El tema para la comunidad del IB: "Nuestra humanidad: una realidad compartida"

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.

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.

Women's empowerment - teaching resources from Community Classroom

Resources from Community Classroom, a program of the Independent Television Service.

Four documentaries explore stories of women's empowerment and leadership around the world. Meet an indigenous Bolivian leader fighting for labor rights; a young Israeli Arab karate champion with feminist ideas; three Egyptian women working for fair elections and a Kenyan leader sparking a nationwide environmental movement.

Contribute to the "green issue" of IB World magazine

IB World magazine wants your thoughts on the environment for its green issue – what your school is doing to help the cause, how you can teach students the importance of going green, and what role IB World Schools have to play in promoting sustainability. We’re looking for opinion articles, or simply news from your school – please email editor@ibo.org by October 9 to discuss how you can get involved.

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?

Time for school - education in 7 countries

Time for schoolis a US PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) TV series which follows students in schools in 7 countries - Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya and Romania - over a period of years.

 It delves into the schooling available to them, and some of the social, economic, family issues related to education.  The goal of the documentary series is to highlight the Millennium Development Goals for primary education for all.