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Unit 2, CodeQuest – Educational Video Game Design, connected to Service in the MYP. In this unit, students identified real-world problems related to a chosen target audience and designed educational games to either address these issues or raise awareness.

The projects focused on five key areas:

Well-being

Environment

Subject Learning

Tourism & Cultural Awareness

Safety

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The MCF project, born from a CAS initiative, goes beyond teaching English for an improvisation competition. Catering to non-Beijing Hukou children unable to attend regular schools, it conducts engaging English sessions at BCIS on weekends. BCIS students organize fundraisers, facilitating free health check-ups. The project significantly impacts education and healthcare, creating avenues for a brighter future.

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The student-led extracurricular activity, HOPE, collaborates with the NGO HOPE and the autism school Auesome Place. Its mission is to educate, raise awareness, and serve individuals with special needs. Monthly campus events feature engaging activities for autistic children, promoting understanding and inclusion. The initiative goes beyond education, aiming to integrate these children into mainstream society. Events include art, physical activities, and games, with members organizing under guidance. Weekend volunteering camps at HOPE's stud-farm provide hands-on experiences in equine therapy and assisting kids' therapy sessions, further enhancing the initiative's impact.

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Hope EA - Awesome School and Hope NGO - OneDrive

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PAWS, a student-driven non-profit, partners with MeiLe Dog Shelter to assist urban stray dogs. Last year, students funded the shelter through sales, fundraisers, and direct volunteering. Now, they expand impact with a cloud adoption app, fostering monthly contributions for chosen dogs. The project promotes stray animal education through digital and physical booklets, accessible online and on campus. Additionally, a live digital map streamlines pet owners' city travels. To tackle public health concerns, students collaborate with health organizations to provide repellents and vaccines for 50 urban stray dogs.

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The Happy School charity is run in an apartment building in Tongzhou, they run in a volunteer basis and have regular weekly classes with volunteers from schools, businesses, and family individuals. The school is therefore used to receiving volunteers and managing the contact with visitors. The children are all patients of leukemia at various stages of receiving medical treatment in Beijing, but are not “sickly”. Some are indeed very active and cheeky!

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The project aims to use a different approach towards upcycling (recycling) by collecting plastic caps, shredding them, melting them, then let it cool in a mold to create new products out of the used plastic.

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Biodiversity Garden is the rooftop garden located on the swimming pool rooftop, and it aims to attract pollinators, insects, and birds, thus enhancing biodiversity by encompassing flowers, vegetables, and other Beijing native species as well as bird feeders, bird boxes, and insect hotels. The rooftop garden is also a learning space established for students, and the garden gives them wonderful places experience and be immersed in the nature around them.

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In collaboration with organizations such as the Holt China Program, Little Dew Drops, and various non-governmental organizations, Help a Child Smile, a student initiative, endeavors to make a positive impact on the lives of vulnerable children. Within this initiative, students are actively engaged in fundraising and donation efforts to support the cause. Their commitment extends beyond financial contributions, as they consistently visit children in orphanages and NGOs, aiming to provide both financial and social service support.

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The UNLOCK Community, an organization that was founded in 2018 and has been continuously distributing help, love, and care to people with autism in the past few years. In the BCIS Community, students organize charity sales that have been providing products that are created, drawn, grown, and made by the kids in the autism communities. In this case, students are able to spread awareness while raising money for the donation.

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The Circular Garden Club aims to explore nature's circular properties and apply them in activities in the BCIS SS 3rd floor garden in ways which make positive impact on the BCIS community. In cooperation with the circularity projects (which is also deeply integrated in the circular garden,) we have made noticeable impacts on our school's community by promoting sustainability, reusing and reducing waste consumption, reducing carbon impacts, and using innovative biotechnologies to improve the environment around us.

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Student Leaders: Miffy/Tin Tin G12

Our project can help empower and guide the school community towards building more environmentally friendly and responsible habits through an effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle paper. By reducing and reusing paper, we are lessening the amount of paper waste generated by the school, with the benefits of decreasing the demand for paper, thus helping decrease the rate of production and deforestation in China. These all can have a positive environmental effect since these actions help decrease the amount of greenhouse gas, preserve the trees which absorb carbon dioxide, lower water consumption and contamination, and more.

In addition, we are reusing the paper waste in ways that can benefit the lives of the community such as compost which can be used to grow organic foods and plants by all of us, homemade paper that can be a sustainable way to have fun and be creative with kids, scent packs that can be put in cars or wardrobes to enhance the environment, and more.

Shredding machine at Mr Jerry's - Art room to dissolve paper, then write on it after drying. Sell by making bookmarks at the eco market.

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Eco Market Mission Statement BCIS Eco-market is a school community event focused on supporting the environment we live in. It is guided by the BCIS mission to act for the good of all and the sustainable development of the world and will feature locally sourced and created produce, green initiatives, and businesses that have a strong focus on environmental sustainability.

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Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

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What action will you take today? For each of the 17 Goals there are many positive actions you can take to make a real change.

SCHOOL

Discover the World's Largest Lesson and wide-ranging activities and materials. All designed to motivate young people and inspire them to become informed and active citizens.

BUSINESS

Whether you're a business or employee, at the start of your sustainability journey or developing your next set of commitments, we've got useful resources to support your contribution to the Global Goals.

