2011 Exhibition under way!

P6 students from the International School Moshi are very busy researching their different areas of interest.  This year's exhibition is called IMPACT THE WORLD.  There are three groups of students, each group has their own central idea, but each group member has their own lines of inquiry.  The exhibition unit falls under the theme How we express ourselves.  We started the exhibition process the beginning of December, meeting once a week for an hour.  Students completed many different activities to reinforce their understanding of the PYP, and by the time the 21st March arrived, they had their central idea, lines of inquiry and guiding questions developed from the key concepts.  Students kept Thought Journals over the December holiday, to help them discover what interests them most.  As we are looking into how we express ourselves, students were asked what they felt so strongly about, they wanted to shout it out to the world in whatever means possible.  The groups that formed were natural groups based on their area of interest.  We have Shawn, Sammy and Imran concerned about problems caused by a lack of education, and the connection between education and poor nutrition; then we have the group interested in children's rights - Isaac is concerned about child labour, Sanne about child soldiers, Alex how racism affects children and Nathalie is focusing on children's basic needs; then we have the animal group - Nandi is concerned about the effects of poaching, Ruqaiya about sea turtles, Mercedes is interested in whaling, Mwoleka is worried about cheetahs and Sara is worried about how tourism is impacting the dolphin population.
Our three central ideas are:
Humans' choices affect living animals.
Lack of education around the world affects the quality of people's lives.
Children around the world have a right to live a healthy childhood.
The students worked on and developed these central ideas themselves.