Making the PYP Happen
Lincoln Elementary IB PYP World School
April 2015-2016
Lincoln Mission Statement
The Lincoln Elementary School community will enhance, enrich, and broaden the education of every student through local and global awareness. We will work together to develop high achieving life-long learners who welcome others and their differences .
Contact Information
Email: sskeels@adrian.k12.mi.us
Website: www.theadrianmaples.com
Location: 158 South Scott Street, Adrian, MI, United States
Phone: 517-265-8544
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Twitter: @APSMaplePride
International Baccalaureate Mission Statement
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right." www.ibo.org
Students used matchbox cars to discover force and motion.
Students kept track of their learning of force and motion.
Bowling showed how force controls how many pins you knock down!
In the World of our Kindergartners!
During the Kindergarten force and motion unit called How the World Works, the students spent time collaborating and inquiring about the way objects move. During the unit they filled out a KLEW chart(K: What do you know; L: what did you learn; E: what's the evidence; and W: What do you wonder) to keep track of their understandings of force and motion. New vocabulary was also taught, such as push, pull and gravity. Students investigated how gravity acts on a ball by dropping three different types balls off the stage in the gym and seeing how high each ball would bounce. Kindergarten students then recorded their data and determined whether or not their findings were valid. Force and motion concepts were also incorporated into their reading and writing. Poems were written about motion they saw on the playground and they read articles about push and pull. Students were inquirers when they were given a piece of cardboard and a toy car and were told to move the car. Each group had a different way of getting their car to move. Some children pushed it with the cardboard, others made ramps. Students then wrote a sentence about how their car moved and drew a picture. To close up the unit, the class discussed wind as a force. Students made kites and flew them outside. They wrote about their experience and drew a picture. The students also visited the bowling alley and studied how the ball's force determined how many pins it would knock down.