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First Nations Involvement in the War, Part 2 In this task, students will explore the consequences of the First Nations involvement in the War of 1812 and explore the concept f continuity by determining how these past events are relevant today. This task includes: |
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Folk Costumes Around the Globe The Folk Costumes Around the Globe task is meant to give the students from as many countries as possible, a chance to share their folk/national costumes with other students and teachers in the world, to promote their folk art and traditions. The students will provide pictures of folk costumes from their countries together with a short description of them, and give information about the occasions on which people use/used to wear them. |
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Folk Costumes Around the World In this task, students will provide pictures and write descriptions of their traditional folk outfits and the cultural purposes behind them. This task includes: |
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Folk Tales/Storytelling: Past and Present In this task, students will connect with others around the world by sharing their folk stories through multiple digital forms. This task includes: |
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Folk Tales/Storytelling: Past and Present In the Folk Tales/Storytelling: Past and Present task, students will share their stories in traditional and digital forms and through live storytelling sessions, sharing pictures and videos prepared by students about folk tales. They will write essays and make power point presentations and share them on the project forum. |
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Future Citizen Project The Future Citizen Project task focuses on rights and duties of the citizen, tolerance and freedom, civic responsibilities and engagement. Students will research laws, elections, and governmental systems in their own country as well as complete a service learning project such as a voter registration drive, volunteering for a candidate, volunteering at the polls, or writing letters to government officials about important community issues. Students will monitor the international press for reports on human rights and election results. Students will create a documentary of their work in a photo journal, video tape, or multimedia presentation. |
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Future Citizen Project In this task, students will develop their leadership skills through creating a documentary on their research of government policies, involvement in local volunteering, and monitoring international press. This task includes: |
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Gardner's Civil War Photography This task assesses students’ ability to source, contextualize, and corroborate a primary source from the Civil War era. Students are asked to consider how the content of two photographs by famous Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner could affect their reliability. Then, students must think of other information they would like to know about the circumstances surrounding the photographs in order to further evaluate their reliability. Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors. |
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Get to Know Others In this task, students will research their own culture in order to compare and contrast to others. This task includes: |
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Get to Know Others In the Get to Know Others task, students study their own culture, traditions, and ways of life. Students make comparisons between their culture and other cultures to find similarities and differences. Students write reports and/or paint drawings reflecting their own cultures and traditions. Students write about their daily lives, how to celebrate weddings, and/or what they do on special occasions. |
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