9th to 13th April, 2012
DISCOVERATORS
The entire week was filled up with a lot of excitement as we geared up for our formative assessment on the first line of inquiry. Our group members used a variety of media to present their research findings. While Mansha, Rhythm, Tia and Ashwin used charts,Aashna used MS- Power point. Vikram and Juyoung had an oral presentation of their work. Each of us assessed each other using the checklist created by us. Then we began the research on the 2nd and the 3rd lines of inquiry. We also roughly planned the layout of our panels and made a list of resources that we will need to display our research findings. Mansha, Tia and Aashna started making their paper mache globe on which they intend to show the migration around the world. Tia and Aashna also interviewed Tuli Didi, a support staff in Pathways to know more about economic migration. Vikram visited the senior school and got valuable information on the discovery of DNA by interacting with Ms. Mesha Das, the Biology teacher. It was indeed a very interesting and challenging week.
By Vikram, Juyoung and Ashwin
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| Vikram, Juyoung and Ashwin |
We conducted some interviews and we met some teachers for our research work. We got our panels and all of us have finished the base. We completed our formative assessment for the first line of inquiry. We are now heading to paste our information on our panels and start our script for the play.
By Ayush and Adarsh
TIME TRAVELLERS
5th April, 2012
Planning for a trip…
Today we planned to go for a field trip to a museum to further our knowledge on our topics of research. It took very little time to decide that we wanted to go to National Gallery of Modern Art and the National Delhi Museum. We then quickly drafted a letter seeking permission from Ms. Rima,to visit this places. We finally got a reply that we may go ahead with it not on 4th April 2012 but on 11th April 2012.
6th April, 2012
We completed our research and worked on our formative assessment and made the deadlines. We had to prepare for our forthcoming assessment. We tried to make our assessment as creative as possible by adding pictures, writing relevant information and preparing as innovative as we could. We had also started our research on the second line of inquiry...The day was all full of inquiry and inquiry...
9th April, 2012
Today we presented our formative assessment and got to know about each other's research which was very informative. At the end of each presentation we asked questions. Our mentor saw our presentations and guided us. We also started researching on our 2nd line of inquiry.
10th April, 2012
Today we finished presenting our formative assessment and started working on our 2nd line of inquiry. Also, today 2 students, Kritee and Gourav, went to see the Visual Art Exhibition in the Senior school. The paintings were beautiful and were expressing the painter's vision very innovatively. Some of the paintings that we liked were painted by Saachi, Prerna, Akanksha, Tanya who had painted each using a lot of hues and colours.
11th April, 2012
Today we went on a field trip to the National museum and National Gallery of Modern Art. It was a very nice and educative trip. We got a lot of information which will help us in our work.
By Kritee Mahato and Tanya Chaudhary
INDIVIDUAL MINDS
This week was filled with a lot of activities, stress and hard work. This week was dedicated to complete our formatives for our 2nd and 3rd line of inquiry. We, Ananya, Mitali and I, went for a field trip to the 'National Museum'. We went to different sections to research on our topic. There we were in our 'strand' group with our mentors (if our mentors weren't there, there were parents who volunteered). We gathered as much information as we could. That museum had a lot sculptures and pictures. Shreya went to the gallery of modern art.
Back in school we planned on the displays and also reconnected with our performance. Maam also made us visualise a display for our strand collectively. We did a CSI ( colour, symbol, illustration) on our big idea. Hoping it will work out well!!!!
By Parinta Bali
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| Parinita Bali |
UNIVERSAL EXPLORERS
This week (9th-13th April) our group (THE UNIVERSAL EXPLORERS) had an amazing week with fun filled activities and outings. We had started the week by continuing some research work for the first line of inquiry: FORM. We had planned a formative assessment for the first line of inquiry. We made a rubric to assess each other for our presentations. On Wednesday our group and a few other groups too went for a field trip to the NATIONAL MUSEUM. It was quite interesting because we saw sculptures, coins from different parts of India, pictures, weapons from which some of the soldiers fought from and maps of the places that some of the Indian explorers had explored. We had a really good time and we also got ICE CREAM! On Thursday we finally got our panels! All of us were really excited! But still had to continue our research. On Friday we presented our formative assessment to each other. We also assessed each other and gained more information from each other’s presentation.
AND THAT WAS HOW OUR WEEK ENDED!
By: Aashna Soni and Shreya Kathuria
HISTORICAL OLYMPIANS
This week we all completed our formative assessment about our first Line of inquiry. The boarders learned how to save their document on a pen drive, so that they could use the saved document on the pen drive to work during Evening Prep. We learned how to use the projector and how to ask questions to the person who is making the presentation. We also learnt that we have to be prepared with remote control, data cable, extension board much before the presentation starts to save time. We also learnt that we must always cite the source of information because I.B believes in Academic Honesty .
By Chahat
This week, Abhay, Samira
and myself went to interview Mr. Shukla, who is the head of visual arts
department. We asked him a few questions about Leonardo da Vinci. He told us
many things such as in the Renaissance period, artists had studios where people
who were interested in art could join and learn about art. The younger students
in the studios would also make paint, brushes and canvases out of organic
materials for the older students. He also told us that the people who copy
others style of work are called craftsmen and the real artists are the people
who make their own style. Mr. Shukla also advised us to see the IB Art Exhibition,
which had the artworks of Senior School Students. There were sculptures,
cartoon style paintings and abstract style paintings. We were able to identify
some techniques used by Leonardo in these artworks such as the light and dark
shading and perspective.
