by mwuesthoff@digidesigncompany.com | Aug 31, 2023
Learning Circles: Orientation and Registration
Grade/Age:
Primary (5-11), Middle (12-14), Secondary (15-18)
Subject:
Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Mathematics, Technology
Project Description:
Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world. There is a topic of interest for everyone on all grade levels. You can sponsor your own project idea or just participate in someone else’s project. Since you will be guided by facilitators along each step of the process, Learning Circles is an excellent choice for beginners as well as experienced iEARN teachers.
We are offering a 5 week-long project called Hello World: Learning Circles for Elementary, Middle, and High School teachers and students who have never participated in an online project, iEARN, or a Learning Circle. There is also a 5-week beginning project for My Hero called My Hero: First Steps.
To join iEARN Learning Circles, you must complete a placement form at least two weeks before the beginning of the session. Once you complete the placement form you will be placed in a Circle for the next session.
When is the project most active?
Length of time to complete project:
Instructional time required for project:
less than 1 hour per week
Will the project include a synchronous exchange?
Project Phases:
- Participating in teacher training
- Instructions on how to carry out the activities
- Coordination of measurement dates
- Measurement
- Calculations with shared data
- Share Final Results
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by mwuesthoff@digidesigncompany.com | Aug 30, 2023
Subject:
Creative & Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM), Health & Wellbeing
Global Goals:
4: Quality Education; 5: Gender Equality; 15: Life on Land, 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Dates:
September 29, 2025 – June 12, 2026
Registration Dates:
July 1, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Project Description:
Cada grupo elige un tema que puede ser investigado en las tres estaciones del año escolar: otoño, invierno y primavera. En la investigación van observando como va variando durante el desarrollo del año escolar. Las producciones de los participantes dependen del tema elegido y de las tecnologias que deseen usar. Deben realizar como mÃnimo una actividad para cada estacion.
English Translation:
Each group chooses a topic that can be investigated in the three seasons of the school year: fall, winter and spring. In the research they observe how it varies during the school year. The participants’ productions depend on the topic chosen and the technologies they wish to use. They must do at least one activity for each season.
When is the project most active?
Length of time to complete project:
Instructional time required for project:
Less Than 1 Hour Per Week
Facilitator(s):
Margarita Guino Arias, margarita.guino@iearn.cat
Will the project include a synchronous exchange?
Project Phases:
1a actividad: los grupos se presentan utilizando texto y una fotografÃa. Para cada estación del año, realizan, como mÃnimo una actividad para investigar el tema elegido y los presentan en el espacio del proyecto en el formato que elijan en cada escuela. Pueden ser vÃdeos, posters, áudios… Después de cada actividad, cada grupo realiza una pregunta a los demás grupos que deberán responderla en un Padlet para todas las preguntas.
English Translation:
1st activity: the groups present themselves using text and a photograph. For each season of the year, they carry out at least one activity to investigate the chosen theme and present them in the project space in the format of their choice in each school. They can be videos, posters, audios… After each activity, each group asks a question to the other groups who must answer it in a Padlet for all the questions.
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by mwuesthoff@digidesigncompany.com | Aug 30, 2023
Grade/Age:
Primary (5-11), Middle (12-14), Secondary (15-18)
Subject:
Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)
Global Goals:
4. Quality Education, 16: Peace and Justice, Strong Institutions
Dates:
August 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026
Registration Dates:
August 1, 2025 – March 1, 2026
Project Description:
Students will share cultures through a visiting soft toy. Through the exchange of a bear or other soft toy, students create digital or hard copy journal entries to share with
their partner class. The students can write these messages as if they are the visiting bear describing its experiences in the new culture or as the host. Some of the experiences can include lessons learned in school, a visit home with each student, social events, meals and class activities. The work is shared on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, etc.) with the partner class. Throughout the school year, students will find out what their bear is doing in the partner country and learn about its culture.
When is the project most active?
Length of time to complete project:
2-3 Months or all school year
Instructional time required for project:
less than 1 hour per week
Will the project include a synchronous exchange?
Project Phases:
- Phase 1: mail teddy bears/soft toy ambassador to partner countries.
Phase 2: share digital or hard copy entries about the ambassador’s adventures in host country. Can include a synchronous virtual exchange.
Phase 3: return soft toys/ambassadors to original countries (visit is over).
Where it is not feasible, the ambassador can opt to stay in host country as immigrant (can teach to that).
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by mwuesthoff@digidesigncompany.com | Aug 30, 2023
Stick: Measuring the Circumference of the Earth
Language:
English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, French
Grade/Age:
Primary (5-11), Middle (12-14), Secondary (15-18)
Subject:
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)
Global Goals:
4: Quality Education; 10: Reduced Inequalities
Dates:
September 1, 2025 – May 15, 2026
Registration Dates:
July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026
Project Description:
The main objective of this project is to measure the perimeter of the Earth, similarly to the one used by Eratostenes more than two thousand two hundred years ago. For this, each group of students and their teachers will measure the height and shadow of a rod during the solar midday. Each school will share the values of your measurements by completing the calculation form created on Google.
El objetivo principal de este proyecto es medir el permetro de la Tierra, de manera similar a la que utiliz Eratstenes hace ms de dos mil doscientos aos. Para ello, cada grupo de alumnos y sus docentes medirn la altura y sombra de una vara durante el medioda solar. Cada escuela compartir los valores de sus mediciones mediante el completado de la planilla de clculo creada en Google.
When is the project most active?
Length of time to complete project:
Instructional time required for project:
less than 1 hour per week
Will the project include a synchronous exchange?
Project Phases:
Presentation, technical explanation, realization, data sharing
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by mwuesthoff@digidesigncompany.com | Aug 29, 2023
Grade/Age:
Primary (5-11), Middle (12-14)
Global Goals:
3: Good Health and Well-Being
Project Description:
This project enables students to develop a healthy lifestyle to keep their mind and body performing at their best. It enables students to develop a healthy life style by adapting good eating habits and exercise to help keep their mind and body performing at their best. Students will learn what a healthy diet is and explore relationship between diet and health. They will examine their eating habits to determine if they are getting the right foods to stay healthy. It is important for them to learn that a healthy body is not just about being fit for which food and exercise is a part, they need to develop a healthy mental and spiritual attitude for their physical well being.
When is the project most active?
Length of time to complete project:
Instructional time required for project:
less than 1 hour per week
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