IB global lessons and all associated materials on global poverty are now posted in English, French and Spanish.
Lessons are available for IB Diploma Theory of Knowledge and Middle Years Programme humanities.
The Middle Years Programme is also available in Chinese. Click on Global lessons on the homepage in English, and look under The lessons.
Materials in English for the global lessons on poverty are now available on this site. Click on "Global lessons" above the picture on the home page.
Materials in French and Spanish, and the Middle Years Programme in Chinese will be posted shortly.
Updated introductory Powerpoint presentations on the IB community theme are posted as attachments on the "About the IB Community Theme" page.
The longer version has been used in recent conference presentations, and we encourage you to use it - or the shorter version - in schools. Show a presentation at a staff meeting or with students or parents.
Presentations will be updated from time to time.
Versions in Spanish and French to follow.
At our school in the south Sweden, there is a student organisation called
Make Poverty History
About 60 students work, parallel to their studies, fighting Poverty. Malmö Borgarskola is ONE school, and here is what we have accomplished since 2005 - when the organisation was founded:
It is very encouraging that a number of schools are linking, or have linked, their PYP exhibition with the community theme.
Now we have this website, IB would like to encourage schools linking their PYP exhibition to the community theme to use it to share their exhibition work with others.
The password you were sent when you signed up as a user is intended simply to access the site initially. You can then change it to something memorable for you.
If you go to your profile, and to the Edit page, you can change your password to whatever you like.
Boyd Roberts
We have just set up a facility for people to contact one another by email via the website.
If you wish to make it possible for people to contact you to respond to a post, please go to your profile page, and click on Edit.
Scroll down, and there is a box you can tick which enables people to contact you.
Although people can then contact you via this website, they are not provided with your email address.
Boyd Roberts
Another devastating disaster in Asia has followed the cyclone in Myanmar.
Up to date news reports on the earthquake and the rescue efforts can be found in many websites, including:
Links to a few websites with news of the disaster in Myanmar have been posted.
See other websites too for ways in which we can help in such emergencies.
Search "disasters" or click on the tag "disasters & emergencies"
