UOI结题 | 创造力萌芽 探索“我们如何表达自己”

This unit, How We Express Ourselves, the Grade 1 students embarked on an enlightening journey into the world of global festivities, exploring the colorful traditions of Brazil's Carnival, South Africa's Heritage Day, and India's Holi. These cultural deep dives are an integral part of our curriculum designed to broaden perspectives and foster an environment of respect and inclusivity.

The festivities kicked off with Brazil's Carnival, a vibrant celebration known for its extravagant parades and rhythmic music. The students made their own feathered headdresses and danced to samba music. explored South Africa's Heritage Day, which honors the rich diversity and cultures of South Africa. They engaged in making traditional beadwork and examined South African culinary traditions, appreciating how heritage is expressed through art and cuisine. The exploration concluded with Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, celebrating the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring. The students enjoyed a playful session of throwing non-toxic, washable colors, while discussing the historical and cultural significance of the festival.

Throughout these explorations, students reflected on how these celebrations compare to their own cultural practices. Through discussions and activities, they not only learned about the reasons people celebrate but also discovered the universal values of joy, bravery, and community in these diverse cultures.

As Affiliated School of Hong Kong and Macao students, continues to nurture young global citizens, these experiences are invaluable in building a foundation of understanding and mutual respect from a young age.

G2 students explore how society utilizes different signs and symbols to communicate effectively. The students tuned into signs and symbols in their daily lives, found out the meaning of signs and symbols, sorted out difference types of signs and symbols, such as, road sings , warning symbols, math symbols,emoji, and so on. 

Students took action as they created signs and symbols to help the ASJ community be more aware and safe. On the day of UOI exhibition, students showcased the signs created in order to instruct visitors. Grade 2 did an outstanding job of presenting their work with the ability to clearly explain the inquiry process to the learner community.

Under the central idea "Clothing expresses the uniqueness of people",the students wanted to do a fashion show with catwalk, music and poses from the start.

For this fashion show, the students in Grade Three made or chose clothes that represented their uniqueness. With the help of UOI teachers, they explored the various types of clothing and why people choose them; Under the guidance of art teachers, they learn to design clothing patterns; Under the guidance of the music teacher, they learn to appreciate and choose songs to match the T-stage show; Under the guidance of their dance teacher, they practice the catwalk every day.

This showcase let students discover that clothing isn't just practical or beautiful, but also that it has ideas behind it. These ideas can be shown to truly express the individual. From that, students gathered a strong appreciation and open-minded understanding of how choices really make us who we are.

In this unit, our G4 students try to understand what advertising is. After they know about the types of advertising,the persuasive influence of advertising techniques and the effects of advertising,they attempted to create their own Ad showcasing the characteristics of the G4 class ! 

Under the guidance of their English teacher, they finalised their slogan: “G4A where Funny+Naughty+Smart=Success” They got their cool design ideas from their math and homeroom teacher, learned the science of using colours for persuasive effect under collaborative effort of their art and UOI teacher and the final product directed by the Chinese teacher!  

On the showcase, they also introduced ethical advertising and consumerism to the guests.

Grade 5 was exploring how we use modern ways to communicate and express ourselves  with the main focus on communication platforms. Students explored Instant Messaging Apps, Social Media, Business Apps, Email and Conference Apps. Students decided to focus on social media and explore the different social media platforms around the world and in China. They also touched on the importance of rights and responsibilities we have when using social media platforms. 

On the day of UOI exhibition, they showcased their inquiry process and   presented their findings to one another. Students can now identify different communication platforms, understand how to correctly use them as well as the rights and responsibilities that come with using these platforms.

在 “我们如何表达自己 ”的单元探究中，一年级学生开启了一次富有启发性的全球节日之旅。他们探索了巴西狂欢节、南非遗产日和印度胡里节等丰富多彩的传统节日。对世界文化多样性的深度探索是我们课程不可或缺的一部分，旨在开阔孩子们的国际视野，营造尊重和包容的学习氛围，培养孩子成为具有国际情怀的人。

我们的探究之旅以巴西的狂欢节拉开了序幕，这个充满活力的庆祝活动以奢华的游行和节奏感极强的音乐而闻名。学生们制作了自己的羽毛头饰，在桑巴音乐中翩翩起舞。他们参与了传统珠饰的制作，并考察了南非的烹饪传统，领略了遗产是如何通过艺术和美食表现出来的。探索活动以印度胡里 结束，庆祝正义战胜邪恶和春天的到来。学生们一边享受着色彩带来的乐趣，一边讨论着这个节日的历史和文化意义。

在探究过程中，学生们思考了这些庆祝活动与他们自己的文化习俗有何不同。通过讨论和实践活动，他们不仅了解了人们庆祝节日的原因，还发现了多样文化中有关快乐、勇敢和社区等概念的普世价值观。

我们学校将继续培养年轻的世界公民，这些经历对于从小建立理解和相互尊重的基础非常宝贵。 

二年级的同学们探索社会如何利用不同的符号和符号进行有效的沟通。他们关注日常生活中的标志与符号，找出标志和符号的含义，整理出不同类型的标志与符号，如路标、警示符号、数学符号符号、表情符号等等。

采取行动阶段，学生们创造了标志与符号，以帮助ASJ社区看起来更加醒目和安全。UOI结题展当天，同学们出示了为嘉宾观看和指引制作的标志牌。同学们表现得非常出色，能够向学习者社区清楚地介绍自己的探究学习过程。

在“服装表达人的独特性”的中心思想下，学生们从一开始就想到最终做一场有T台、音乐和造型的时尚秀。

为了这场时装秀，三年级的学生们制作或选择了代表他们独特性的服饰。在UOI老师的帮助下，他们探索了不同类型的服饰以及人们选择这些服饰的原因;在美术老师的指导下，他们学习设计服饰图案;在音乐老师的指导下，他们学会欣赏和选择与T台演出相匹配的歌曲;在舞蹈老师的指导下，他们每天练习走秀。

这个展示让同学们发现，服装不仅实用或美观，而且还有它背后的含义。这些含义真实地表达了自我。由此，同学们进一步学会“选择塑造自我”这一概念性理解。

在这个单元中，我们G4的学生尝试了解什么是广告。在他们知道了广告的类型、广告技巧的说服力以及广告的效果之后，他们开始尝试创作自己的广告，展示G4班的特色！

在英语老师的指导下，他们最终确定了他们的口号:“在G4A班，有趣+顽皮+聪明=成功”。他们从数学和班主任老师那里得到了很酷的设计想法，在美术和UOI老师的共同努力下，他们学会了如何科学使用颜色来达到说服效果，最终的产品由语文老师指导！

在展示会上，他们还向来宾介绍了公益广告和消费者权益保护。 

五年级的同学们探索我们如何使用现代方式进行交流和表达，主要关注交流平台。学生们探索了即时通讯应用程序、社交媒体、商业应用程序、电子邮件和会议应用程序。学生们决定把重点放在社交媒体上，探索世界各地不同的社交媒体平台。此外，他们还谈到了我们在使用社交媒体平台时的权利和责任的重要性。

UOI结题展当天，他们展示了他们的探究过程，并互相介绍了他们的发现。学生们现在可以识别不同的交流平台，了解如何正确使用这些平台，以及使用这些平台时的权利和责任。