The exhibition is a gigantic project, which you will maintain through out fifth grade. Most students think that it is the most enjoyable part of the whole fifth grade. It is also the thing that makes fifth grade at BIS so different from all the other grades. In your exhibition, our can do a project about anything that has to do with growing up and the world around you. Some themes are:
· Eating Disorders
· Peer pressure
· Drugs
· Alcohol
· Puberty
· Natural disasters
· Music
· Fashion over time
· Asthma
· Stress
· Gangs
So as you can see your choice is very widely spread. But the tricky bit is not to choose a topic, but to maintain it. The exhibition is like no other unit, because you will not receive any information from your teacher or any specific tasks. You have to research your topic and answer some guiding questions. The information you collect in this way have to be presented in forms of a brochure, a poster and a PowerPoint presentation. After you have done so, you need to identify a problem, find a solution and determine a possible action.
After you have completed part one, you will move on to part two, in which the class will split up into small groups and share their results, solutions and actions, to create one group action and maintain it. Often it seems hard at first to do an action, but most students are able to take action by talking to other classes about their topic, or by creating a brochure, which they hand out to a certain group of people.
The exhibition is very special, because for most students it is the first time that they are working absolutely independently and freely as an individual and as a group. Not only does everyone have a different topic, but also everybody has an advisor. The advisor is a teacher; with whom you will meet while you are maintaining the exhibition. He/she will help you with any difficulties you have in your project and give you tips on how to improve your product and your working process. Yet they will not do the work for you but only guide and advise you through it. At the end your advisor will also asses you, just like your homeroom teacher and yourself. But in this project the grade isn’t the most important thing, the most important aspect of the exhibition is that you learn how to efficiently apply research and production skills in order to make the most of your time.
After both part one and part two, you will present your results and your achievements to your parent, your friends and your advisors with the others as a very formal event. Then it is sadly time to clean everything up again and after that has been done, the school year is over and the less formal part takes place: THE FIFTH GRADE GRADUATION!!!! This is a party for you your teachers and your parents at which you celebrate the last day of fifth grade and have a big party and after that you are well prepared for secondary school.