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| All of the topics below are collections of
resources for classes to work with with the aim of collecting local
information about the lives of young people, their families and
communities in order to exchange the information with partner
classes in other countries. If you've got this far to this page, you are probably familiar with the set up. If not, write to me and ask (keithpkelly@yahoo.co.uk). You can find partners using your own networks, using factworld@yahoogroups.com where there are 3300 teachers around the world interested in work of this kind, using other educational forums like ELTeCS (The English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme). Sample reports and exchange forms for the topics below can be found here. |
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| This topic looks at fossil fuel burning (sulphur production), weather patterns and pollution migration between countries. It's a great topic to get students looking at how 'clean' their country is in terms of fossil fuel burning. | |
| This is one of my favourite topics, purely and simply because although it's a science topic, it's a dream for examining culture. Biodiversity is a global topic but its representation in different parts of the world lies behind much of our culture heritage and values. | |
| If you want to get your class working on simple chemistry, how their lives are drenched in chemistry, get them creating chemical products like cosmetics, shampoos, gels, etc, then this is the topic for you. Get your students to market their products, and 'sell' them to their partners in other countries. This topic is at the heart of the YAC project - more information here. | |
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Domestic Waste (easily adaptable to younger learners) |
I use this topic a lot in teacher training workshops, because it's something anyone and everyone can talk about, rubbish. Imagine 7 bags of rubbish, all from different sources, and asking your students to examine the rubbish, and make predictions about the person / people who made the rubbish. |
| This is a very relevant topic this year, as it's the International Year of Chemistry and one of the initiatives of the celebration is World Water investigations (more information here). Do your students drink from the tap? Do they have clean water at home, what are the visible particles in their drinking water if any? | |
| A new project in a very up-to-date topic of solar energy. | |
| A very common topic in primary and secondary science. | |
| Another popular topic where students look at their lifestyles, look at exercise habits and survey the amount of time they spend exercising to share with partners in other countries. | |
| What plants do your students eat? What plants are used in their cooking, medicine, cleaning, decorating, beauty products? | |
| Variation of What did you Eat? | |
| This topic was written around the time of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the helical structure of DNA, carries many ethical questions in it, and is perfect for debates. | |
| Another favourite of mine. I've done this topic many times and one of my students' reports is published here. Simply put, kids love food, and talking about it and finding out what others eat too! | |
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| This topic is based on the topic above What did you Eat? and is specially designed for younger learners. | |
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Food Glorious Food (a variant of Eating and Drinking) |
A variation of Eating and Drinking |
| A version of the topics above on plants for older learners designed for the young learner classroom. | |
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