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About International Baccalaureate

Founded in 1968, the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB) offers three high quality and challenging educational programs to students ages 3-19. The IB programmes have a reputation for high academic standards and a focus on globalized 21st-century learning. Currently, IB works with more than 3,185 schools and 916,000 students in 140 countries.

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For over 40 years, IB has offered curriculum that blends intercultural understanding and respect with pedagogical leadership. Together, ePals and IB developed these quick classroom activities to promote these goals, while embedding digital literacy skills. Try them in your classroom!

Write a Persona Poem
Persona poems are a good way to introduce?students to new classmates or new friends on ePals.?To collaborate with other students around the world, completed poems may be posted?in the Publishers/Creative Corner Student Forum under the topic Persona Poems.

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Sports Action
Students use sounds, movements and action words related to their favorite sport to create a description full of energy and create a poem that captures the feeling of playing or watching that sport.

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Learn From a Traditional Tale
Students watch or read a traditional tale from the ePals Storytelling Exploration and then explain the lesson that they think the story is trying to teach.

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Students browse and select from the ePals Student Featured Photo Gallery and brainstorm alternative titles for their selected photo.

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What Will the History Books Say About Us?
Students imagine that their counterparts in the future are reading history books about our current time period. In teams of two, or in small groups, students work together to brainstorm and write about global events of the early twenty-first century.

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Food for Thought
Students browse photos of local foods from ePals Students around the world and consider what foods are currently being harvested in their own region. They then plan a mean and create a recipe based on their local foods.

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With classrooms in 140 countries, IB long sought a way to digitally connect its community of IB students, educators, and alumni. In 2009, ePals provided the solution. ePals and IB together developed a customized, innovative virtual community to connect IB members using safe and collaborative communication tools and to create authentic learning experiences and interactions on a global scale.