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Global Art: A Sense of Caring The purpose of the Global Art: A Sense of Caring task is to support youth to exchange digital photos/artwork and writing on the theme of caring. Students will write a story or a poem on his/her ideas of caring. They will then create an artwork according to the story and design a class Service Learning project that demonstrates caring for others and take action to benefit the community and show how much they care about. |
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Global Art: A Sense of Caring In this task, students will create a presentation on what it means to be a caring person and then design a caring activity that will benefit the community. This task includes: |
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Global Food Show and Tell In this task, students will research and share different recipes and foods eaten in their country. This task includes: |
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Global Food Show and Tell In the Global Food Show and Tell task, students will share, compare, and contrast different types of foods eaten in their home countries. This task includes a possible classroom activity. |
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Global Math The Global Math task uses math as a unifying tool to investigate and understand our shared world. Students will use basic secondary mathematics to observe symmetry in their surroundings, compare regional temperatures, model population growth, gather statistics about their communities and measure the size of Earth. The goal is to use mathematics as a common language to facilitate investigation and collaboration. |
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Heart to Heart The Heart to Heart task is a project that promotes friendship around the world.It is a project that involves writing. Students will share their feelings / emotions and participate in different themes monthly. Each month a new theme will be posted and students will respond, post pictures, make videos, participate in videoconferences, and write about that theme in the project forum. |
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Heritage Around the World In this task, students will decide on any aspect of their Country's heritage to research. This task includes: |
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Heritage around the World/Patrimoine Mondial The Heritage around the World/Patrimoine Mondial task enables students to share the heritage of their country. Students will choose a topic relating to their country's heritage and illustrate the topic through descriptions, articles, films, videos, and audio documents. The Heritage can include architecture, stories, tales, oral traditions, dances, music, intruments, crafts, endangered species, endangered water reserves, climate changes experienced during our lifetime, and any other topics of interest. |
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Hip Hop On The Spot The Hip Hop On The Spot task aims to unite young people from different countries by means of a collaborative musical and literary creation through hip hop, a street culture in which young people are the protagonists. The project begins with a theme for youngsters to write one RAP, speaking of iEARN, youth and collaborative creation. Lyrics should have 8 metric syllables. The rhyme should be posted to the project forum and the project facilitator will then organize completed lyrics for the full song and re-post to the forum. |
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Hip Hop on the Spot In this task, students will work together to write a rap abut youth cooperation. This task includes: |
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