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Step Out and Innovate

On World Creativity and Innovation Day, the world is invited to embrace the idea that innovation is essential for harnessing the economic potential of nations. Innovation, creativity and mass entrepreneurship can provide new momentum towards achieving the Sustainable Sustainble Goals (SDGs). It can harness economic growth and job creation, while expanding opportunities for everyone, including women and youth. It can provide solutions to some of the most pressing problems such as poverty eradication and the elimination of hunger. Human creativity and innovation, at both the individual and group levels, have become the true wealth of nations in the twenty-first century.

https://www.un.org/en/observances/creativity-and-innovation-day 



WORLD CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION DAY TIMELINE

Creativity drives our ideas and emotions, as well as our ability to connect, to question and to be understood. But culture and creativity are a lot more than an expression of our identities, they are livelihoods, careers, and economic opportunities for millions of people around the world, especially women, youth, and vulnerable groups. The creative economy has the power to drive sustainable development.

https://www.un.org/en/observances/creativity-and-innovation-day 

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Eduardo Kobra

Lets step back in time an explore an extraordinary example of creativity and innovation of artist Eduardo Kobra and the mural he created for the Rio Olympics in 2016. He created 30,000 square foot (2787 square meters) wall mural. Titled Las Etnias (The Ethnicities), stands a staggering 50 feet (15 meters) tall and can be found in Rio’s port district. The graffiti drawing features five faces from five different continents that represent both the five Olympic rings as well as the cultural diversity of the games. Kobra, 40, from Sao Paulo, worked on the piece for two months, and during that time, the street artist used 100 gallons of white paint, 400 gallons of colored paint, and 3,500 cans of spray paint. If confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, Kobra’s beautiful artwork will be the world’s largest mural completed by a single man.

https://www.boredpanda.com/world-largest-mural-street-art-las-etnias-the-ethnicities-eduardo-kobra-rio-olympics-brazil/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

  1. Look closely and explain some of the things that catch your eye in the mural?
  2. Explain the use of colour? What do you think the colours are representing?
  3. What message do you think the artist is trying to get people to think about?
  4. If you could create a 6th Indigenous person from a continent in the world to add to the mural. Who would it be and why? Design and draw the 6th part to the mural.

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Here is my thinking – Bronwyn Joyce The Global Write Creator

Let's Write

Prompt 1

100 Word Challenge

Look closely! Use the picture and write a piece in just 100 words. You can write a story, a description or even a persuasive piece. Be creative and see what magic you can produce in just 100 words. Upload your writing to The Global Write Wakelet Gallery. Be Creative!

Prompt 2

After watching the video clip and using the #IamCreative develop and create your own video to promote creativity and innovation as a way of changing the world. If you can’t make a video create a digital poster using Canva or Buncee or just design your own personalised poster using you own expressive way to present you message.

https://wciw.org/

Prompt 3

Our final prompt comes from https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-creativity-and-innovation-day/ who have shared the following things that you can do to be innovative and creative. We would love to see your ideas on The Global Write Wakelet. Don’t forget to share with us. 

 

Share Innovative Ideas 

Got an idea for your local town or municipality? Send the suggestion to them and let them know how it could benefit others in the community.

Got a new plan for your own personal life? Set it in motion and see where that creativity can go.

Visit a New Culture 

Sometimes, innovation and creativity come from seeing something from across the world that could be done better in our little corner. Learning about the way different people groups and cultures across the globe do things can help not only foster respect for others but also generate incredible ideas. Whether just “visiting” by watching a documentary or actually going to a new place, this will help to promote creativity and innovation.

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ACCELERATING CHANGE

Marie, 7, draws water from a standpipe built with the support of UNICEF in the Buhene district of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. The district was the most affected by the volcanic eruption of May, 2021; almost half of the neighborhood was destroyed.

PHOTO:Gwenn Dubourthoumieu/UNICEF

Accelerating Change

World Water Day 2023 is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis.

Dysfunction throughout the water cycle undermines progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, and disasters to peace.

In 2015, the world committed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 as part of the 2030 Agenda – the promise that everyone would have safely managed water and sanitation by 2030.

Right now, we are seriously off-track.

Billions of people and countless schools, businesses, healthcare centers, farms, and factories are being held back because their human rights to water and sanitation still need to be fulfilled.

There is an urgent need to accelerate change – to go beyond ‘business as usual.’

The latest data show that governments must work on average four times faster to meet SDG 6 on time, but this is not a situation that any single actor or group can solve.

