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Connecting to Your Curriculum
National Curriculum Standards and Frameworks - listed by country
Art
- Create original artworks using computer graphics software or pencil, paint, crayon, etc.
- Use art to communicate ideas, experiences and stories across languages
- Reflect on the meaning of one's own art work and the works of others
Language Arts/Writing/Reading
- Use the steps within the writing process
- Write for different audiences and purposes: to inform, to express personal ideas
- Compare and contrasting ideas from several sources
- Compare alphabets from around the world
- Research local folklore, fables, legends, tales and family traditions
- Conduct interviews
- Create a family recipe book
- Compile a memory book of grandmother's stories
- Create a family tree
- Create virtual alphabet books and dictionaries
Library Science
- Search for information using printed and electronic media
- Evaluate reliability of information
- Gather ideas from print and human sources - peers around the world
Math
- Classify information into categories
- Use graphic organizers such as a Venn Diagram
- Analyze and interpret data using charts and graphs
- Identify time zones of the other participants
- Compare Celsius and Fahrenheit
Other Languages
- Select different media to help understand language
- Practice a new language
- Use context to construct meaning
- Engage in conversation with students in languages other than the native tongue
- Practice grammar and syntax in a real world situation
- Increase vocabulary
Social Studies
- Locate the cities of the other participants using latitude and longitude
- Share social and cultural traditions and values
- Collect regional recipes
- Make maps
- Learn about the many names for grandmother from online peers
- Compare a time in history to the present
Technology
- Use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity and promote creativity
- Use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts and other audiences
- Practice the use of a word processor
- Use the character map to make characters for other languages
- Access and utilize e-mail
- Locate a web site
- Create and send a sound file to other participants
- Participate in Kidlink IRC
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