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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.

Source
iEARN Collaboration Centre

Subject
World Languages and Cultures, English Language Arts, Art, History/Social Studies, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

My School, Your School

In this task, students will discuss with their global peers about their daily life at school to shed light on educational institutions around the world. 

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Classroom activities, web resources, video, worksheet

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

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.

Source
ConnectEd

Subject
English Language Arts, Science, Mathematics, History/Social Studies, Health Science, World Languages and Cultures, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
9, 10, 11, 12

Risky Business

This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. 

Unit description from the source: Students will learn about lifestyle and genetic influences on health status and about the health insurance system in the United States. They will imagine a future healthcare environment in which technology has greatly advanced, treatment costs have escalated, and individual lifestyle and medical data are widely available to insurers. In this scenario, insurance companies routinely use this kind of information to create programs aimed at improving health outcomes, set insurance rates, approve or deny applications for health insurance, and reduce healthcare expenses.

Source
ConnectEd

Subject
World Languages and Cultures, Science, Mathematics, History/Social Studies, Health Science, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
9, 10, 11, 12

Second Opinion

This unit includes an unit overview and 2 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. 

Unit description from the source: In this unit, students will explore the variety of medical practices that exist outside of conventional Western medicine. Complementary and alternative medicine, known as CAM, is becoming more widely accepted in the United States as our population becomes more diverse. At the same time, scrutiny of these practices, some of which are not subject to any regulatory oversight, is an issue that becomes increasingly pressing for the healthcare industry, healthcare workers, and the general public. 

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