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My Country In this task, students will express themselves through multiple forms to their global peers. They will learn to understand each others' lives in various countries. This task includes: |
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My Country In the My Country task, students will express themselves through essays, drawings, poetry, on different aspects of their country. Students throughout the world can participate in the project by writing, drawing or sending pictures about population, culture, surface, agriculture, industry, economy, and environment. |
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My Country Flag In the My Country Flag task, students will discuss their own country flag, their history, what the colors of their own flags connote, and what changes their flags have undergone during different phases of history. Students will research their own country flags, its color, what it means, what it signifies, why some changes have been made to their flags, and its purpose. At the same time, they will widely exchange information with students from different parts of the world and learn about their flag and history. |
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My Country Flag In this task, students will write essays and discuss their county's flag and the meaning of the colors used. This task includes: |
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My Dream World In the My Dream World task, students will share their ideas about their dream world through writing essays, prose, poems and short stories or drawing pictures. This task includes several possible classroom activities. |
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My Dream World In this task, students will be able to discuss and complete projects about their ideal world. This task includes: |
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My Hero Project In the My Hero Project task, students will use MY HERO, an interdisciplinary, online, interactive Web site that celebrates the best of humanity through essays, artwork, audio, drama, and short films. Students will publish essays and submit multimedia online about their heroes. The project seeks to promote cultural awareness, activism and understanding through global storytelling that honors the heroes in our families, the community and the world. |
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My Hero Project In this task, students will publish essays and multimedia projects about their personal heroes to raise global cultural awareness. This task includes: |
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My Identity, Your Identity In the My Identity, Your Identity task, students will explore and research the elements that form their identities. These elements include the traditions and the famous landmarks in their communities, which are parts of their cultures and identities. Students talk about the traditional celebrations they have and how they celebrate them, including the kinds of clothes they wear, they types of food they cook on those special days, and the styles of music they listen to. |
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My Identity, Your Identity In this task, students will interact with their global peers and explain their country's traditional celebrations, monuments, and landmarks. This task includes: |
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