DESCRIPTION Students collaborate with global peers to descrbe their schools and to show how they live their daily lives in their educational institutions. By participating in the project, students detect similarities and differences among schools around the world and reinforce their sense of identity for the school to which they attend while they increase their respect for other cultures. Students learn about school routines around the world by interacting with school students and teacher globally. Aspects such as school habits, school celebrations, sports, food and subjects are dealt with and students are encouraged to use their creativity to showcase their schools to the rest of the world. There is also a special point in the project in which students are asked to create multimedia product such as videos, photos and graphic designs to depict typical problems that afffects the community in which the school is immersed.
LANGUAGES Spanish, English
STUDENT AGE LEVELS 5-11 (Primary), 12-14 (Middle), 15-18 (Secondary)
POSSIBLE CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES Students and teachers introduce themselves in IEARN forum. Then, they are asked to localize their schools in a collaborative map created for the project. Students visit the project blog to have a look at the questionnaire that leads their research Multimedia pieces and texts are created to answer the questions about their own school- Final products are published in the project blog either by the teachers in charge of the participating groups or by the project facilitators on their behalf. Students should be encouraged to comment on the products published by the different schools and to put questions to generate more information.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES The expected outcome is a blog containing information about all the participating schools through different multimedia pieces.
GROUP CONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHERS AND/OR THE PLANET: The project fosters students´ interest in school life and education as a way to improve their knowledge of the world and their respect for cultural differences.
CURRICULUM AREA Language / English as a Foreign Language/ Social Studies/ Arts
RELATED PROJECT TO SDGs: 4. Quality Education 10. Reduced Inequalities 16. Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions 17. Partnerships for Global Goals
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