INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE (IB) TOURS

INTERNATIONAL BACCALUAREATE SUBJECT ACTIVITIES

Our itineraries allow your group to take in iconic sights, combined with as many classes, workshops, themed guided tours and curriculum-linked, experiential learning activities as you wish. We ensure that academic and practical endeavours are age and experience appropriate. Our knowledge of the International Baccalaureate curriculum, along with any other curriculum you may teach, along with our consultative process, ensures that we understand the learning outcomes required. In the case of the IB, we also consider the IB Learner Profile and the CAS components as well as the different approach taken in teaching this curriculum to ensure that we develop challenging activities that assist your students to enquire further and to use their natural curiosity to question what is being taught.

Example experiential learning activities (please also refer to each individual subject in the subject list under Educational Tours for more examples.  Please see Service Learning Tours for CAS):

Language acquisition

• Visit local markets or spend time at a local school to improve your students’ conversation skills
• Take a cooking, dancing or other class in the language you are studying
• Take five mornings of language classes followed by five afternoons of excursions in the chosen language
• Understand the culture and the people of the country by learning how locals live.  Perhaps see a local play, attend an event or festival or even just spend some time in a city or town living as the locals do
• Learn the history of the country through workshops, sightseeing with an historian guide or reading in the language you are studying

Language and literature

• Walk in the footsteps of poets and authors such as the Bloomsbury Set or explore Romanticism, Realism, Transcendentalism and the Fireside Poets
• Follow the characters you are studying and understand them better by visiting the places and locations in the book
• Understand the author by visiting the most significant places that impacted their lives
• Not only read the book, play or poetry, but take a Q & A session with an expert on the author
• Undertake a workshop at a society that understands the author and the text.  There are many societies that exist around the more well known authors or poets

Individuals and Societies

• Travel through the countries of historic revolutions to absorb the causal tensions, politics and politics and events that led to these episodes in history
• Undertake Geography fieldwork relevant to your studies in the country of your choice.  We’ll design the fieldwork around relevant sites and the curriculum
• Learn about the causes of the Global Financial Crisis through workshops and speaking with Economics experts
• Visit and understand the role of the United Nations in your quest to learn about Global Politics
• Take a workshop on one of the great early philosophers such as Aristotle or Socrates.
• Visit a laboratory testing human behaviours or one undertaking studies on the human brain through MRIs and other technology
• Take a tour to a country very different to ours and conduct studies on their culture and way of life.  We’ll develop a project to be completed during and after the tour focussing on the comparisons between the culture of the visited country and your country
• Take a tour to any country that has freedom of religion at its core, so that you can study the range of religions that exist here.  Through workshops, visits, Q & A sessions, tours and more, students are exposed to a range of religions in situ and, therefore, gain knowledge of how these religions are observed by their followers
• On tour a range of businesses can be observed and studied through meeting with management, Q & A sessions and more.  Students will have the opportunity for exposure to a range of approaches to business management – both formal and informal.  Take a workshop in business management theory and compare this to observations made in a real business setting
• Take a workshop focussed on the application of new technology in a global context.  How do a range of technologies assist us to communicate worldwide?  Why do some technologies go viral and others don’t succeed?

The Sciences

• Visit CERN and confront the great questions of contemporary physics currently being explored there
• Take a Q & A with an expert in their field to understand the careers that are possible in STEM related fields
• Learn about a potential career as a chemist as you observe chemists working on the development of new radiopharmaceuticals and the analysis of the chemical and physical compositions of materials. You will have the chance to have a Q & A session with them afterwards
• Delve into the science of mutation and genetic diseases in this hands-on workshop
• Learn about the ecology and history of this nationally significant bay by participating in hands-on discovery stations on board an educational vessel. The stations include plankton, marine life, watersheds and ocean acidification
• Learn about new technology and interactive design trends affecting the design industry

Mathematics

• Based on the world-renowned Elements of Mathematics curriculum, this is the envy of university-level mathematics courses everywhere. Designed for the most talented secondary school students, Logic for Mathematics is an unparalleled course in pure mathematics
• Take one of several Knot Theory workshops
• Develop strategies to master Tic Tac Toe while students encounter the surprises delivered by geometry and topology

The Arts

• We develop custom designed film related workshops, which can cover acting for film, editing, screenwriting, production and more
• Take a special puppetry workshop as a way to better understand this form of theatre
• Take any genre of dance classes including Hip Hop, Jazz, Musical Theatre and maybe even learn the Fosse Technique
• Performance tours can be combined with workshops and other experiential learning activities
• Experience something very special with this world famous choir or take a workshop with their director
• Take a sketching workshop in front of a major artwork in this famous art museum or perhaps a mixed media class designed around your school’s particular desired learning outcomes