IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

IB Freshmen Work to Restore Wildlife Habitat in Urban Corridor

American Overseas School of Rome's links with Institute of Culture Brazil Italy Europe, Salvador, Brazil.

Belinda Fiochi describes the American Overseas School of Rome's service project Bridge to Bahia, which addresses four of the global issues of the sharing our humanity theme. It links AOSR with an innovative school, the Institute of Culture Brazil Italy Europe, in Salvador, Brazil.

IB North America conference, Chicago, July 2007

IB North America's 2007 conference included two keynote speeches relating to the community theme, from Stephen Lewis and Jean-François Rischard.

Watch a short video of a recent speech by Stephen Lewis below.

The explosion that shook the world. Responding to disasters through music - suggestions from Sim Sze-Ying

Sim Sze-Ying of Suzhou Singapore International School describes how she devised MYP music lessons around the topic "emergencies and disasters".

Includes unit description, introductory notes and videos.

Watch one video below, on students' compositions in response to the Chernobyl disaster.

Watch the other video (musical compositions responding to a fictional asteroid hitting the earth)  by following this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9UJmiXPEiI

Indus School links with the community

Description and student work relating to the Indus School's links with schools and an orphanage in the local community.

Projecto de Lengua A y Comunidad y Servicio - Maria Teresa Julianello

Maria Teresa Julianello of Red Cross Nordic United World College describes her school's work to support a school in Sierra Leone.

Eyüboğlu Schools, Turkey describe service activities relating to the community theme

Eyüboğlu Schools, Turkey describe the work of their Social Commitment Committee, and their work on global poverty.

A school in Norway learns from its support of a school in Sierra Leone - service and language learning - Maria Teresa Julianello

Maria Teresa Julianello of Red Cross Nordic United World College describes how support for a school in Sierra Leone combines language and service learning in several of the community theme issues.

Forest fires in Greece

Sibling schools and environmental awareness

This is a project that the IB of Doukas School has undertaken as part of the students’ CAS program. The project was designed by CAS Coordinators together with the students, in an attempt to respond to / take advantage of the community theme (Sharing our humanity) announced by the IB.