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'A Week in the Life...'

A Flat Classroom®Project for students of age 8-10

Application information. For inquiries please use [email protected]
'A Week in the Life...' New Teacher Guide

NEWS!! APPLICATIONS for the September-December 2013 'A Week in the Life...' Project will be open until September 15.

Inquiries: [email protected]

TWO projects will be run each year.
Here are basic outlines for each of the two projects.

AWL 01 - March-June
  • Application Deadline: February 15
  • Online Teacher Information Meeting: before March 1
  • Classroom and Student Handshake: March 1-15
  • Team Formation and Project Discussions:March 15-April 15
  • Multimedia Collection and Sharing: April 15-30
  • Media Collation and Product Development: May 1-15
  • Celebration, Summits and Reflections: May 15-June 1

AWL 02 - September-December
  • Application Deadline: September 1
  • Online Teacher Information Meeting: before September 15
  • Classroom and Student Handshake: September 15-30
  • Team Formation and Project Discussions: October 1-30
  • Multimedia Collection and Sharing: November 1-15
  • Media Collation and Product Development:November 15-30
  • Celebration, Summits and Reflections: November 30-December 15

PROJECT DETAILS
'A Week in the Life...' is a Flat Classroom® Project for Elementary School students of approximately ages 8-10. The curriculum focus is Interdisciplinary, how we live, how we communicate, cultural understanding and awareness. The aim of the project is to join Elementary School classrooms globally with a view to exploring what life is like in each country through discussion, sharing and collecting multimedia to create final products together.

Essential Questions Which Will Be Answered:
  1. What are the similarities and differences among children around the world?
  2. How can we connect with each other through our commonalities?
  3. How does your geography where you live impact your topic?

Students in mixed global classroom teams will:
1. Do some research on a week in the life of children in their school around these topics:
  • School time
  • Languages & Clothing
  • Housing & Transportation
  • Leisure time
  • Food & Celebrations
  • Environment
2. Complete a team project demonstrating found information to the rest of the group.
3. Upload their multimedia to the project wiki.
4. View all the group projects and compare and contrast the results.

Tools used:
  • Edmodo
  • Wikispaces
  • Voicethread
  • Other multimedia online tools for sharing and creating artifacts

AWL Educators Blog
- Review the experience of being in the 'A Week in the Life...' Project through participant blog posts.

Past and current projects:
  • A Week in the Life 12-2
  • A Week in the Life 12-1
  • A Week in the Life 2011-2
  • A Week in the Life 2011-1
  • A Week in the Life 2010 (pilot project)