by Rob Madrid | Oct 15, 2024
CIVICS: Youth Volunteerism and Service
Subject:
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM), Social Studies, Creative & Language Arts
Global Goals:
1: No Poverty; 2: Zero Hunger; 3: Good Health and Well-Being; 4: Quality Education; 5: Gender Equity; 6: Clean Water and Sanitation; 7: Affordable and Clean Energy 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, 13: Climate Action; 14: Life Below Water; 15: Life On Land
Project Description:
The CIVICS project serves as a platform for young people to be actively involved in their communities. Groups of students will be guided to work around Sustainable Development Goals focusing on issues like environment, eradication of poverty, women’s education, and education and literacy.
Students will plan action projects and respond to some of these issues through a process of reflection, dialogue and action.
When is the project most active?
December to January, April to June
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by Rob Madrid | Sep 10, 2024
Language:
English, Spanish, Catalan
Grade/Age:
Primary (5-11), Middle (12-14), Secondary (15-18)
Subject:
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, 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 and Clean Energy, 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, 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 Institutions, 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Dates:
September 2024 – March 2025
Project Description:
Los estudiantes elaboran codigos QR en un mural colectivo en linea, compartiendo mensajes significativos a partir del topico “Ideas para mejorar el mundo”. URL: http://qrweek.iearn.cat
To incorporate QR codes made by students in a collective online mural, sharing meaningful messages to the topic: “Ideas to improve the world”.
We want to take a more social approach to the project, focusing on the little things that are at our disposal to improve our environment. Therefore, with the topic “Ideas to improve the world,” we invite students to send us their message contributions to improve their immediate environment.
“Think globally, act locally”
It’s important that the content is meaningful to the student or group of students, and we advise the authors to be themselves
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by mwuesthoff@digidesigncompany.com | Sep 11, 2023
Grade/Age:
Middle (12-14), Secondary (15-18)
Subject:
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
Global Goals:
4: Quality Education, 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
Dates:
September 2024 – May 2025
Project Description:
This project includes several collaborative activities throughout the school year to explore global issues, using a variety of educational tools. These include population growth, climate change, measuring our world, and plastic pollution. Every project has an open-ended component and gives/creates an opportunity to develop STEAM subject skills to use them in everyday life. Schools may do either, or both!
STEAM-based education creates opportunities for self-learning, develops lifelong learning tools, enhances 21- century skills, and stimulates students’ motivation towards creativity, innovation and positive global citizenship.
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by mwuesthoff@digidesigncompany.com | Aug 31, 2023
IMAGZ Making Myself Heard
Grade/Age:
Primary (5-11), Middle (12-14), Secondary (15-18)
Subject:
Creative & Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)
Global Goals:
3: Good Health and Well-Being, 4: Quality Education, 5: Gender Equality, 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, 10: Reduced Inequalities, 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, 13: Climate Action, 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Dates:
September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2025
Project Description:
Want to know your peers from other countries, understand them better and wish to vent out your feelings, well, this is the project that will help you do all that. The project will be about creating a digital magazine featuring the works of students from different schools across the globe. In the process, you will make lifelong friends and make the world a better place to live in.
When is the project most active?
October-November/February-March
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Instructional time required for project:
less than 1 hour per week
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by mwuesthoff@digidesigncompany.com | Aug 30, 2023
Water is Life: Team Green International
Grade/Age:
Primary (5-11), Middle (12-14), Secondary (15-18)
Subject:
Social Studies, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)
Global Goals:
6: Clean Water and Sanitation; 14: Life Below Water
Dates:
September 2024 – June 2025
Facilitator(s):
Bob Carter, Greg Reiva, Fiore Morgan, Rob King, Virginia King
Project Description:
The iEARN Water is Life project will bring students into active research and action-oriented collaboration concerning water as the vital essence of life.Taking the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 6 and 14 as their inspiration and their focus, students will work within their school and with schools across the globe to study, research and share as they develop an understanding of the Goals and cooperatively develop ideas and strategies to play their part in the meeting of the Goals. Students will be encouraged and supported in the development of their learning, their cooperation with their classmates and students in schools around the globe and in turning their research into ideas they can take to the community: local, national and global.The primary goal of the Water is Life Project is the development, implementation and reporting on a Community Action Plan Team Green International is a student-led organization that advocates making the world a better place by raising awareness and trying to solve environmental issues. We believe that everyone can make a difference by doing their part to care for our Earth.
When is the project most active?
Active throughout the project.
Length of time to complete project:
The time taken to complete the project depends on the number of activities you undertake.
Instructional time required for project:
less than 1 hour per week to 1-2 hours per week
Facilitator country:
Australia, France, United States
Project Phases:
- Research, develop and carry out a community action plan concerning water
- Research and present a Green Infrastructure Plan of Action to local authorities.
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