Water affects everyone, so we need everyone to take action.

https://www.un.org/en/observances/water-day

The global campaign Be the change encourages people to take action in their lives to change how they use, consume and manage water. These promises from individuals and communities will contribute to the Water Action Agenda alongside larger commitments from governments, companies, organizations, institutions, and coalitions.

 

Choose your action

https://www.unwater.org/bethechange/

Did you know?

  • 1.4 million people die annually and 74 million will have their lives shortened by diseases related to poor water, sanitation and hygiene. (WHO 2022)
  • Today, 1 in 4 people – 2 billion people worldwide – lack safe drinking water. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)
  • Almost half of the global population – 3.6 billion people – lack safe sanitation. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)
  • Globally, 44 per cent of household wastewater is not safely treated. (UN-Water 2021)
  • Global water demand (in water withdrawals) is projected to increase by 55 per cent by 2050. (OECD 2012)

https://www.un.org/en/observances/water-day 

Plant The Seed - Unpack Your Thinking

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines

Beauty and Truth

Beauty and Truth 

A routine for exploring the complex interaction between beauty and truth.

 

  • Watch the video of the World Water Day 2023 animation starring the hummingbird!
  • Can you find beauty in this story? 
  • Can you find truth in this story? 
  • How might beauty reveal truth?
  • How might beauty conceal truth?

The star of the two-minute animated film for #WorldWaterDay 2023 is the hummingbird. In the ancient tale, the hummingbird is faced with a great fire and, rather than stand and stare, decides to act – trying to put the fire out one drop at a time. The other animals laugh, but she replies, “I’m doing what I can.” 

 

The short film tells the story of the global water and sanitation crisis as if the world were a community of just 100 people.

 

In that scenario, 25 people would have to collect unsafe water from a stream or pond, often far away, or queue for hours and pay a high price to a vendor. 22 people would either have no choice but to go to the toilet in the streets, bushes or fields, or to use unhygienic and dysfunctional latrines. 

 

Half the local wetlands would have disappeared in recent decades and nearby agriculture and industry would use up 80 per cent of all the available water.

 

In the face of this global water and sanitation crisis, the hummingbird’s message is to do something, however small. And when more and more of us are like the hummingbird, our individual actions amount to something much bigger, helping to accelerate change.

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Here is my Beauty is Truth thinking – Bronwyn Joyce The Global Write Creator

Let's Write

Prompt 1

100 Word Challenge

Look closely! Use the picture and write a piece in just 100 words. You can write a story, a description or even a persuasive piece. Upload your writing to The Global Write Wakelet Gallery. Be Creative!

Prompt 2

HELP CREATE A GLOBAL BOUQUET OF HUMMINGBIRDS 

 

Our second prompt promotes the opportunity to join with worldwater.org as they share that you and your class can now participate in the creation of a bouquet of hummingbirds, a colourful installation of origami birds created by students around the world.
The global virtual installation aims to deepen the understanding on water challenges we are facing, and that we all – by taking small actions – can play our part to help solving them. 

Here are the instructions below. 

 

Prompt 3

Worldwaterday.org are conducting a photo contest this year. Our final prompt is not to join the contest but to explore the amazing water photos that have been taken all over the world. Your prompt is to watch the promotion video and explore the photos

Create your own promotional video titled ‘Accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis’. Use https://animoto.com/ to create your video and make sure you share it with us on The Global Write Wakelet Gallery.

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Radio and Peace

Radio is uniquely positioned to bring communities together and foster positive dialogue for change. Irene Lasu is a radio presenter for the UN Mission in South Sudan’s Radio Miraya.

PHOTO:UN Photo/Isaac Alebe Avoro

Radio and Peace

On World Radio Day, UNESCO highlights independent radio as a pillar for conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

An armed conflict between countries or groups within a country may also translate into a conflict of media narratives. The narrative can either increase tensions or maintain conditions for peace. 

In reporting and informing the general public, radio stations shape public opinion and frame a narrative that can influence domestic and international situations and decision-making processes.

Increasing radio’s journalistic standards and capacity should be considered as an investment in peace.

https://www.un.org/en/observances/radio-day

“On this World Day we celebrate radio’s power to nurture and build peace.”

Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO

World Radio Day 2023 - Message from Tawfik Jelassi, UNESCO

Plant The Seed - Unpack Your Thinking

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World Radio Day 2023: Audios

On the occasion of World Radio Day, UNESCO releases a number of historic audio files that can be used free of charge and without copyright restriction in planning World Radio Day broadcasts and events. 

