marcie mehta 2012

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Marcie MehtaThe American School of Kinshasa

(TASOK)

Middle School Science TeacherKinshasa, DRC

Tel no. +243 977967Email:[email protected]

Skype Id: marcie.mehta1


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My Life at TASOK

A healthy breakfastEvery middle school classgets a shot at KitchenChemistry once a month.

Here G8 is making ahealthy breakfast as part of

their unit on Nutrition andHealthy living.

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A Map in a Pan

And then fill the pan

in which the mountainrested with coloredwater 1 cm at a timeand draw contourlines on the lid of thepan.

How do you read a topographicmap? Here is a fun way of

understanding it!Students make aclay mountain on apotters wheel.

Topography in Clay

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Marcies Globes Grade7Learning about models of the Earth

SCIENCE IS FUN

What do fruit, games and creative

problem solving have to do with the studyof science? In Mrs. Mehtas 7th grade

Earth Science class, it means the hands-onculmination of a unit in which studentslearn about maps and globes.

Parents supports the motivational

strategies this teacher uses to get herstudents excited about the study of theearth by sending in the fruits they need.

TASOK talk 7th Sept 2012(TASOKs weekly new letter.)

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The Bone DanceLearning about the skeletal system

Who would have

thought learning thenames of bones could besuch fun?

We even performed adance, wearing a T-shirt

with the thoracicskeleton that we hadpainted in art class.

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The Sound of MusicAn interdisciplinary unit of sound and music

Different entry points to a unit can fire astudents imagination, making learning atreat, never a task.

These instruments

were made by studentwith the help of theschool carpenter,taking into account thephysics of pitch andvolume.

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Drop Everything and Plant (DEAP)Celebrating and caring for the TASOK botanical garden

Every year Middle School studentsplant hard wood trees, commercial

trees or fruit trees in the botanicalgarden.

This year they have opted to plantflower beds around the Middle andElementary Schools.

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Marcie Mehta

The International School of

Uganda (ISU)Middle School Science Teacher/

MYP Coordinator

Kampala, Uganda


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Exhibition of Personal Projects

One of my responsibilities asMYP coordinator was toorganize an exhibition of

grade 10 personal projects atthe end of the school year.This activity generated a hugeamount of interest andmotivated students in theother MYP years to produceinteresting projects.

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Kitchen Chemistry

Students learning aboutphysical and chemicalchange. A scrumptious pizzais an example of chemicalchange.

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An Interdisciplinary Unit: Science andVisual Art

This was a grade 7 unit ofstudy called eco-etho

jewelry. Students studied theproperties of metals and thenmade jewelry from recycledmetal. Some earrings werebought by proud parents foras much as $20 a pair. The

proceeds went towardsbuying stationary for HIV/AIDS orphans.

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Earth Day 2009

I introduced the celebration

of Earth Day to ISU. One ofthe many recycling projectsthat MYP year 3 studentstried to make, was a mineralwater bottle greenhousesimilar to this one.

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Solar Cookers

Students designed solarcookers as part of an Earth

Day activity and then meltedsmores in them.

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Partnership with Harvard UniversityVeronica Boix-Mansilla,principal investigator forHarvards Project Zero,visiting one of thecommunity and serviceprojects I supported.She was in Uganda visitingISU to investigate aninterdisciplinary unit ofstudy I had written. The unit

of study Sound of Musicwas an exemplar for an IBpublication.

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MYP

ModeratorsConference in

Portugal

Some of the MYP Personal Projectmoderators I worked with.

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Having Some Fun in

Europe

During one of the many workshops I attended for MYP training invarious cities around Europe including Geneva and Lisbon.

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Shaggy DogShow

For 6 years I was involved inorganizing and running thechildrens tent at the Shaggy

Dog Show in Kampala. Someof the activities included:origami, face painting,painting clay pots etc.

My family loves pets and

my husband and I were longstanding members ofUganda Society for theProtection and Care ofAnimals (USPCA).

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One of my Hobbies:Making Bead Jewelry

The bead shop here is at theKazuri Beads Factory inNairobi, Kenya. It is a wellknown project famouslyadvertised in magazines likeHarpers Bazaar.

I have also run an after

school activity called MakingBead Jewelry in some of theschools I taught at.

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Celebrating WomensDay March 8, 2007

I enjoy entertaining

friends and family on aregular basis. This is oneof the lunches I hosted forfemale colleagues of theMYP team on WomensDay.

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TropicalAmbience

A small company I started as

a hobby to landscapegardens for friends andacquaintances. I alsoarrange flowers for specialoccasions, church functions,and school events like

graduation.

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BrookhouseSchool, Nairobi,Kenya

The elementary and middle

schools at Brookhouse. A Britishcurriculum school where I workedfor 6 years prior to joining theInternational School of Uganda.

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THANK YOU

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