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Early People Symbols In this task, students will explore the significance and meaning of early cultural symbols. This task includes: |
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Early People Symbols The purpose of the Early People Symbols is to explore early people’s symbols meaning and history. In the Early People Symbols (EPS) project, students will explore the meanings of their cultural symbols. They will start by doing research (Internet, local libraries, museums, art books, and artifacts such as rugs, wall, ceiling, floor drawings, pictographs, etc.) in their communities. Then, they will briefly tell the story related to the symbol using journals, Voice Threads, PowerPoint Presentations, videos or digital photos. Students are also invited to create a drawing or painting using these symbols |
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Every Day is Earth Day In the Every Day is Earth Day task, students will write short essays “Save the Earth” or poems related to this problem. They will take photos, create drawings, videos where they really help to protect the environment. |
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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: |
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Get to Know Others In this task, students will research their own culture in order to compare and contrast to others. This task includes: |
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Global Art: A Sense of Caring The purpose of the Global Art: A Sense of Caring task is to support youth to exchange digital photos/artwork and writing on the theme of caring. Students will write a story or a poem on his/her ideas of caring. They will then create an artwork according to the story and design a class Service Learning project that demonstrates caring for others and take action to benefit the community and show how much they care about. |
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Global Art: A Sense of Caring In this task, students will create a presentation on what it means to be a caring person and then design a caring activity that will benefit the community. This task includes: |
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Holiday Card Exchange In the Holiday Card Exchange task, classrooms explain their holiday traditions by sending cards to their partners around the world. Teachers and students will prepare an envelope with holiday cards to send to the other participants between October - December. Students may send Chinese New Year, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Eid greeting cards or cards that show local celebrations during December or January. Each school will be placed in a group with approximately seven other schools and will prepare either handmade or purchased cards (decorations may be included) to send to each of the other schools. |
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Holiday Card Exchange In this task, students will write holiday cards to other participating students around the world. This task includes: |
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International Intercultural Mural Exchange In this task, students will interact with an international partner school through online forums in order to create a mural. This task includes: |
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