3rd Classes
Amerikan Kültür
Özel Bandırma Koleji İlkokulu
Turkish lesson
Our Goal: Raising Critical Thinking and Questioning Readers
One of the main goals of Turkish education at American Culture – Private Bandırma College is to give students the habit of reading by “thinking and questioning”. In line with this goal, we carry out studies to develop listening, speaking, reading-comprehension and writing skills.
How Does Reading Speed and Comprehension Increase?
Reading Circle: Students discuss the sections they read in groups formed from the books they choose and complete various tasks. In this way, they can better understand and interpret what they read.
Differentiated Activities: We organize various activities that enrich the reading process and appeal to every student.
Creative Writing Activities: We help students develop their imagination and narrative skills.
Presentation and Speaking Skills: We develop students’ self-confidence and communication skills by allowing them to present the products they have prepared.
Children’s Literature: We enrich our program with children’s literature books with content parallel to PYP transdisciplinary themes.
Library Hour: By holding one Turkish lesson hour in the library every week, we ensure that students gain the habit of reading books and develop their responsibility to keep track of the books they borrow.
Social Studies Lesson
Our goal: To ensure that our fourth grade students become individuals who understand, question and change the world.
Our program:
Within the scope of PYP transdisciplinary themes, we process all the achievements of the MEB social studies course in a thematic and questioning way.
We focus on developing basic life skills such as time management, chronology, financial literacy, map literacy, change and continuity, entrepreneurship, cooperation, self-management, problem solving and social participation.
We provide structured learning opportunities (group work, brainstorming, P4C, Socratic discussion, six thinking hats technique, gamification, station work, conversation circle, etc.) to enable students to be the subjects of their own learning.
Our Important Activities:
During the exhibition process, which is among the most important activities of the fourth grade, our students research global issues that concern the whole world. They deeply research the issues they identify and take various actions that can provide solutions to the problems and create social awareness.
The achievements are supported with children’s literature books, interviews, films, and trips within and outside the province that are appropriate for transdisciplinary themes and achievements.
Science Class
To raise individuals who are curious about science, who are researchers and problem solvers.
Our program:
In science class, beyond acquiring unit outcomes, we focus on developing scientific process skills (observation, measurement, prediction, inference, determining variables, data collection and organization, data interpretation and modeling) and life skills (analytical thinking, decision making, creative thinking, entrepreneurship, communication and teamwork).
In order to encourage innovative thinking, we approach science class from a transdisciplinary perspective with the IB – PYP program.
We conduct our lessons in a way that appeals to multiple senses, with group work in the laboratory, individual work and experiments.
We ensure that students learn information meaningfully and permanently with in-class and out-of-school learning environments (schoolyard, science centers, museums, planetariums, botanical gardens, natural environments, etc.).
We enable students to develop their skills in project design, model and product creation, product introduction and experimentation with events such as Science Festival.
Gains in Science Class:
- Earth Crust and Movements of Our World / World and Universe:
- Recognizing the rocks that make up the structure of the world
- Having an idea about the formation of fossils
- Understanding the rotation and rotation movements of the world
- Being able to establish a movement relationship between the Sun and the Earth and interpreting the time periods (day-night, day-year) associated with these movements
Math class
To raise individuals who are curious about science, who are researchers and problem solvers.
Our program:
In science class, beyond acquiring unit outcomes, we focus on developing scientific process skills (observation, measurement, prediction, inference, determining variables, data collection and organization, data interpretation and modeling) and life skills (analytical thinking, decision making, creative thinking, entrepreneurship, communication and teamwork).
In order to encourage innovative thinking, we approach science class from a transdisciplinary perspective with the IB – PYP program.
We conduct our lessons in a way that appeals to multiple senses, with group work in the laboratory, individual work and experiments.
We ensure that students learn information meaningfully and permanently with in-class and out-of-school learning environments (schoolyard, science centers, museums, planetariums, botanical gardens, natural environments, etc.).
We enable students to develop their skills in project design, model and product creation, product introduction and experimentation with events such as Science Festival.
Gains in Science Class:
- Earth Crust and Movements of Our World / World and Universe:
- Recognizing the rocks that make up the structure of the world
- Having an idea about the formation of fossils
- Understanding the rotation and rotation movements of the world
- Being able to establish a movement relationship between the Sun and the Earth and interpreting the time periods (day-night, day-year) associated with these movements