humanities department

projects

'Understanding the Past, Challenging the Present & Shaping the Future'

 

Grade 6

Teacher: Brian Lettinga

email: lettingab@ciccaracas.com.ve

• Quarter 1 - Map Skills and Geography
  
  Map to school Project
  Five Themes of Geography Project
  Landforms Riddle Book
  
  
  
• Quarter 2- History and the Middle Ages
  
  Personal Time-line
  Descriptive Essay (Middle Ages Lifestyles)
  Read - Midwife's Apprentice
  
  
• Quarter 3- Junior Model United Nations
  
  JMUN - One Issue Summary
              One Opening Speech
              One Resolution
              One country research report
  
  
• Quarter 4 - Globalization
  
  Global Personality research
  Multinational Corporation research
  Global Sport research
  

Grade 7

Teacher: Brian Lettinga

email: lettingab@ciccaracas.com.ve

• Quarter 1- Climate and Weather
  
  Weather Web Quest
  Climate Collage

• Quarter 2 - The Renaissance
  
  Renaissance Power Point Presentation
  Read - Catherine Called Birdy
  

• Quarter 3 - Junior Model United Nations
  
  JMUN -   Two Issue Summaries
                One Opening Speech
                One Country Research Report
                Two Resolutions
  

• Quarter 4 - Age of Exploration
  
  Explorer PowerPoint Presentation
  Explorer Resume
  Cultures,  Group Project - Amish, Yanomami, Viking
  
  

Grade 8

Teacher: Natalie Jeffers

email: jeffersn@ciccaracas.com.ve

• QUARTER ONE - FROM EXPLORATION TO EMANCIPATION
  
  This unit of work links to Exploration unit of work covered in grade 7 – students have developed concepts relating to world explorers and the influencing factors of how exploration was possible – They will now develop concepts of consequence – this picture will be developed over time using real life examples and a large range of historical/analytical skills. Some students will begin to develop higher order thinking skills that will be easily transferable throughout grade 8 units.

General Topic Overview:
settlement, political structures, social systems, mercantilism and the colonial economy, trade, slavery and treatment of indigenous populations, pre black civil rights theory and reality

• QUARTER TWO - The Age of Enlightenment and Consequences

This unit of work continues from Unit one – From Exploration to Emancipation. It focuses on Transforming political ideas and in which ways this leads to change. Focus on historical case studies - The American civil war, The war of independence (South America,) The black civil rights movement. Delivered in the correct sequential order. To allow for a greater depth of historical understanding of cause, effects and consequence. Delivered in the correct sequential order. To allow for a greater depth of historical understanding of cause, effects and consequence.

General Topic overview:
Focus on historical case studies - The American civil war, The war of independence (South America,) The black civil rights movement.

• QUARTER THREE - JMUN

This unit of work is the final year of a three year programme at CIC. Students at this stage unless new to the school have developed their JMUN skills and understanding and should be demonstrating higher order thinking skills and work production rates. Each year the issues change and so in hand so will the Guiding Questions.

General Topic Overview:
Students are asked to investigate issues within a selected committee. These are done from a national and global viewpoint. Students are given a country in which they will represent and debate for. Students are expected to create 2 resolutions an opening speech and 8 weeks of investigation, analysis and folder organization.

Junior Model United Nations (photo album)

• QUARTER FOUR - Glacial, River and Coastal landforms, processes and their environments.

This unit of work is the only core Geography unit in Year 8 – although students may have supporting knowledge gained from JMUN issues and year 1 and 2 of the MYP. They will be expected to use a large range of humanities and Geographical skills. These will be delivered through geographical theory and the use of case studies.

General Topic Overview:
All three Marine ecosytems studies in this unit are unique but interrelate and impact each other, their surrounding environments and Human activities. Formation, change and future contemporary issues will be looked at in depth.

 

Grade 9

Teacher: Natalie Jeffers

email: jeffersn@ciccaracas.com.ve

 

• QUARTER ONE - Demography. Food Supply.
  Population, migration and Control Policies.
  
  
  This unit of work was developed with the aim of improving the students knowledge already gained from their learning of settlements, man made environments and migration delivered in Late Elementary. Students will look at the relationship between population, Supply and Demand. This unit of work is primarily Geographical but also links strongly to Economic theories and Beginner Anthropology.