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-radio/audios

Reporter’s Notebook

A routine for separating fact and feeling.

Choose an audio story and listen to the audio. Also listen to ‘Media Uncovered’ 

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-radio/audios

  1. Choose your story and listen to it.
  2. Identify a situation, story, or dilemma for discussion. 
  3. Name the facts and events of the situation. (What evidence confirms these?)
  4. Identify the thoughts and feelings of the characters/participants in the situation. (What evidence confirms these?)
  5. Make your best judgment about the situation, based on this information.

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Here is my Reporters Notebook thinking – Bronwyn Joyce The Global Write Creator

Let's Write

Prompt 1

100 Word Challenge

Look closely! Use the picture and write a piece in just 100 words. You can write a story, a description or even a persuasive piece. Upload your writing to The Global Write Wakelet Gallery. Be Creative!

Miraya Radio, South Sudan, UN Peacekeeping Mission

UN Photo: Isaac Billy

Prompt 2

13 Ways to Celebrate World Radio Day

Reseach ways you can celebrate World Radio Day. Find out how radio is used across the world to promote peace. 

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-radio/13ideas 

 

Make a digital presentation to share your findings. You could make a video, buncee, or a digital poster. We look forward to seeing what you create when you share it on The Global Write Wakelet. 

Prompt 3

Watch the video and think about the power of radio across the world. Go to https://vocaroo.com/ and record an audio promoting World Radio Day. Research and draft your speech before recording it. Speak clearly and your audio should be at least one minute long. Make sure you share your audio in The Global Write Wakelet. 

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What Are Pulses?

Cereals, beans, sorghum and other seeds at a stall in a market where conversation agriculture goods are sold in Meru, Kenya. Conservation agriculture aims to achieve sustainable and profitable agriculture and improved livelihoods of farmers.

PHOTO:FAO/Luis Tato

What are pulses?

Pulses, also known as legumes, are the edible seeds of leguminous plants cultivated for food. Dried beans, lentils and peas are the most commonly known and consumed types of pulses.

Staples dishes and cuisines from across the world feature pulses, from hummus in the Mediterranean (chick peas), to a traditional full English breakfast (baked navy beans) to Indian dal (peas or lentils).

Pulses do not include crops that are harvested green (e.g. green peas, green beans)—these are classified as vegetable crops. Also excluded are those crops used mainly for oil extraction (e.g. soybean and groundnuts) and leguminous crops that are used exclusively for sowing purposes (e.g. seeds of clover and alfalfa).

https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-pulses-day 

 

Did you know?

  • Intercropping with pulses increases farm biodiversity and creates a more diverse landscape for animals and insects
  • The nitrogen-fixing properties of pulses can improve soil fertility, which improves and extends the productivity of farmland
  • Pulses are highly water efficient: for producing 1 kg of lentils needs 1250 liters, while 1 kg of beef requires 13,000 liters.

Plant The Seed - Unpack Your Thinking

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines 

I Used to Think… Now I think…

 

This week we will engage with the I Used to Think… Now I think…routine. This routine helps students to reflect on their thinking about a topic or issue and explore how and why their thinking has changed. It helps consolidate new learning

The Power of Pulses

#GlobalGoals #SDGs #Agenda2030

Watch this video and think about what a pulse is. As you reflect record everything you thought about pulses and what they might be. Then, after watching the video what do you now know?

Record your thoughts in your Writers Notebook.

Modelled Thinking

Here is my I used to think… Now I think….– Bronwyn Joyce The Global Write Creator

Let's Write

Prompt 1

100 Word Challenge

Look closely! Use the picture and write a piece in just 100 words. You can write a story, a description or even a persuasive piece. Upload your writing to The Global Write Wakelet Gallery. Be Creative!

Prompt 2

Pulses are not just for adults…

Watch the video and read the article and think about how you could persuade children to eat pulses and like it. Write a persuasive speech to read at a school assembly or publish in a school newsletter.

Prompt 3

Nature’s nutritious seeds: 10 reasons why you should opt for pulses 

Find out why you should include pulses in your diet?

https://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1176990/

After finding out all about how nutritious pulses are, research recipes that include pulses. Record the recipe and share it to The Global Write Wakelet. We would even love you to cook the recipe with your family or at school and share it with us on the Wakelet. 

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The Global Write Advent Calendar Week 1

24 Different Activities to Connect with the SDGS this Festive Season.
Week 1 – December 1st to December 7th

Dec 1st : A Simple Act Of Kindness

Today is the first day of The Global Write Advent Calendar and we are featuring UN Global Goal 1 – No Poverty.