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How to achieve Sustainable Development Goals - The Global Goals

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What action will you take today? For each of the 17 Goals there are many positive actions you can take to make a real change.

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Practical possibilities to student action

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In the pursuit of never-ending growth and profits, the corporate-led global economy is putting all life on earth at risk. When we take action to localize our economies and strengthen our communities, we are helping to bring about a systemic shift in direction - towards cultural and biological diversity, social justice, genuine democracy, and our own health and happiness.
It's time to bring our economies back home, to return to a human scale, to localize.

Learn more

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Join the global movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Explore tools and resources for 146 localization actions.

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PACK of Actions

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Teacher Facilitator - Jenelle Kirchoff

Student Leader - George G11

Days and Dates:

Events:

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The Memory Cafe project, aimed at providing support to elderly individuals with Alzheimer's at Golden Height Nursing Home, focuses on tailored therapy and activities to slow down memory loss. Overcoming the challenge of building familiarity and trust, dedicated students conduct weekly visits, engaging in one-on-one conversations with each elder. Through these interactions, students document symptoms and habits, ensuring a personalized approach to care. This proactive engagement seeks to establish lasting connections and contribute to the well-being of the residents.

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Contributed By Andrew Morrissey

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Dive into the Beautiful Trouble toolbox, an interconnected web of ideas and creative best practices that puts the power of organizing for social change in your hands. Start anywhere and explore...

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Contributed by Andrew Morrissey

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When a student understands, synthesizes and articulates a brilliant way of framing service learning and community engagement, we all better pay attention.

And this is exactly what has transpired at the International School of Kigali (ISK) in Rwanda. Grade 9 student Aya D. has created a framework called the "4 Pillars of Mindful Service" and she hopes it will guide students and teachers alike at ISK and beyond.

Aya enrolled in the ISK Service Learning Club this year because she wanted to be part of something meaningful. Sara Gregson and Nathan Haines, teachers and service learning leaders at ISK, have founded the club on principles of critical service learning. They want to support students in thinking about service and community engagement in deep, open-minded, reciprocal and inclusive ways.

As a result, as Aya learned about how to think about service learning, she made connections to mindfulness. The idea of four pillars grew in her mind: inclusion, presence, intention, and impact. These pillars, says Aya, are all necessary to engage with others in truly reciprocal ways.

Please watch the interview with Aya and Sara, and please feel free to use the four pillars in service learning and community engagement initiatives at your school. Please give Aya credit and a shout-out if you use her excellent framework!

I am SO grateful to Sara and Nathan for being intentional about engaging students in thoughtwork about service learning, and I am grateful to Aya for being reflective and intentional about sharing her ideas and framework with others.

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4 Pillars of Mindful Service - LeeAnne Lavender:Storyteller

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A grade 9 student at the International School of Kigali in Rwanda has created a new framework for service learning and community engagement called the "4 Pillars of Mindful Service". Check out this inspiring story!

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Contributed my Andrew Morrissey

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Earth Day 2025 | Activities & Resources for April 22 - Earth Day

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Earth Day is a reminder of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability, encouraging us to come together and take action for a healthier planet and brighter future.

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Community Engagement and Service as Action in the MYP - BETA

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Community Engagement and Service as Action in the MYP - BETA

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All Important links:

https://pds.ibo.org/Prototype10MYPBeta-EN/course/en/assets/674c0baa81f5935b38879f8b/file.pdf

https://pds.ibo.org/Prototype10MYPBeta-EN/course/en/assets/674c0bb581f5935b3887a3df/file.pdf

https://pds.ibo.org/Prototype10MYPBeta-EN/course/en/assets/674c0bbe81f5935b3887a833/file.pdf

https://pds.ibo.org/the-enhancing-the-myp-beta-trial-explained-EN/#/

https://pds.ibo.org/Prototype10MYPBeta-EN/#/menu/6716088b3cda1e4028a382f4

https://resources.ibo.org/permalink/11162-431167?lang=en

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https://guide.fariaedu.com/myp-service-as-action/service-as-action-living-the-learner-profile

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Personal benefits of community action also include:

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Personal benefits of community action also include:

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1. Psychological benefits: Community action increases overall life satisfaction and helps you feel good about yourself because you are working with and helping others. It can also help decrease stress and ease depression.

2. Social benefits: Action engages students with learning by creating special bonds with diverse communities and increasing social awareness, responsibility, and a deeper sense of reciprocal interdependence.

3. Cognitive benefits: Action helps students enhance their personal understanding, grow from new experiences, develop better interpersonal communication skills, spark life-long curiosity, and celebrate creative and innovative partnerships.

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https://embeddingproject.org/issue-snapshots/

https://embeddingproject.org/resources/

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Compass Education – Sustainability and Systems Thinking for Education

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A Collective Vision for the Future of Your School and the Good of the Planet

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Inspiring video to stand for what you believe should be your's

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Inspiring video to stand for what you believe should be your's

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How a group of Disabled people fought for their rights and justice?

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CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION | Official Trailer | Netflix | Documentary

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MYP Service as Action - Units 202526.xlsx

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January 9th Deadline - CAS SEMESTER 1 PASSFAIL - Grade 11 - 3832074