In the IB curriculum, the Areas of Interaction are the lenses through which a lesson is viewed. What are we emphasizing? What is our point of view?

Approaches to Learning

Approaches to Learning

Quick Description: Approaches to Learning is central to the IB program, as it is concerned with developing the intellectual discipline, attitudes, strategies, and skills which will result in critical, coherent, and independent thought and the capacity for problem solving and decision making.

• Media Center Research
• Millennium Guide Student Agendas
• The Language Lab
  

Quick Description:

Environment aims to make students aware of their interdependence with the environment so that they accept their responsibility for maintaining an environment fit for the future. Students are confronted with global environmental issues which require balanced understanding in the context of sustainable development.

• Endangered Species Team Rescue Activities
• Recycling

Quick Description: Community Service starts in the classroom and extends beyond it, requiring student to participate in the communities in which they live. The emphasis is on developing community awareness and concern, a sense of responsibility, and the skills and attitudes needed to make an effective contribution to society.

• Farm Share Project
• Community Service Field Trip to Camilla's House
• Red Cross Blood Drive

Quick Description: Health and Social Education prepares students for a physically and mentally healthy life, aware of potential hazards and able to make informed choices. It develops in students a sense of responsibility for their own well-being and for the physical and social environment. This area encourages students to explore their own selves as they develop healthy relationships with others.

Quick Description: Human Ingenuity allows students to focus on the evolution, processes and products of human creativity. It considers their impact on society and on the mind. Students learn to appreciate and to put into practice the human capacity to influence, transform, enjoy and improve the quality of life. This area of interaction encourages students to explore the relationships between science, aesthetics, technology, and ethics.

• Science students make mouse trap cars and bridges
• Students study inventors