 

Poverty is something we own together as a community. More importantly, there are things we can do, together, to solve it.

 

So today, share in a message a simple act of kindness that you could do, to help someone living in poverty this Christmas, Hanukkah & Kwanzaa season. Think beyond money and the giving of materialistic items. Happiness is helping others.

Share Your Message Here

Attachments 

https://www.coffeecupsandcrayons.com/100-acts-kindness-kids/

 

Dec 2nd : What Do You Eat In A Week?

What do you eat in a week?

 

Create a digital poster or slideshow about foods you eat in your country for a week.

First click here 25 Kids From Around The World Photographed With What They Eat In One Week and get ideas about what your week looks like.

 

In your video response reflect on kids around the world and tell us how can we stop food wastage and end world hunger.

Share Your Reflection Here

Dec 3rd : How Can We Be Healthy?

Festive seasons can be a time when people eat a lot, relax on holidays and push their bodies to the limits.

 

Today on Day 3, we will reflect on Global Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being.

 

We would simply like you to answer the following question – How can you be healthy during festive seasons? Make a poster, create a billboard and share you answers with us with some handy hints this festive season.

Share Your Poster Here

Dec 4th : Inspire To Dream

Indigenous students in Australia have shared their dreams for the future with us in the video.

 

What do you inspire to dream about this festive season?

 

Students, it may be a career you are striving to take on. Teachers, it may be a new role you wish you could try or even a career change that you dream about. Education is the catapult for all our futures.

 

Lets join together and inspire to dream. Leave your message here on Day 4 of The Global Write Advent Calendar.

Leave Your Message Here

Dec 5th : Equality For All

On Day 5, the Global Write team would like you to reflect on Amanda (14) a girl who believes it is unfair for women to be paid less for the same work as her male colleagues. She disagrees with the notion that being born a girl is a limitation in society rather than an incredible resource.

 

She will continue to fight gender stereotypes integrated into societal structures and demand equality between the sexes.

 

In your video today, we would like you to share with us a positive female role model in your community or life, someone who you look up to. Make sure you explain what makes them a role model to you.

Share Your Role Model Here

Dec 6th : Being a Global Citizen

This festive season how can we promote clean water and sanitation?

 

So many children are dying from the lack of clean drinking and sanitary diseases. Let’s reflect on what we can do better – like saving water, following water restrictions etc.

 

Create a handmade or digital poster as part of your promotion. Use the video to generate facts for your work. Add some festive symbols and make sure when you share your video you share the glObal ‘O’ citizen symbol like at the end of the video.

Share Your Poster Here

DEC 7th : Eco-Friendly Light Display

Decorating houses, trees and shop windows is a tradition for many festive celebrations.

 

On Day 7, the Global Write team would like you to design your own eco friendly light display. Create a design or video a house or tree that is decorated with sustainable lighting and then explain how this lighting display uses affordable and clean energy.

 

Just a hint things that use solar power use renewable energy but I wonder how this may work at night. We can’t wait to see your designs and hear your explanations.

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SDG Book Club

A few years ago every month, the SDG Book Club used books as a tool to encourage children ages 6-12 to interact with the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a curated reading list of books from around the world related to each of the 17 SDGs in all six official UN languages—Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.

 

This week at The Global Write we are going to explore some of the books and share the book club reading list for schools, teachers and students to use as a tool for learning. 



Welcome to the SDG Book Club Blog where the United Nations feature stories from book clubs from around the world!

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdgbookclub/blog/

 

Plant The Seed - Unpack Your Thinking

Listen to the story of Eugine Clark. In your Writer’s Notebook this week unpack the a story using a story map. Here is a template you could use or just set up your page in a way that shows your thinking about the book.

Story Map PDF

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Here is my Story Map – Bronwyn Joyce The Global Write Creator

Let's Write

Prompt 1

100 Word Challenge

Listen to the story of Malala Yousafzai. In 100 words write a description or creative piece to share who Malala is. Malala is an inspiration to the whole world make her proud by writing a piece that can be shared with the world.

Prompt 2

Explore what it must be like to be a refugee. Write a letter to your government and share your thoughts about how you felt when you found out through the book that in Spring 2016, 3000 unaccompanied child refugees were refused sanctuary. Draw a chair just like the one in the story. Post your chair to The Global Write Wakelet. 

