The Bullying Project
The Bullying Project allows students worldwide to share feelings and thoughts
about bullying and teasing with peers worldwide and to remove some of the feelings
of loneliness. The students who have developed the project wanted to use the power
of the internet to let their peers know that people dealing with the issues of
bullying and teasing ARE NOT ALONE. That being bullied and teased is NOT THEIR
fault and they can do something about it. Students can contribute their personal
reflections, music, poetry, and films.

City Quest!
Students explore their towns’ history, architecture, and places of interest
and create a Tourism section for the City Quest website. By doing this, they can
promote their community, appreciate international collaboration, and still have
some fun.

Faces of War
This project studies the life experiences of ordinary people in traumatic historical
circumstances. We are creating here an opportunity to reconsider history and to
scale it to the dimensions of individual people rather than politics, ideologies,
or national movements. This project binds generations and cultures through sharing.
A range of cross-curriculum components are available: Global Art, Writing Exchanges,
and Transcripts of Interviews with local veterans of war/strife as well as with
students in conflict situations. This work will be published in the "Faces
of War" magazine and on the WWW: Faces of War.

Age Level: 11-19 Years Old

Curriculum Focus: Language arts, art, social studies

End Products for Students: Stories and art on the web or in the magazine

Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger
Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger is a global education initiative designed to help
youth discuss and understand issues of hunger, malnutrition, poverty and food
security and to stimulate them to participate in activities to create a world
free from hunger. On World Food Day, 16th October - and throughout the year -
students and teachers from all over the world come together to discuss how lessons
plans have been adapted locally and explore ways to raise awareness.

For this project three lessons are provided for primary, intermediate and secondary.
Participants are invited to discuss and share with peers around the world the
issues of hunger and poverty in their local/national context and how the Feeding
Minds Fighting Hunger lessons plans have been used in their classrooms. New ideas,
activities and lessons from around the world will be collected and distributed
each year.

Fight Against Child Labour
This ongoing project continues to bring together young people in research on and
discussion of issues relating to children's rights and the burdens carried by
millions of children through excessive and harmful labor.

Age Level: 10-19 Years Old

Curriculum Focus: Language arts, art, social studies

End Products for Students: Website, Adoption of action agendas to assist in
the abolition of the worst forms of child labor

Language(s) of communication: English and French, but potential participants
should suggest use of any language

Friends and Flags
Friends and Flags is a collaborative learning project that combines authentic
language learning with promoting multicultural awareness. Classrooms that have
registered for the project are placed in learning circles of 6 countries per circle.
Circle partners are encouraged to communicate via email, discussion lists, chat
rooms, message boards and on the project website. Each class in the circle also
prepares a cultural package which includes a student written country book for
the other 5 classes in the circle. These packages are mailed in the post. This
MANY to MANY exchange enables all classes to create authentic and tangible multi-cultural
learning centers.

Helping Hands
Students research online information, conduct interviews and participate in Forums
with their peers from around the world on topics related to kids living on the
streets. After research, interviews and class discussions, students write an essay
about homeless children in the targeted country.

Learning Circles
Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small
number of schools located throughout the world. Each session is 14 weeks. To join
a Learning Circle, you must be a member of iEARN and complete a Learning Circle
placement form two weeks before the beginning of the session. There are three
general Learning Circle themes by which classrooms are grouped. The social studies
theme Places and Perspectives is listed below. Two additional language arts circles
can be found in the Language Arts section of the guide.Places and Perspectives - Places and Perspectives encourages
students to explore regional history, culture, government, and geography by sharing
their knowledge with people from different locations. The goal is to help students
understand how historical events and geographic conditions interact to help shape
their lives and gives them a deeper understanding of themselves, their families
and their communities. Each classroom sponsors a project for a section in the
Places and Perspectives Review. For instance, a classroom might sponsor a section
on local legends, interview native inhabitants or the elderly, describe the historical
attractions of the area, examine local constitutions, or compare weather patterns,
map studies.

