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Heroes of the War In this task, students will explore the concept of "heroism" and determine four heroes from the War of 1812 that deserve a monument. This task includes: |
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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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Historical Significance of General Brock, Part 1 In this task, students will investigate historical significances in modern times through an activity on the 2012 Olympics. This task includes: |
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Historical Significance of General Brock, Part 2 In this task, students will research General Sir Isaac Brock and why he is historically significant. They will then debate whether or not they think he deserves to be based on their findings. This task includes: |
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Holiday Card Exchange In this task, students will write holiday cards to other participating students around the world. This task includes: |
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Holiday Card Exchange In the Holiday Card Exchange task, classrooms explain their holiday traditions by sending cards to their partners around the world. Teachers and students will prepare an envelope with holiday cards to send to the other participants between October - December. Students may send Chinese New Year, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Eid greeting cards or cards that show local celebrations during December or January. Each school will be placed in a group with approximately seven other schools and will prepare either handmade or purchased cards (decorations may be included) to send to each of the other schools. |
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I Am an Artist In this task, students will explore self expression by creating a double sided painting, with each side representing their inner and outer selves. This task includes: |
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Ice Melting This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the knowledge of the Transfer of Energy. Students must design a way to investigate whether various materials can prevent heat gain in frozen water. This task includes: |
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Identifying Elements In this task, students will use diffraction glasses to observe differences in light. This task includes: |
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Immigration This task assesses students’ ability to contextualize two historical documents and place them in the correct chronological order. Drawing on students' knowledge about the American immigration boom of the 1800's, students are asked to place two related documents in order--and explain their reasoning, in effect taking their thinking beyond the rote recall of event dates, names and facts. Sources include Document A--part of an editorial from a San Francisco newspaper published in 1916, and Document B--an excerpt from a book titled A Tour in the United States by Archibald Prentice-published in 1848. Students who correctly contextualize the documents will see that Letter B, describing a rather simple immigration process for large numbers of German immigrants, was likely written before Letter A, which calls for legislation similar to the Chinese Exclusion Act in an attempt to exclude Japanese immigrants. |
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