 Th beautiful illustration of a sad empty chair prompted a Twitter campaign #3000chairs where illustrators, artists and ANYONE who wanted to join in was invited to draw/paint/sketch an empty chair and post it on Twitter using #3000chairs. Use the hashtag to see the hundreds that have already been posted – and look out on the Guardian children’s books site for a gallery of empty chair.

Prompt 3

Research who is Greta Thunberg. Create a digital or paper version poster about Greta and the work she has done to promote the need for climate change. Be sure to promote the meed to achieve SDG 13 by the year 2030. Post your poster to The Global Write Wakelet.

Explore the other SDG Book Club Books, click on the image and go to the blog page.

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Groundwater and sanitation – making the invisible

Seventy-eight-year-old Maloncho Begum received a Disabled Friendly Latrine from GUK and UNICEF under the WASH & Child Protection-Emergency Flood Response Project. Noyon, her daughter, helps her to use the latrine facilities (Bangladesh, 2021).

PHOTO:Bashir Ahmed Sujan.

Groundwater and sanitation – making the invisible

 

World Toilet Day focuses on the impact of the sanitation crisis on groundwater.

This observance, held annually since 2013, celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 3.6 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: sanitation and water for all by 2030.

The campaign ‘Making the invisible visible’ explores how inadequate sanitation systems spread human waste into rivers, lakes and soil, polluting underground water resources.

However, this problem seems to be invisible. Invisible because it happens underground. Invisible because it happens in the poorest and most marginalized communities.

https://www.un.org/en/observances/toilet-day 

Key messages you should know on World Toilet Day

  1. Safe sanitation protects groundwater. Toilets that are properly sited and connected to safely managed sanitation systems, collect, treat and dispose of human waste, and help prevent human waste from spreading into groundwater.
  2. Sanitation must withstand climate change. Toilets and sanitation systems must be built or adapted to cope with extreme weather events, so that services always function and groundwater is protected.
  3. Sanitation action is urgent. We are seriously off track to ensure safe toilets for all by 2030. With only eight years left, the world needs to work four times faster to meet our promise.

Plant The Seed - Unpack Your Thinking

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines

Unveiling Stories

This week we will engage with the Unveiling Stories routine. A routine for revealing multiple layers of meaning.

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/unveiling-stories 

RAINBOW SCHOOL TOILET

https://www.worldtoilet.org/rainbow-school-toilet/ 

Read the brief article about the Rainbow School Project conducted in China. 

What’s the story?

 What is the human story? 

What is the world story? 

What is the new story? 

What is the untold story?

Modelled Thinking

Here is my Unveiling Stories – Bronwyn Joyce The Global Write Creator

Let's Write

Prompt 1

100 Word Challenge

Look closely! Use the picture and write a piece in just 100 words. You can write a story, a description or even a persuasive piece. Upload your writing to The Global Write Wakelet Gallery. Be Creative!

Prompt 2

Who is Rohit Fenn?

Create an informative poster, google slideshow or informative writing piece explained who Rohit Fenn is and what he invented. Here is some information to get you started.

Rohit Fenn PDF

Prompt 3

SDG # 6 Clean Water and Sanitation

What do you know about Clean Water and Sanitation SDG Goal #6?

What do you understand are the problems with clean water and sanitation…

  1. in the world
  2. in your country and
  3. in your community?

How are you doing your part to help?

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Science, Peace and Development

Celebrated every 10 November, World Science Day for Peace and Development highlights the important role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues. It also underlines the importance and relevance of science in our daily lives.

By linking science more closely with society, World Science Day for Peace and Development aims to ensure that citizens are kept informed of developments in science. It also underscores the role scientists play in broadening our understanding of the remarkable, fragile planet we call home and in making our societies more sustainable.

 

“As no one country can achieve sustainable development alone, international scientific cooperation contributes, not only to scientific knowledge but also to building peace.” – UNESCO

 

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/science-peace-development

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

Margaret Mead

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines

See, Wonder, Connect x2 

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION A routine for looking closely and making connections to deepen understanding.

Explore an image, object, or work of art. 

 

  1. Look closely: What do you notice? Make many observations. 
  2. What questions do you have? What do you wonder about? 
  3. How could this connect to subjects you study in school? 
  4. How could this connect to your personal interests or hobbies?