Age Level: All. Each Learning Circle Theme is divided into different age levels,
Primary, Middle, and High School

Learning Democracy Through International Collaboration
The project focuses on student rights and duties, tolerance and freedom, civic
responsibilities and engagement. This way secondary school students will be able
to enhance democracy knowledge which hopefully will lead to their active participation
in the community. For eight weeks the participating classes will be posting their
responses to the project questions presented prior to the project start and respond
to the messages posted by their international partners.

National Cuisine and Traditions
Participating students send their partners pictures of themselves with a short
introduction and essay “My Favorite Foods”. Later they exchange recipes
of their foods and try to cook their partners’ dishes, take photographs,
and write their reflections. Students then meet online to discuss their experience
and ask their partners about their cuisine.

Age: 10-17 years old

Dates: Ongoing until 6/30/07 (Check the website for registration deadlines)

Peace Corps: Coverdell World Wise Schools Program
Coverdell World Wise Schools (CWWS) seeks to engage learners in an inquiry about
the themselves and others in order to broaden perspectives, promote cultural awareness,
appreciate global connections, and encourage service. School classrooms can be
paired with a Peace Corp volunteer during the school year to learn together about
the country and community in which the Peace Corps volunteer is working. They
can read from the CyberVolunteer archives, in which they can find rich letters
from Peace Corps volunteers, accompanied by lesson plans. The Water in Africa
project allows teachers to access unit lesson plans on water issues, with photos
and stories about water in communities throughout Africa that have been provided
by Peace Corps volunteers. Online videos about several countries served by the
Peace Corps are available for free viewing.

Postcard Geography
Class-to-class exchange of picture postcards (purchased, computer or handmade).
This project creates opportunity to foster global friendships and can be a gateway
to class-to-class exchanges of all kinds.

Women in My Country
There are three dimensions of the project:
1) Women's Social Status in one's country (A historical study and comparing women's
social status in different types of governments)
2) Politician Women in one's country (A historical Study from ancient times til
now)
3) Introducing outstanding women (scientists, researchers, artists, writers).

The project helps the students gain a deeper knowledge of human beings in general
while they study historical, sociological, and biological differences between
women and men. Thus, they won't categorize people into two opposing groups, or
strong and weak ones. Instead, they consider women and men as different human
types. Doing the project at an international level, we can compare women's social
status in different nations. Studying similarities and differences may result
in deeper understanding.

Category: Interdisciplinary Social Studies

Ages: 12-14, 15-20

Expected outcomes: Doing the project at an international level, we can compare
women's social status in different nations. Studying similarities and differences
between the two genders may result in deeper understanding. Students will identify
the problems women face all over the world and offer new solutions.

The Teddy Bear Project
An international teddy bear exchange using email. After registration teachers
are sent a partner class to work with in this project. The classes send each other
a Teddy Bear or other soft toy by airmail. When it arrives the bear writes home
a diary message by email at least once a week describing its adventures, the places
it has been, as well as the things it has seen and done. Available for Prep/Kinder
to Year 9 the project aims to encourage authentic writing by providing the children
with a real audience. They write their email messages as if they are the visiting
bear. The project provides an opportunity for students to develop understandings
about cultures other than their own.

Age Level: 5-19 Years Old

Curriculum Focus: Language, the Arts, Social Studies, Technology

End Products for Students: Many schools will develop web pages demonstrating
their participation in the project, including the children's art work. These pages
can be linked to form the project home page.

UNICEF Voices of Youth
A project created by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for young
people who want to know more, do more and say more about the world. Through readings
on the website, participating in forums, children and adolescents in different
countries explore, speak out and take action on global issues that are important
to them and lead to creating a world fit for children. On a regular basis, Voices
of Youth also hosts special chats on child rights issues in which adults and decision
makers are occasionally invited to participate.

Voices of Youth is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child that
ensures young people’s rights to participate in decision making processes,
to express opinions freely, and to be equipped with the knowledge and skills they
need to bring about change in their own lives and in their communities.