MYP Design
In design, students thrive to create successful solutions addressing the problem.
MYP 1 student Aanya Saincher has designed and developed a poster on Organ donation for unit 1. The inspiration was taken from their science class where they were learning about various organs and their functionalities. Through various research, she discovered the benefits of organ transplants and how it helps save lives. She wanted to encourage people to donate organs. To convince people about the importance of the organ, persuade them to sign up for organ donation and to educate people thus exhibiting prominence she created a poster with the tagline “Give someone a second chance in life”.
MYP 2 student Dheer Kanungo has built a product for water purification. The product is made using easily available and accessible materials in small areas where they are not able to afford a purifier and may not have a clean drinking water supply always. The sketch has minute details of the product and depicts how the real product will look like. The encouragement for this came when he caught sight of the article which gave a glimpse of the issue being faced by people in small areas.
MYP 2 student Shaurya Gala has developed an app which aggregates various organizations/NGOs addressing various environmental causes. The app is one platform which helps people obtain information category-wise and choose to contribute to a cause too. The motivation for this development was the service-linked unit in design where he deeply connected with the idea you are never too small to make a difference.
Math Made Fun!
A Friday had scarcely begun that a Math class began in a not-so-usual way. The students of MYP 1, fresh from learning how to adjust recipes from serving one to more, were about to put their calculations to the test. Recipes carefully thought of and selected were prepared and plated for friends and school housekeeping staff.
Does learning Math merit a trip into the kitchen? With so many adults expressing anxieties and fears about their early experiences with the subject, it’s fair to say that making it interesting is one way to prevent those fears from taking root. Numbers need not only be nightmarish squiggles on a page; we have to be able to see them all around us. Food is one of the most fundamental arenas in which they appear. So, the next time you have a need to reflect on the system of whole and natural numbers and think deeply about fractions, consider doing it with slices of tomatoes, cubes of cheese and squares of chocolate.
And that is why Ms Jigna marched MYP 1 into the cafeteria. Each student could only use six ingredients to put together a snack for four—themselves, two friends and the members of the EIS housekeeping staff—integrating Math, cooking and Service in a single morning’s activity. The intrepid chefs were also responsible for plating and presenting their food and so the feast was for the eyes, too.