SDGs – The MYP Classroom

ATL skills, Coetail - Course 5, Global Collaboration, Individuals & Societies, Student Agency, Technology Integration

Coetail Final Project

May 3, 2019June 30, 2019by Lina Farrow2 Comments

I can't believe that my Coetail journey is coming to an end, but I am excited to finish in such a high note introducing my final project with this post. The most important aim that I had for my final project, revamping my Creative Minds unit, was for students to have voice, choice and ownership [...]

Coetail - Course 5, Global Collaboration, Individuals & Societies, Student Agency, Technology Integration, Unit Planning

Creative Minds – A unit built on global connections and student agency

March 9, 2019June 30, 2019by Lina Farrow6 Comments

At the end of last year, when I choose to revamp my Creative Minds G6 English-Humanities unit (read more about it here), I was excited at the prospect of making the unit more grounded and relatable to my students. At the same time, I wanted my students to choose their own paths of inquiry according to [...]

Coetail - Course 3, Individuals & Societies, Learning Activities, Technology Integration

Engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals through Data Visualization

October 8, 2018June 30, 2019by Lina Farrow4 Comments

Infographics are one of the various data visualizaiton tools that I frequently use in my classes. I love infographics because they help my students understand and easily remember information (read my post here where I talk about the picture superiority effect). It is also relatively easy to find an infographic with the information you [...]