Introduction to iB
The iB has been developed to provide support to teachers so that four main aims can be achieved. They are:
- To help children learn the subject knowledge, skills and understandings they need to become aware of the world around them.
- To help children develop the personal skills they need to take an active part in the world throughout their lives.
- To help children develop an international mindset alongside their awareness of their own nationality.
- To do each of these in ways which take into account up-to-date research into how children learn and how they can be encouraged to be life-long learners
The iB has simple but comprehensive structure
Everything is based on clearly defined learning goals which lay out the subject, personal and international knowledge, skills and understandings children need at different stages of their primary school life:
Learning Goal
A specific statement of what children should 'know', 'be able to do' or develop an 'understanding' of at different mileposts. The IPC contains learning goals for each subject of the curriculum, for personal development and for international mindedness.
Learning Target
An IPC learning target is a refined goal specifically related, where appropriate, to the content of each unit of work.
A Process of Learning
The units of wok provide practical activities which teachers can use in the classroom plus a wealth of other supportive information. Each unit is structured to make sure that children's learning experiences are as stimulating as possible.
Entry Point
The entry point is an activity for children that begins each unit of work and provides an exciting introduction to the work the is to follow. Entry points can last from one hour to a week, depending on the age of the children and the appropriateness of the activity.
Knowledge Harvest
The knowledge harvest takes place in the early stages of each unit and provides an opportunity for children to reveal what they already know about the themes they are studying. This bank of knowledge can then be added to, developed and even challenged by the teacher, throughout the course of the unit.
Explain The Theme
This activity involves the teacher helping the children to see the 'big idea' of the unit of work before embarking on the subject learning.
Big Picture
The big picture provides teachers with subject-based background information to the issues contained within the unit.
Research Activity
Each IPC unit has a research activity and a recording activity. Research activities always precede the recording activities. During research activities, children use a variety of methods and work in different group sizes to find out a range of information.
Recording Activity
During the recording activities, children interpret the learning they have researched and have the opportunity to explain it in ways which feature their multiple intelligences.
Exit Point
The exit point has two main purposes. First, to help children pull together their learning from the unit and second, to celebrate the learning that has taken place.
Learning Goal
A specific statement of what children should 'know', 'be able to do' or develop an 'understanding' of at different mileposts. The IPC contains learning goals for each subject of the curriculum, for personal development and for international mindedness.
Learning Target
An IPC learning target is a refined goal specifically related, where appropriate, to the content of each unit of work.
A Process of Learning
The units of wok provide practical activities which teachers can use in the classroom plus a wealth of other supportive information. Each unit is structured to make sure that children's learning experiences are as stimulating as possible.
Entry Point
The entry point is an activity for children that begins each unit of work and provides an exciting introduction to the work the is to follow. Entry points can last from one hour to a week, depending on the age of the children and the appropriateness of the activity.
Knowledge Harvest
The knowledge harvest takes place in the early stages of each unit and provides an opportunity for children to reveal what they already know about the themes they are studying. This bank of knowledge can then be added to, developed and even challenged by the teacher, throughout the course of the unit.
Explain The Theme
This activity involves the teacher helping the children to see the 'big idea' of the unit of work before embarking on the subject learning.
Big Picture
The big picture provides teachers with subject-based background information to the issues contained within the unit.
Research Activity
Each IPC unit has a research activity and a recording activity. Research activities always precede the recording activities. During research activities, children use a variety of methods and work in different group sizes to find out a range of information.
Recording Activity
During the recording activities, children interpret the learning they have researched and have the opportunity to explain it in ways which feature their multiple intelligences.
Exit Point
The exit point has two main purposes. First, to help children pull together their learning from the unit and second, to celebrate the learning that has taken place.
The Entry Point
Tasting
Seeing
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Smelling
Touching
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Hearing
- Does chocolate have a sound?
- When I eat popping chocolate can other people hear the popping in my mouth?
Knowledge Harvest
Question Time!
- What do they expect to see?
- What arrives at the factory?
- Where does it come from?
- What goes in and what come out?
- What is produced by the factory?
- How is it wrapped and packed?
Pair Work
Children draw a chocolate machine and a factory.
Children draw a chocolate machine and a factory.
Geography Learning Targets
My Family and My Culture
Captain Planet
Brainstorm : Think of a male of female superhero you know from cartoons, comic books or movies. What makes this character different from ordinary people? Write the hero's name in the center circle below. In the circles around the web, write down the special characteristics that makes the character a superhero.
Read Top 10 Superheroes in pair and underline their weapons and strength.
After Reading Activity: In pair write your own superheroes strength and weapon you would use in your IB book.
Read " If I Was a Superhero..."
Discuss in pair what would the character in the following text will do if he or she was a superhero.
After Reading Activity: What would you do if you were a superhero?
Write a short rhyming poems of ' if you were a superhero'
Write a short rhyming poems of ' if you were a superhero'