grades
Grade 7 students were tasked to create their own quiz questions and answers based on a reading text about the geography of Mesopotamia. In class, this week, they were introduced to the Kagan Cooperative Learning structure called Quiz-Quiz-Trade. This activity is...
