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Money Matters In this task, students will collaborate with participating classes in discussing their opinions of money in an online forum. This task includes: |
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Money Matters In the Money Matters task, students will l be able to get into conversation about money, learn some facts about history of money and about money in other countries, discuss students’ pocket money and proverbs about money, make media products about money. |
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Morocco - USA One Day in the Life Project Exchange In this task, students will make cross cultural comparisons with other students whom they have been speaking to through multiple forms. This task includes: |
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Morocco - USA One Day in the Life Project Exchange In the Morocco - USA One Day in the Life Project Exchange task, students will exchange messages, images, videos, and other media describing days in their lives, and then make cross-cultural comparisons. Students will work on three project challenges to explore different aspects of everyday life and create different media product. The three challenges include: 1) everyday life and routines - photos with captions and a photo essay, 2) "Where I'm From" community and neighborhoods - individual and group poems, and 3) youth culture and defying stereotypes - photo or video blog. |
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Music of the World In this task, students will collaborate in creating an original song using instruments from around the world. Each age group will have a specific task in creating the song as a whole student body. This task includes: |
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Music of the World In the Music of the World task, students will work together to create and perform an original song, using instruments from around the world. This task includes several possible classroom activities. |
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My City and Me In this task, students will share the environmental, social, and cultural aspects of the cities they live in with their global peers. This task includes: |
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My City and Me In the My City and Me task, students will learn about cultural, social and environmental aspects of the cities we live in. Students will make survey about advantages and disadvantages of living in the city and make presentations about the city ( cultural aspect). They will conduct research about what youth can do to improve their city life (social aspect). |
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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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