WEEK 3 March 12th - March 16th

We are now HALF WAY through Exhibition having completed 3 weeks and 3 weeks left to go.

Here are the reports for Week 3 of the Exhibition:

Field Trips!-Jasmine!

Students of Grade 5 have been going on field trips these last couple of weeks. Many of the students have been going to organizations such as Unicef, PPAWS and Friends. Some of the students have emailed people who are specialists in their area of interest.

The students have been asking lots of deep questions that will be great for their Exhibition and should help them learn more about their issue. I went to an Hospital in Cambodia which specialised in eye surgery and I collected a lot of data to interpret. Lots of the students are collecting a lot of data which they need for their Exhibition.

Mentors By Jade

Every week we have two mentor meetings, one during Exhibition time and one at lunch time. At that time we talk to our mentor, about what's been going on, and what we need help with in our groups.

A mentor is a person that you look up to or follow (as a person and what they do to change the world).Googles definition of a Mentor is “an experienced and trusted adviser.”  or “advise or train (someone, especially a younger colleague).”.

Every week we have a mentor time checklist to check with our mentor to talk about some things we need to do with them like show our checklist, events, field trips and more..

Positive Stuff and Hard Stuff in PYP Exhibition

Jae Yong

In Exhibition we have done stuff that was easy and fun but sometimes we went through some hard situations; and one of them is when your team argues and doesn’t get through anything for the whole day. After that happens you have a lot to catch up on like your journals and sometimes even your finished perfectly crystal clear issue. We have been through happy times like when you are so up to date that you have nothing to do and you have a happy free time in the Exhibition when all the other people are working hard to catch up from the week before. My group The Technolution have been struggling because one of our group members issue doesn’t exactly fit with the rest of the groups issues. Well we have been through some happy times where we were getting on with our work and having breaks when we need to rest our brains.

DATA COLLECTING

By JESDA

FOR DATA COLLECTING, WE HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE SPECIFIC THING TO WORK ON. I CHOSE PERCENTAGE OF … IN SANCTUARIES, E.G: 2% OF SANCTUARIES KILL THEIR ANIMALS, 8% ABUSE, 90% PROTECT THE ANIMALS.

AFTER YOU COLLECT YOUR DATA, YOU HAVE TO ANALYZE THAT SPECIFIC THING YOUR DOING.  FOR DATA, YOU CAN HAVE AS MUCH INFORMATION YOU CAN GET, BUT IT HAS TO BE RELATED TO YOUR DATA COLLECTING. AFTER FINISHING, YOU HAVE TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT CAN ATTRACT PEOPLE’S ATTENTION, BUT NOT TO BORE ANYONE OUT. BUT IT’S BEST TO BE ABLE TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE CAN INTERACT WITH.

Process Journals

By Zoe

In Exhibition we have Process Journals. A Process Journal is a book where we keep everything we did through Exhibition.

We are now in Week Four. We have filled our Process Journals with LOTS of information, and what we have been doing for the past weeks.

First, we had Week One, with our Essential Agreements in our groups, our Central Ideas, our Key Concepts and our Lines of Inquiry.

In Week Two, we started to research about our chosen topics and writing our discoveries in our Process Journals. We also started planning Field Trips and Interviews, putting what we learnt in the Books.

In Week Three, we started collecting Data. Everything we researched went into our Journals. We also asked out surveys to help us with our Data, and we put the surveys into our Process Journals as well.

We only started Week Four, but in Ms. Lou’s class, we started sorting out what we have in our Process Journals into 5 categories;

• Key Concept 1
• Key Concept 2
• Key Concept 3
• Data
• General Information

That is pretty much what is in our Journals.