Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject English Language Arts, Art, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Folk Costumes Around the World
In this task, students will provide pictures and write descriptions of their traditional folk outfits and the cultural purposes behind them.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Classroom activities, project plan, student work examples
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject English Language Arts
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Folk Tales/Storytelling: Past and Present
In this task, students will connect with others around the world by sharing their folk stories through multiple digital forms.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Classroom activities, student work examples
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject English Language Arts
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Folk Tales/Storytelling: Past and Present
In the Folk Tales/Storytelling: Past and Present task, students will share their stories in traditional and digital forms and through live storytelling sessions, sharing pictures and videos prepared by students about folk tales. They will write essays and make power point presentations and share them on the project forum.
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Source Stanford Education Assessment Laboratory (SEAL)
Subject Science
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9 |
Friction
In this task, students will examine friction by determining the amount of force necessary to push an object over various surfaces.
This task includes:
1. Teacher Instructions
2. Student Notebook
3. Scoring Form
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject World Languages and Cultures, Interpersonal Development
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Future Citizen Project
In this task, students will develop their leadership skills through creating a documentary on their research of government policies, involvement in local volunteering, and monitoring international press.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Web resources, curriculum, student work examples
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Future Citizen Project
The Future Citizen Project task focuses on rights and duties of the citizen, tolerance and freedom, civic responsibilities and engagement. Students will research laws, elections, and governmental systems in their own country as well as complete a service learning project such as a voter registration drive, volunteering for a candidate, volunteering at the polls, or writing letters to government officials about important community issues. Students will monitor the international press for reports on human rights and election results. Students will create a documentary of their work in a photo journal, video tape, or multimedia presentation.
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Gardner's Civil War Photography
This task assesses students’ ability to source, contextualize, and corroborate a primary source from the Civil War era. Students are asked to consider how the content of two photographs by famous Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner could affect their reliability. Then, students must think of other information they would like to know about the circumstances surrounding the photographs in order to further evaluate their reliability.
Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors.
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject English Language Arts
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Get to Know Others
In the Get to Know Others task, students study their own culture, traditions, and ways of life. Students make comparisons between their culture and other cultures to find similarities and differences. Students write reports and/or paint drawings reflecting their own cultures and traditions. Students write about their daily lives, how to celebrate weddings, and/or what they do on special occasions.
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Art, English Language Arts, World Languages and Cultures, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Get to Know Others
In this task, students will research their own culture in order to compare and contrast to others.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Web Resources, student work examples
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject History/Social Studies, World Languages and Cultures, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Girls Rising Project
In this task, students will research and learn about the importance of equal rights as well as education for women around the world.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Web resources, classroom activities, discussion questions, test, student work examples
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