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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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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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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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Girls Rising Project In the Girls Rising Project task, students will watch "Girl Rising" (or excerpted chapters at: Nepal Chapter http://youtu.be/Hk2Q7WLzn0sand Peru Chapter http://youtu.be/7P6nL7PXILw if the full DVD is not available) and, then share their reflections. Students are encouraged to share ideas about what they can do to make the situation of girls in the world and in their own country better. |
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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 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 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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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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