by Rob Madrid | Jul 22, 2025
Dreamline’s Dream Banner Project
Grade/Age:
Primary (5-11), Middle (12-14), Secondary (15-18)
Subject:
Creative & Language Arts, Social Studies
Global Goals:
1: No Poverty, 2: Zero Hunger, 3: Good Health and Well-Being, 4: Quality Education, 5: Gender Equality, 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, 7: Affordable & Clean Energy, 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, 10: Reduced Inequalities, 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, 13: Climate Action, 14; Life Below Water, 15: Life On Land, 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Communities
Registration Dates:
September 1, 2025 – April 1, 2026
Dates:
September 1, 2025 – April 11, 2026
Project Description:
The Dream Banner Project engages students to intentionally examine their values and dreams for change, then create a Dream Banner, an expression in art and words of a dream to share with the world. Student participants of any age can join the more than 500 school groups in 48 countries who have answered the question “What is your dream to share with the world?”
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Student participants examine dreams of other students from around the world in Dreamline’s online gallery of more that 3,000 student-created Dream Banners, sortable by UN SDG. 30 min – 1 hour
They reflect on their own values and dreams for change with a guided meditation. From this vision, each student creates an original Dream Banner with SDG tag, and shares it locally and globally. 2-5 hours
Expected Outcomes and Products: Each student creates a cloth Dream Banner and they are connected to a Dreamline for public exhibition. Each Banner can be uploaded to Dreamline’s online gallery with a voice recording of the student reading it. Writing and audio recordings can be in any language.
First Wednesday in May Dreamline Online Celebration will invite all participants and teachers to an event dreams from around the world and for students to take the mic to share their dreams. See highlights of last year’s online celebration at https://youtu.be/0YraZn8MIEc?si=EJ0ZC06ruWTy6IKD
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by Rob Madrid | Jul 22, 2025
Day of the Dead – Traditions Around the World
Grade/Age:
Primary Grades (5-11), Middle (12-14)
Subject:
Social Studies, World Language
Global Goals:
4: Quality Education, 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities, 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Communities, 17: Partnership for the Goals
Dates:
September 1, 2025 – November 30, 2025
Project Description:
Project that promotes dialogue between different cultures through collaborative research to share cultural traditions around the world associated with the Day of the Dead.
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In three stages, we propose to carry out an oral and / or documentary research on the traditions of the Day of the Dead in their localities and countries, which allows to promote knowledge and respect for the differences between social, ethnic or linguistic groups and create spaces for interaction, dialogue and exchange between nations, where the cultural manifestations of each place in the world converge with equity and in a plural way. The interactive components of the project promote the collaboration of students from different distant schools, to exchange similar and different educational experiences, and to increase the quality of learning. Students will have the opportunity to discuss these topics with students from other schools around the world: they will comment on what they learn in the various online forums; They will post the learning experiences acquired with their classmates and their teachers, on a collaborative digital wall of the project to share their work and learn about similarities
Expected Outcomes and Products:
Product (s): Dialogue and reflections in forums and other products such as: collage of images from your community, descriptive, comparative and literary texts, crafts, offerings, altars, image gallery and videos; to integrate a collaborative digital Wall.
Project Contributions to Others and the Planet:
Exchange of cultural experiences through technological platforms. Know and value the cultural differences of a region; as well as promoting dialogue between different cultures through a collaborative research strategy to share and understand cultural traditions around the world associated with the Day of the Dead.
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by Rob Madrid | Oct 14, 2024
Subject:
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Creative & Language Arts, Social Studies
Global Goals:
4: Quality Education, 13: Climate Action, 15: Life on Land, 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Project Description:
Ecoselfie consists on taking a selfie in a ecological space. Children will explain why they take that selfie and they will apply the content to different subjects: science, math, social studies, computing. Students will deal with different kind of geographical areas which help them to promote the identification of natural spaces. They are protagonists in action in a natural and unique scene.
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April, August, and October
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Facilitator(s):
Ana Maria Gonzalez
Enid Figueroa
Kristin Brown
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by Rob Madrid | Oct 14, 2024
Our Community, Our Responsibility
Grade/Age:
Primary (5-11), Middle (12-14), Secondary (15-18)
Subject:
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Social Studies
Global Goals:
3: Good Health and Well-Being, 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Registration Dates:
August 1, 2025 – August 30, 2025
Dates:
September 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026
Project Description:
The world is under threat in recent years. There are wars between countries and violent cases in some schools. Those cases seriously affect human safety and community security around us. In order to maintain community sustainability, we need to know more about Sustainable Development Goals in the United Nations. Through taking a tour in our community, making the community map, the acquisition of the knowledge on the problems in the local community can help students secure the community safety and promote urban sustainability in the city in the future. The concept of community safety and security can be applied in our daily life. With this project, a prototype featuring information technology to solve this community safety or security problem needs to be designed and implemented in your community to see how effective it is to solve the problem.
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Facilitator(s):
Yunchai Chen
Margaret Chen, Taiwan
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Task 1- Introduction videos
Task 2- SDGs mindmaps
Task 3- Community Inquiry mission
Task 4- Sustainable community products
Task 5- Project Digital Story Telling
Task 6- Students feedback and reflections
Students will need to create a product to solve community security or safety problems and evaluate the effectiveness of the product or propose a community safety proposal to improve the community safety and security problems.
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by Rob Madrid | Sep 13, 2024
«Местная история» (Local History)
Grade/Age:
Primary (5 – 11), Middle (12 – 14), Secondary (15 – 18)
Subject:
Creative & Language Arts, Social Studies
Global Goals:
4: Quality Education
Registration Dates:
September 1, 2025 – September 15, 2025
Dates:
September 15, 2025 – May 15, 2026
Project Description:
Local history is the history of our native land, the life and way of life of our families, a description of traditions, national cuisine and folklore. During the project, students collect information about the history
of their native land, about the national characteristics and cultural traditions of their people, and then share the results of their work on online forums in the form of essays, presentations, booklets, posters, photographs or drawings.
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1-2 hours per week or 3-4 hours per week
Facilitator(s):
Alfiya Sibagatulina
Maria Gorbul
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Students can make a project exhibition of items received from other countries.
Students can make a video about their work in preparing for packaging, sending it and the reaction when they receive it.
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