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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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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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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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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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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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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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Special Place The Special Place task is a project promoting intercultural understanding and contributing to a better world to live in and students are invited to share local places that are precious to them in any digital forms. Students will select one local spot that gives them or their community special feelings and write a story about the unusual meanings of the places. They will use short stories with videos, ppt slides, digital photos or drawing to show us what theirr special place looks like. They may select any writing genre (creative, informative, humorous, etc.) or write a poem to describe their special place, and share what is special about it for them. |
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Taisho Koto In the Taisho Koto task, students will explore the harmonies from Taisho Koto, a traditional Japanese instrument. They will learn about musical traditions and gain an appreciation of diverse musical traditions. |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites In the UNESCO World Heritage Sites task, students will explore and research the heritage of their country. In the forum, they will present their country and Unesco heritage sites, it's history, the tales about the place, and its meaning in their country's and the world's history. |
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