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My Mother, Your Mother In the My Mother, Your Mother task, students will research, write essays and poems, discuss, and draw heir own mothers. Topics will include their mother's role in their families, how she brought them up, and how she showed them how to become good members in their societies. Students will also research famous mothers in their countries. |
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My Mother, Your Mother In this task, students will participate in a series of activities that will help them appreciate appreciation for their mothers. They will discuss the roles their mothers play in their lives and research famous mothers around the world. This task includes: |
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My School, Your School In this task, students will discuss with their global peers about their daily life at school to shed light on educational institutions around the world. This task includes: |
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National Toys In the National Toys task, students will research and share the information about their national toys, including the instructions on how to create them for the partners to learn from the findings of the peers in other parts of the world and to make their school collections of handmade toys. |
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National Toys In this task, students will research their country's national toys. They will then construct that toy and provide detailed instructions so that their global peers may participate. This task includes: |
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Nature's Global Zoo In this task, students will collaborate with their local peers and research animals native to their country and create a virtual zoo for their area that others can visit. This task includes: |
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OF2 - Our Footprints, Our Future In the OF2 - Our Footprints, Our Future task, students will use online tools and resources to measure their carbon footprint and develop ways to reduce their carbon usage. Through the (OF)2 project, students will input data about their lifestyles into a unique online youth calculator developed by Zerofootprint.net that has been adapted to recognize different cultural and socio-economic settings, housing, modes of transportation and food consumption. Students will discuss how their lifestyle affects climate changes around the world. |
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OF2 - Our Footprints, Our Future In this task, students will use online resources to measure their carbon footprint and discover ways to lessen their carbon usage. This task includes: |
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One Day in the Life In this task, students will document aspects of their daily lives, or vacations, through essays and photographs. This task includes: |
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One Day in the Life In the One Day in the Life task, students will write about, photograph, and discuss their daily lives. Students will exchange messages and images describing days in their lives with students around the world, and then make cross-cultural comparisons. Students may document aspects of a typical day (like visiting the market or going to school) or they may document special days (like vacations, birthdays, celebrations, or holidays.) |
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