Out-door Education (Field Trips)
Qingdao Chaoyin Middle School (Jinsha Road Campus) offers immersive learning experiences that extend education beyond the classroom and bring it to life in real-world settings. The outdoor program features carefully selected field trips, allowing students to explore themes such as nature, history, science, environmental studies, and marine biology through hands-on practice.
For instance, in the Canada Study Tour program, students visit the Vancouver Museum. Through concept-driven inquiry, they connect with local history and culture, reflecting on the question: “How has history shaped human life and the environment?”
Clad in flowing Song-dynasty robes and armed with a single writing brush, the Chaoyin “mini-Song scholars” wear a millennium of Central-Plains culture on their sleeves and ink it into their hearts. At the Longmen Grottoes they rub Wei-stele inscriptions, discovering how Chinese calligraphy has leapt across languages to become a shared global art form. Inside the ancient Kaifeng Prefecture hall they chant “Record of Yueyang Tower,” debating how the Confucian maxim “worry before the world worries” still informs contemporary global citizenship. In Millennium Park they set movable type themselves, seeing how a Song-era invention once carried knowledge along the Silk Road to the wider world. When they present the poems they have printed to international visitors, the Central-Plains story enters a global dialogue and each student’s identity shines through cross-cultural exchange—an eloquent footnote to the IB call to “stay rooted in your own culture while embracing a global vision.”
Guided by the IB Global Context of “Globalization and Sustainability,” Chaoyin students hike Mount Fu. As they trace Qingdao’s mountain-sea trail, they act as citizen-scientists—logging species, tallying litter, and using live data to interrogate human impact on urban ecosystems. In teams they craft “Leave-No-Trace” micro-campaigns, turning reduce-plastic, save-energy and sort-waste pledges into shareable social initiatives that feed the wider SDG conversation. When sweat falls on Fu’s granite, learners grasp: global goals begin underfoot, and personal choices can ripple worldwide.
