Compliments Experiment

Hi Everyone,

I did a compliment experiment some time back and I’ve finished making the video! Please watch it and give me feedback:

Thank you!

Andrea

Homework: What does this mean

Read this quote and then make a comment to answer these questions:

• What does this quote mean to you?
• What “pebble” are you tossing into the world?
• How are you hoping to inspire people?

PYP Exhibition Checkpoint#4

This video shows the students and parents of 6SS working together in their latest PYP Exhibition Checkpoint. The image below shows what the students were using as a guide for the Checkpoint. The parents were asked to focus on the students’ plans, what actions they are working towards and what actions they have already put in place.

Homework: Tweet your Plans

Spend some time this evening thinking about what you have achieved so far this week, what you have done today and what you will need to do tomorrow. Then, log on to our Twitter account and write a Tweet to share the three main actions you will take tomorrow. Remember to put the hashtag on it – #nistexhibition

Homework: Gratefulness

Hi,

I doing my exhibition project on gratefulness. We have so much but we grumble and complain about the little things we don’t have. The goal of my project is to encourage 6SS to be more grateful. I would like you to think about what you are grateful for.

For homework today can you please take one or more photos of things you are grateful for. Then e-mail the photos to me ( Caitie ), put them put on Flickr or print them out. I’m going to make a collage of the photos.

Thanks, Caitie

Homework: What do you think of this strategy?

Watch this video and then make a comment to answer these questions:

• Why do you think someone organized this? What might they have been hoping to achieve?
• Why do you think people reacted the way they did?
• Do you think they really have to tell people to0 “say something nice”? Why?
• What effect would a strategy like this have at NIST?

Checkpoint#2

Homework – making progress

Tonight is really your only chance to prepare for tomorrow’s checkpoint. This has been a crazy week!

Tomorrow, I will be expecting you to do the following things:

• Explain which key concepts you think will help you become an expert on your spark and why
• Share the driving questions you have created so far and where you think you can get answers to those questions
• Share some of the most interesting information you have found using those questions
• Involve the adults that visit us tomorrow in conversations about your spark, the work you have been doing and progress you think you have been making
• Find ways to involve them in your learning by asking questions and seeking advice

Make a comment to tell us what you plan to do tonight to make sure you’re ready for tomorrow.

Homework – Asking conceptual questions

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You did some amazing thinking today. It was really important that we revised the Key Concepts so that you could use them to full effect during the Exhibition. By the time we did the third set of photographs your questions were much, much more conceptual, more powerful and more interesting – you really seemed like you wanted to know the answers.

Make a comment to share the following information with us:

• What were the most interesting questions you asked about the photographs?
• Which questions did you really want to find answers for?
• What questions have you created that will really help you become an expert on your spark?

Homework: Energy Menu

 

We are going to make a menu of strategies that you can use to create energy in your PYP Exhibition. Think of all of the strategies that Jamie Oliver used in the Food Revolution, think of strategies that you have seen other students or adults use, think of other strategies that are your own ideas.

Make a comment to tell us the strategies you know. Read each other’s comments so you don’t just end up repeating everything over and over again.