General Topic Overview:
Students are given concepts, knowledge and Theory relating to Population, movement, policies and control. Trade, agriculture, food production and limitation, Supply, demand and the governing agencies. Finally students will focus their knowledge and understanding and then put this into a developmental context.

 

• QUARTER TWO - People & Politics
Independent Movements and nation-building.

This unit of work is aimed at delivering social, cultural and political Humanities. This unit of work will be subject to content change as the main body of study is based on current affairs and current and changing political systems. Students will use key humanities skills gained previously and developing their higher order learning skills. Politics will be studies on a local, regional and global scale and will be studies over space and time.

General Topic Overview:
Student delivery of politics will be done primarily through ideology and beliefs, changes of ideology and impact on current political choices. The impact of ideologies on Reality. (past, present and future – e.g. wars, civil movements, creation of allies, cultural integration)

 

• QUARTER THREE - Past Present and Future Environmental issues.

This unit of work focuses on range of environmental concepts issues, realities, changes, and solutions and then the limitations of these are studied. Economic aspects and considerations are also explored e. g .market failure, externalities, pollution, resource depletion, regulations, and international co-operation e.g. Kyoto Protocol.

General topic overview:
Students should at this stage of the academic year have developed a good range of analytical skills needed to deal with the levels of debate and discussions related to the understanding of our use, adaptions and changes taking effect of our environments. Local studies are based around Venezuelan environment and changes overtime. Regional studies focus around Latin America environment and changes. Global studies are focused around international impacts, awareness, theories and solutions.

 

Grade 10

Teacher: Natalie Jeffers

email: jeffersn@ciccaracas.com.ve

• Green Revolution Debate
• SAMUN (photo album)

 

IB Economics

Teacher: Tom Sweeting

email: sweetingt@ciccaracas.com.ve

• Company startup / New Business venture collaborative project with MYP Social Studies
• Ambassador Roundtable with students-EU, Andean Pact countries
• Assembly Speaker Series: leading figures invited to be guest speakers on a broad range of issues. Series is oriented to enriching the international and multicultural perspective aspects of student learning here at CIC .
• Venezuelan Central Bank visit and educational orientation program at the Central Bank headquarters
• United Nations/OAS- educational program on-site at their offices here in Caracas
• Curacao Cross-Curricular Project : case study of the recent economic development experience of Curacao , current situation, and future outlook/plans)

 

IB History

Teacher: Tom Sweeting

email: sweetingt@ciccaracas.com.ve

• Curacao History Cross-curricular project: explore the decolonization experience of Curacao as a case study of the broader Caribbean decolonization experience in the 20 th c.

 

IB Geography

Teacher: Natalie Jeffers

email: jeffersn@ciccaracas.com.ve

• Curacao Fieldwork projects: Beach Analysis and Tourism in Willemstad (photo album)
• Landslides fieldwork: Caracas risk assessment and Mass Movement
• Population and development in Mauritius
• Development and Venezuela : To what extent can Venezuela be considered developed?
• SAMUN (photo album)

 

Theory of Knowledge

Teachers: Howard Horowitz (horowitzh@ciccaracas.com.ve)

Len Whalen (whalenl@ciccaracas.com.ve)

• Role Play Debate: Religion Vs Science
• Investigation: Science and its flaws - Carried out as part of the Curacao multi-disciplinary trip
• Socratic seminars: History as a way of knowing. Language as a tool for acquiring knowledge

 

Model United Nations Program

Junior Model United Nations (JMUN):

Teacher: Natalie Jeffers

email: jeffersn@ciccaracas.com.ve

A two day model united simulation for students of grades 6 through 8. This event caters for approximately 200 students from across Caracas and is a compulsory part of the curriculum for all CIC middle school students.

Check out our photo album from this year's JMUN conference here.

 

South American Model United Nations (SAMUN):

Teacher: Tom Sweeting

email: sweetingt@ciccaracas.com.ve

email: samun@ciccaracas.com.ve

This is a four day model united nations simulation that is hosted by CIC for students from across the Latin American region. The conference usually hosts approximately 400 students and is held at the CIC campus and the Caracas JW Marriott hotel.

Check out many of the past personalities and activities at our SAMUN photo album here.

 

The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN):

www.thimun.org

Each year CIC selects a team of talented MUN students to represent the school at THIMUN. This is the largest student MUN conference in the world with approximately 4000 participants and it acts as the official voice of youth to the United Nations in New York where many of the recommendations from this conference are sent.

Here are the photos from past THIMUN trips.