As a member of the IB World Member School, the educational mission and goal of ASJ is to cultivate students to recognize the universal spirit of humanity, share the responsibility of guarding the earth, and to help create a better and more peaceful world.
Under PYP program courses, ASJ has integrated IB courses, domestic courses and Hong Kong courses, creating a diversified learning environment and meeting the learning needs of students of different nationalities.
"Sharing the Planet" is the second interdisciplinary unit theme explored by students of the ASJ PYP program this semester. Under this topic, we explore the rights and responsibilities when trying to share limited resources with others and other creatures; Groups/communities and their internal and inter relationships; Equal opportunities; Peace and conflict resolution.
At the beginning of December, students from G1 to G6 of the ASJ PYP program conducted online topic closing activities around "survival, species, natural resources, equal opportunities, public emergencies, peace and conflict".
G1 children revolved around the central idea of the unit: "The survival of living things depends on their ability to respond to changes."
Biological
characteristics and behavior
They distinguished the concepts of living things and non living things, and understood the categories and characteristics of living things.
They explored the "connection between creatures". There are relationships among creatures such as predation, parasitism, symbiosis, competition and cooperation.
Growth changes of organisms
By exploring the "growth and change of organisms", they have learned the truth that the fittest survive and nature chooses.
Through 6 weeks inquiry learning, children have improved their research ability and self-management ability. At the same time, through reflection, we realized that human beings, as a kind of creature on the earth, must protect animals, plants and other creatures, so that human beings can survive better. The COVID-19 epidemic is an example worthy of our human reflection.
G2 students centered on the idea of "species survival depends on environmental conditions", the survival of species depends on various habitats provided by Mother Earth, including oceans, lakes, deserts, marshes, grasslands, forests, and the poles. Habitat provides the necessary conditions for the survival of species. Once the habitat of species is damaged, it may lead to the rupture of the food chain or food web. To protect the diversity of species is also to protect our common homeland of mankind and biology.
In this online class, students made a more in-depth independent exploration of the theme of "species". They not only demonstrated their understanding of the learning process of the theme, but also appealed to people to love species and protect their homes with pieces of information they collected about the extinction of endangered species through manual production, poster promotion and other actions.
▲G2 Students' research on species extension
G3 students explored the central idea of "people's development and utilization of earth resources affect the sustainable development of society".
▲Learn about natural resources
Through exploration activities, they found that there are many kinds of natural resources. Children have carried out in-depth research on how people use natural resources. In addition, they also explored various renewable and non renewable energy sources today.
How do people use natural resources? Around this problem, G3 students carried out in-depth exploration.
In this concluding evaluation activity, each of them explored the natural resources they were interested in. Put forward some valuable inquiry questions. According to these questions, collect information and find answers.
▲Click the video to view the exploration of G3 students' demonstration and protection of resources
This activity not only explored more knowledge, but also improved their self-management skills, research skills and communication skills.
▲Family photo of G3 students and their parents
G4 students explored the theme of "equal opportunity". Driven by the concept of "function, connection and responsibility", they explored the relationship between social security, equal opportunity and people's life.
In the unit closing activity, they explored the aspects wthey were interested in. In the closing activity, teachers and parents saw students' efforts and intentions in learning, and saw their constantly improving inquiry learning ability.
G5 students took "public emergencies" as the theme of exploration, focusing on the central idea "public emergencies change social life and operation".
▲G5 Students present research results
In the closing activity, students selected a public emergency that they were most interested in as the topic, put forward a series of exploratory questions, and demonstrated their exploration process. The works of the online closing exhibition are the results of students' independent research.
Students formed their own understanding through independent inquiry.
▲Students form their own understanding of knowledge
G6 students explored various types of conflicts around "peace and conflict". It‘s not terrible to have conflicts, finding ways to solve conflicts is the key to our learning.
▲G6 Students learn knowledge around "peace and conflict"
When encountering parent-child conflict, we should learn to think in terms of empathy. Especially during online classes, when parents not only have to go to work, but also take care of us and assist us in our study, it is inevitable that they will be in a hurry. As children, we should be more considerate of our parents. After study, we should help the family to share some housework.
▲Students show how to understand "conflict"
In the online topic closing activity, the students collected many examples and personal deeds from ancient and modern life at home and abroad to show their understanding of the topic of conflict.
▲G6 students present research results online
This ASJ PYP online topic closing activity not only demonstrated students' love for UOI inquiry learning, but also demonstrated their constantly developing ATL learning skills.
We should learn all our lives and constantly look forward to better ourselves in the future.
