Brain Awareness Week 2022!

It was Brain Awareness Week this week!  The LRC prepared several activities for the community which we would like to share with you.

This year we celebrated Brain Week with a variety of activities including riddles, physical and mental exercises, as well as a display of our collection of books related to the brain. 

Displays were also put up outside of the LRC which sported many brain teasers and challenges. On many occasions, we observed groups of students trying to work them out while on breaks. Student enthusiasm was so contagious that one of our students, Simón Jarma even created his own puzzle which was placed outside the LRC for other students to view and answer.

During the week an additional activity was also carried out in conjunction with the PE Department in which12th grade students participated in a Yoga class. They enjoyed the activity very much and in doing so became more aware of how Yoga helps the mind and body. 

The LRC team had the opportunity to interview students who were involved in this activity so that we could all learn more about their experience participating in Yoga during Brain Week. We have included the links to these interviews, the activities as well as our photo gallery below.

Thank you to Mrs. Cecilia Hernández and her team for their support, as well as the participation of everyone else involved.

As always, we cordially invite you to stay tuned to our social networks to stay abreast of the many activities we carry out each week.

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¡Esta semana fue la Semana de Concientización sobre el Cerebro! El LRC preparó

varias actividades para la comunidad educativa que nos gustaría compartir con ustedes.

Este año 2022 celebramos Brain Week con muchas actividades entre ellas: acertijos,

ejercicios físicos y mentales, nuestro display con la colección de libros

relacionados al cerebro, etc.

En muchas ocasiones, observamos grupos de estudiantes tratando de resolverlos durante sus brakes. El entusiasmo de los estudiantes de secundaria contagió de tal manera que el estudiante Simón Jarma, creó su propio acertijo que fue colocado a las afueras del LRC para que así cualquier estudiante lo pudiese responder.

Adicionalmente se realizó una actividad en conjunto con el Departamento de PE con

estudiantes de 12th que participaron en la clase de Yoga. Disfrutaron mucho

de la actividad y al hacerlo se volvieron más conscientes de cómo el Yoga ayuda

a la mente y al cuerpo.

El equipo de LRC tuvo la oportunidad de entrevistar a los estudiantes que participaron en esta actividad para que todos pudiéramos aprender más sobre su experiencia participando en Yoga durante la Semana del Cerebro. Hemos incluido los enlaces a estas entrevistas, las actividades y nuestra galería de fotos a continuación.

Agradecemos el apoyo recibido de parte de Mrs. Cecilia Hernández y su equipo

por su apoyo, así como la participación de todos los involucrados.

Como siempre, los invitamos cordialmente a estar atentos a nuestras redes sociales

para estar al tanto de las múltiples actividades que realizamos cada semana.

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Mini Maker STEAM Fest Challenges

 Prior to the Christmas Holidays, we launched our Mini Maker STEAM Fest Challenges. This activity marks the first step on the path to STEAM Fest 2022, which will take place later in the school year.

In the end, several students submitted their work for this activity.  We received quite a variety of projects, many of which were developed based on ideas taken from the Science Buddies website, while others were innovations the students designed and developed. themselves. 

At the ABC we very much value student choice,  agency and endeavour so it was fitting that we recognise and highlight the work of the students who not only engaged in various challenges over the past 2 months but also shared their final projects with us. 

On February 11th, each of these students were asked to visit the LRC, where they received a special, quite unexpected prize and a thank you from the organisers for taking part and for sharing their work. They can now choose whether to use their prizes to explore their favourite books or invest in further STEAM challenges at the Libreria Internacional.

Please do visit the STEAM Fest Mini Maker Challenge page for further details on this activity.

Building Empathy

 

Building Empathy

Our 6th-grade students are currently working on an MYP (Middle Years Programme)unit that focuses on three ATLs (Approaches to Learning), one of which is Practicing Collaboration Skills: Practice Empathy. 

The unit sets out to teach this ATL across a wide variety of experiences, one of which was a practical activity done these past two weeks. 

The Statement of Inquiry for the unit is The creative development of innovative products designed to function for an individual's needs, can help lessen inequalities. Through the inquiry process students will be researching designing, developing and testing their 3D solutions for mobility challenges. It can be difficult for students to understand these challenges if they have never experienced them so we set out to give them a few mobility challenges of their own.

This is what two students had to say about that experience.

"This activity made us see how people with disabilities struggle to do things that for us are not complicated but for them are very challenging. It also made us feel disappointed because sometimes we make jokes about those topics when it is a very serious issue. What we did see was how disabled people lived their normal lives. We did this through some “games” which helped us understand what people felt.

We felt very stressed and frustrated because we couldn't do simple things like write our name or even get a cup. We think that we did this activity because it was going to be fun and to reflect on how people with disabilities live their normal lives. This made us feel guilty because we sometimes complain about little things when people with disabilities wish to have legs, arms or other parts of the human body. We hope you reflect on these issues and think about how people live their lives missing a part of their bodies that make their life complicated. 

The question we have to ask you is what would you do if you were them? "

Thanks.

By Gabriel Cañenguez and Adriana Guzmán