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International Day of Peace at the Royal High School, Bath, UK

International Day of Peace at the Royal High School, Bath, UK.

International Day of Peace at the Royal High School, Bath, UK

International Day of Peace at the Royal High School, Bath, UK.Pupils and staff at the Royal High School, Bath joined 100 million others around the globe to mark the International Day of Peace.

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Independent Lens

Airing weekly on PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service in the USA), Independent Lens introduces new documentaries and dramas made by independent film makers.

A statistical exercise for Year 12 mathematicians to support the Peace and conflict theme

A workbook of personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan

One sheet on Iraq, one on Afghanistan and a third providing some support material  for teachers

Use a small list of data to find the mean and standard deviation using the two formulae for the variance

Using the larger data lists, calculate these stats using calculators and/or excel 

Construct a frequency table of the Iraq data and calculate the stats and compare with the list stats

Does summarising the data into a frequency table introduce significant changes?

Submitted by Site moderator on Fri, 18/09/2009 - 8:10am.

International Day of Peace - Monday 21 September

Monday 21 September is the International Day of Peace.

We hope that many IB schools will be marking this day - or making peace and conflict a focus on another day soon.

Please post reports of actions that you have been taking in schools. We shall be reporting on some of these in the next issue of IB World.

Please use the discussion forums to continue and open up your discussion on the important topics of peace and conflict.

 

 

 

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LOOKING FOR A Grade 5 CLASS TO WORK WITH US - on bullying

LOOKING FOR A CLASS TO WORK WITH US!!!Hi, I am Marcia, dual teacher at Gimnasio del Norte, Bogotá Colombia.  OUr 5th graders are startinog their own Exhibition and they would like to work about BULLYING. To start their work, we would like to contact a class in a school outside Colombia to share with us a global class the 21st, September (Peace Day).

Submitted by Site moderator on Thu, 13/08/2009 - 1:46pm.

Global lessons and activities 2009 for the International Day of Peace - 21 September

Lessons and materials relating to peace and conflict have now been posted in English.

Click on the link on the home page, or on the right hand side of every page. 

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PYP unit planners relating to peace and conflict

Attached is a sample planner under the transdisciplinary theme Sharing the planet developed and trialled in a PYP school with the central idea “Finding peaceful solutions to conflict leads to a better quality of human life”.  This planner is included in the document Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry (2008).

Global lessons and activities 2009: Peace and conflict

Global lessons and activities and the International Day of Peace, 21 September

The topic for our IB global lessons in 2009 is peace and conflict. We invite IB World Schools to join in taking part in these lessons – specially written or selected - and in other activities relating to peace and conflict.

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