PYP students are encouraged to ask questions. Students can help their teacher to create a bulletin board filled with questions and colorful illustrations. Teachers may select a specific topic, such as clouds, the stars, animals or plants. Students draw, paint or color pictures and formulate questions about the subject. Students may write their questions under their pictures about the origin or nature of a subject, such as "Why are clouds white?" or "What do earthworms eat?"
The themes incorporated into the PYP learning environment helps the student to develop global thinking. A global rainbow can be created using color construction paper arcs of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. Each of the transdisciplinary themes can be printed neatly on each arc. The themes encourage students to think about who we are, our place in the world and our time, self expression, the way the world works, self-organization, and sharing the planet with others. The rainbow may be placed over a picture of the Earth.
PYP students are taught to care about the feelings of others and to try to understand their needs. A bulletin board filled with illustrations of kids helping others is a good way to illustrate the concept of "caring." Students can participate in creating a "caring" bulletin board by drawing, coloring or painting pictures of people caring for other people. Examples of "caring" may include opening the door for an elderly person or someone who is carrying children and bags.
Students educated using a PYP curriculum receive instruction on the importance of maintaining a well-balanced life. The students are taught physical and mental balance in their lives. A balanced scale can demonstrate the importance of balancing physical and intellectual pursuits. The main item on the bulletin board will be a scale. Academic pictures, such as books and computers, are placed on one side of the scale and physical activity pictures, such as a slide and a bicycle, on the other side of the scale.