Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Interdisciplinary, Art, World Languages and Cultures, History/Social Studies
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject History/Social Studies, Art, World Languages and Cultures, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Classroom activities, web resources, student work examples
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject History/Social Studies, Interdisciplinary, Art, World Languages and Cultures
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Biology, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Classroom activities, detailed lesson plan, student work examples
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Interdisciplinary, math, Science, Technology, Environmental Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8 |
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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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject History/Social Studies, Career and Technology, Digital Design, Art, English Language Arts, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Classroom activities, FAQ, video interview, sample project plans, student work examples
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Interdisciplinary, Technology, History/Social Studies, English Language Arts
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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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Source Performance Assessment Links in Math (PALM), Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Peat Pots
This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the knowledge of the Earth System. Students must observe and calculate the capillarity of soil by observing a peat pot in water.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Interdisciplinary, World Languages and Cultures, English Language Arts
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Pen Friends
In the Pen Friends task, students will exchange letters with students in Japan. They will learn and understand about the culture, school life and so forth both their own country and others’. They also learn the skill of language and possibly make a life long friend.
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Math (PALM), Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Pond-water Populations
This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Balance of Populations in Ecosystems. Students must design and complete an experiment to show how variables affect the growth of organisms in an aquarium or pond setting.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
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