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Objective of the Learning Engagement: Learning Objectives:  Understand the motivations and feelings of a character from the text. .  Analyze the character of Ed Boone deeply.  Discuss the situations from another character’s perspective.  Understand the difference between a close-ended and an open-ended Question.  Form open-ended questions. Details of the Learning Engagement: Activity Description: Students were asked to write that one burning question that they would want to ask the character named Ed Boone from the novel ‘The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night Time’. Ed Boone is the protagonist’s father in the novel. While the students came up with their questions, they were also taught how to come up with a good open-ended question instead of a question that required a yes/no answer. After this, the students uploaded their questions on a padlet. Some Questions that the students came up with are shared here: Link to the document: https://drive.google.com...

MYP4 extended group had two student engagement activities recently.   Activity 1:   Treasure Hunt   Objective: To revise the concepts of simplification of surds.   Activity: the students were sitting in pairs, and they were given twenty cards with one question and one answer (not matching each other). They could start from any card number. Solve the question and find the card that had the answer and then solve the question on that card. They had to do this repeatedly till they exhaust all the questions and all the cards.   They were racing against each other and only correct answers would lead them to complete the treasure hunt.   Activity 2:   Objective: To revise laws of exponents   Activity: the students were given A4 size sheets with exponential number written on it. For example 2 10   The objective was to frame 3 questions using three different laws of exponents to arrive at this number.   On the back side of the sheet was a variabl...