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Terms
- Principles and Facts
Students will learn
how to introduce
an initiative to the local community .
They
will learn to play an effective
role within their
community and try to change
their attitudes and that of
others as to fulfill their good
citizenship
Developing
the living techniques.
Students
learn how to evaluate
different sources of information and
raise their knowledge and
their sense of
responsibility.
Curriculum Areas
English - Social Studies - Technology
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Using
various research techniques to tackle local and global issues.
Explore
and analyze the
characters characterizes .
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Students
will enhance learning and communication
skills by: inquiring, interviewing, compiling, giving constructive
feedback, justifying and presenting
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Taking
pride in one's own culture
Feeling of belonging to the local
and global community
Increased motivation to read and learn about the local and global
issues.
Increased motivation to write for an audience
Taking pride to contribute to solving global issues.
Discovering the joy of being an author
Sense of caring and developing respect towards the point of view of
others thus enhancing tolerance and understanding
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Students
will enhance their
social
skills
by working
in
groups, brainstorming
and
writing collective essays
and
stories
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Investigate,
select and justify their choice
of the issue.
Read, comment and give constructive
feedback to their peers
Write short notes to
communicate why
they selected this issue.
Use the medium of art to
illustrate this
issue.
Communicate with other
students in iEARN
community to share this issue.
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Brainstorming
Group work
Individual work
Writing process
photographing
Peer editing
Reviewing
Final editing
Submissions to the forums
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Involve
students in the evaluation process and use the following rubric to
have them assess their work. Ask
them if in each of the following section, they have…
Clearly stated the question of the issue
Explained clearly the meaning of heroes Expressed clearly why they
selected this issue and their interest in it?
Show the relevance of this issue in
their daily life experience?
Employed an appropriate level of language? (Specific nouns and verbs)
Minimum or no grammar, punctuation and spelling mistakes
Shown positive attitude and contributed meaningfully to all group
activities
Respected time constraints and delivered their work on time
This project is added to their writing portfolio
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