SUIS 户外教学 | 解码明治工厂效率，探寻动物园生态密码

本次巧克力工厂参观活动，是课程设计的实践教学环节，旨在将经济学理论知识与现实生产过程进行系统性衔接。

A1阶段学生重点观察了factors of production（land, labor, capital, entrepreneur）在食品制造业中的具体配置形式，并通过流水线作业直观理解了labor specialisation 对efficiency的提升机制。

A2阶段学生则从technical efficiency与allocative efficiency双重视角，分析了该工厂在资源利用、生产流程优化及质量控制等方面体现的运营效率。生产线上的节拍控制、库存管理和能源消耗数据，为“efficiency”这一核心概念提供了可量化的现实参照。

此次活动验证了实践教学的有效性——当抽象经济模型与具体生产情境结合，学生能够更深刻地理解市场环境中决策优化的实际逻辑，完成从理论认知到应用分析的能力转化。

我校IGCSE 生物选修，中文选修IG2学生赴上海动物园完成“都市方舟：探秘上海动物园中的生存、适应与人类足迹”实地考察。

四组同学按“驿站轮转”制，在6小时内完成鸟类分类、兽类种群估算、两栖爬行纲归类及水质观察四项任务，现场记录表、照片已带回整理。

初步观察显示，天鹅湖留鸟种类稳定，斑马群数量与往年相近，两爬馆扬子鳄状态良好，园区水域偶见微塑料。活动产出将用于后续生物课案例讨论及中文课相关课题作文素材。

This visit to the chocolate factory was a practical teaching component of the curriculum, designed to systematically connect economic theory with real-world production processes.

Students at the A1 level focused on observing how the factors of production (land, labor, capital, and entrepreneur) are specifically allocated within the food manufacturing industry. Through hands-on experience with the assembly line, they gained a clear understanding of how labor specialization enhances efficiency. Meanwhile, A2 level students analyzed the factory’s production efficiency from the dual perspectives of technical efficiency and allocative efficiency, examining resource utilization, production process optimization, and quality control. Data on production line pacing, inventory management, and energy consumption provided tangible, measurable references for the core concept of “efficiency.”

This activity confirmed the effectiveness of experiential learning—by linking abstract economic models with concrete production scenarios, students developed a deeper understanding of the practical logic behind decision-making optimization in market environments, successfully transforming theoretical knowledge into applied analytical skills.

Our school’s IGCSE Biology elective students and Chinese elective IG2 students visited Shanghai Zoo to carry out the fieldwork activity titled "Urban Ark: Exploring Survival, Adaptation, and Human Footprints at Shanghai Zoo." Working in four groups under a "station rotation" system, the students completed four tasks within six hours: bird classification, mammal population estimation, amphibian and reptile categorization, and water quality observation. Field records and photographs were brought back for further organization. 

Preliminary observations indicated stable resident bird species at Swan Lake, a zebra population size similar to previous years, healthy conditions of the Chinese alligators in the amphibian and reptile pavilion, and occasional microplastics spotted in the zoo’s water bodies. The outcomes of this activity will serve as case study materials for subsequent Biology lessons and as essay topics for Chinese classes.