By: Shrey
Pasricha
On Wednesday, 11th
April 2012 we went to the Design and Technology Lab to create some models designed by Leonardo
Da Vinci. We chose an aerial screw, a bicycle and a parachute. Mr. James, who
is the head of the department guided us with our models and told us how to make
the things that we wanted to. We used our mathematical skills to find out the
dimensions for our models and drew the same on a hard cardboard. Mr. James told
us about the laser cutter, which is used to cut shapes. Since the laser cutter cannot cut wood or other
materials in cylindrical shapes, he guided me to use a metal rod instead. He
told us many ways for how we could make our models in a better and easier way.
By: Abhay Nautiyal
Guest speaker from Middle School – Ms. Kiran Rai -12th April 2012 on the topic- History of Delhi
Today 4 of us went to the middle school ‘s history teacher Ms. Kiran Rai. She gave us a lot of information on history of India and Delhi. She also told us about Ancient , Medieval and Modern History and cultures and difference from past to present.
Ms. Kiran told us that in early times Delhi was known as Indraphastha. She also told differences in clothes, food, dance, warfare etc. Ms. Kiran also told about Rajput kings, Mughals and about Qutub Minar and about Qutubuddin Aibak who started to build Qutub Minar and who finished building it. Ms. Kiran also talked about the British rule and more about the history of India and Delhi.
By Vamakshi Yadav & Khushbu Pohani
Guest lecture by Ms. Mesha Das on the Discovery of DNA
On 13th April, I interacted with Ms. Mesha Das who teaches Biology in the Senior School to know more about the discovery of DNA and other related information. She told me how DNA was discovered in the early 1950s, how it can be extracted and used for helping mankind. She also told me how discovery and extraction of DNA led to other related discoveries that changed the world.
By Vikram
DISCOVERATORS
Interview with Tuli Didi
For our topic on migrations we interviewed one of the support staff, Tuli Didi to know more her migration from Kolkata to Gurgaon. We asked her the questions on our questionnaire sheet and got some information. We found out why she migrated from Kolkata to Gurgaon, how she migrated to earn more money and the problems she faced after migrating like getting used to the new culture and language. She also told us she adapted to the new environment and learnt Hindi to communicate with the local populace.
By Aashna Bali and Tia Godfrey
Akshardham
On 11th April our group (Anant, Rishit, Aaryaman, Harsh & Shrawan) went for research work for our PYP Exhibition to Akshardham Temple and our Science and Technology Heritage Museum. Akshardam Temple is made as a tribute to Swaminarayan. Ten Gates reflect the Vedic sentiments of inviting goodness. We saw the Hall Of Values, a giant screen theatre and went for the underground boat ride. On the boat ride we were surprised to know that most important discoveries and inventions were done many many years ago. For eg. Aryabhatt (476) CE was the first to proclaim that the earth is round and is rotates on its axis, orbits the sun and is suspended in space. Acharya kanad (600BCE) discovered the power of "Vaisheshik Darshan" or the ATOMIC THEORY. He classified all the objects of creation into nine elements of earth, water, light, wind, time, space, mind and soul. As per his theory every object of creation is made of atoms. We really learnt a lot on this trip.
The National Museum
The same day, our group (Suhani, Khushi, Asher and
Sankalp) went for research work for our PYP Exhibition to
the National Museum in New Delhi. We all went for different kinds of information even though we all visited the same sections in the Museum. We saw and learnt a lot about the Harappan Civilization which showed us the Mohenjo-Daro, the big bath, and other aspects of their times.
We saw artifacts and collectibles including coins, clothes, and clay models that were made and discovered by people. We learnt a lot and got a lot of information for our research on discoveries of different places. It was a great opportunity to learn more.
By Suhani, Khushi and Shreshtha
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| Khushi, Shreshtha and Suhani |
National Gallery of Modern Arts
Today we went on a field trip to the National museum and National Gallery of Modern Art. It was a very nice and educative trip. We got much information which will help us a lot in our work. We were dropped off in different museums but we were on the same bus.
By Kritee and Tanya
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| Kritee and Tanya |
Visit to The Senior School Art Exhibition on 10th April 2012
Today Kritee and I went to see the Senior School Art Exhibition on 10th April 2012. Devendra Shukla Sir asked us to come and see that. We saw lots of paintings made by Senior School students , like Saachi Singh, Tanya, Prerna, Akansha etc. They used different techniques to make the paintings. Some paintings had dull and some had very bright colors. All the paintings were made on canvases. They all used different shapes and some of the students made their self portrait to describe themselves. We really got very valuable information and inspiration from viewing this Exhibition.
By: Gaurav Tanwar
VISIT TO NATIONAL CRAFTS MUSEUM
On the 11th
April, our group the Speedy Travellers visited the National Crafts Museum,
Delhi. We all gathered at Vatika city and as soon as Paras’ car stopped, we all
jumped inside and started off our journey. The National Crafts museum, situated
on Bhairon Marg near Pragati Maidan, is one of its kinds not only in India but
also in entire Asia-Pacific. It has got some of the best collections of
artworks in Asia. There is an interesting fact about its establishment. It was
originally established to act as a place where artisans from the entire country
would gather and learn how to preserve their traditional art in the era of globalization.
Nevertheless it actually became a place where artisans from all over the India
started exhibiting their art.
We were delighted to see the ambience of a
village. It is situated in the Village complex, which among others has various
forms of village habitat and housings on the display. It has a permanent
collection of over 20,000 items of folk and tribal arts, crafts and textiles
from various parts of the country. We saw lamps, chandeliers, lamp-stands,
drapes, clay and terracotta pots, folk and tribal paintings, embroidered bed
sheets and cushion covers, jewelries, cane and bamboo work of different states in
different galleries of the museum. They
all expressed the different cultures through terracotta sculpture, painting,
courtyards, huts, etc. We clicked many photographs outside as photography was
not allowed inside the gallery.