 

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/see-wonder-connect-x2 

See, Wonder, Connect x2 Examples

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Here is my see, wonder, connect x2 – Bronwyn Joyce The Global Write Creator

Let's Write

Prompt 1

100 Word Challenge

I know our theme this week is Science but I found the most amazing tool for students to choose their own writing prompts that I had to make it this weeks 100 Word Challenge. Spin the wheel and start writing, you have a 100 words to write a creative piece of writing. Be sure to share your writing with The Global Write Team at our Wakelet Gallery. 

https://wordwall.net/resource/418403/writing-prompts 

Prompt 2

Watch the video and make a decision. Do you believe the science of technology is taking over the world and human jobs. Write a persuasive essay to explain your thinking about whether computers are increasingly encroaching on domains that were previously considered exclusively human.

Prompt 3

Watch the video about Hannah Herbst founder of Tiburon Technologies. Hannah was curious about making a difference in the lives of people she cared about the people in the world. Identify a problem in your school or community that you feel you could make a change of difference. Tell us how you could be a changemaker and make a difference in the world. 

 

https://videos.discoveryeducation.com/watch/wwru26DNp99Z4T9qPVDiTU?%22%20\

Prompt 4

Christine Dixon & STEAM teammate, Marla Rosenthal designed this choice board for their district’s ELA Unit 8 Benchmark Earth Science curriculum.  They made them into choice boards because they knew students gravitate towards certain innovation activities over others.

Go to the link below to access choice boards for early years learners and older learners. 

We have showcased their Grade 5 Choice Board for people to view and use.

https://makedesigninnovate.weebly.com/bloglesson-share/earth-science-innovation-choice-boards

Earth Science Innovation Choice Board 

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Day of the Dead – Dia de los Muertos

Dia de los Muertos

Top 10 things to know about the Day of the Dead

Día de los Muertos is celebrated across Mexico with skulls, skeletons, and graveside visits—but what does this beloved holiday really represent?

1. The holiday dates back thousands of years.

2. It has been recognized by UNESCO.

3. Altars are an important tradition…

4. …and so are literary calaveras…

5. …especially the calavera Catrina.

 

6. Families bring food to the dead.

7. People dress in costumes.

8. Streets are decorated in papel picado.

9. Mexico City hosts an iconic parade.

10. Other communities celebrate in unique ways.

Countless communities in Mexico celebrate Day of the Dead, but styles and customs differ by region, depending on the region’s predominant pre-Hispanic culture. 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/top-ten-day-of-dead-mexico

Day of the Dead is a holiday to remember loved ones by sharing a meal with them as one would when they were alive.

https://dayofthedead.holiday/

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Looking: 10 x 2 Visual Thinking Strategy

This week our thinking routines resource comes from the Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines.

In the 10 x 2 Visual Thinking Strategy, students are shown an image of an artwork for 30 seconds and then asked to write down ten words or phrases that come to mind regarding the picture. Once students have completed their 10 words/phrases, they repeat the activity, with another 30 seconds to relook at the artwork, and then recording another ten words or phrases, different from the first.

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/looking-ten-times-two

DAY OF THE DEAD ART BY DAVID LOZEAU

David Lozeau creates Day of the Dead art in a non-traditional way, injecting modern, Lowbrow style into the centuries-old Dia de los Muertos subject matter. He paints unique, expressive skeleton characters and layers enamel over acrylics and gouache to achieve fine details and a smooth, bright finish for his graphic novelesque presentation. This is his way of celebrating and paying homage to his favorite time of year.

Nature Lovers

  1. Look at the image quietly for at least 30 seconds. Let your eyes wander
  2. List 10 words or phrases about any aspect of the picture.
  3. Take two and do the above steps again. 

 

The Global Write Team would love to see your notebook pages. Don’t forget to post them to our Wakelet Gallery.

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Here is my Look: 10 x 2 – Bronwyn Joyce The Global Write Creator

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Prompt 1

 

Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebration that takes place in Mexico, as well as many other Latin American and South American countries on November 2nd every year. During this holiday, families create ofrendas (Offerings) to honor their departed family members. These altars are decorated with bright yellow marigold flowers, photos of the departed, and the favorite foods and drinks of the one being honored. Day of the Dead is a rare holiday for celebrating death and life. 

 

Please join us in celebrating this beautiful tradition by creating your own Calavera Mask using the template provided below.  Record a response, sharing your creation. 

Happy Dia de los Muertos!

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Prompt 2

100 Word Challenge

This looks like a mysterious place. Tell us about it in 100 words. You can write a story, a description or even a persuasive piece. Upload your writing to The Global Write Wakelet Gallery. Be Creative!

Prompt 3

 

The Global Write Weekly Choice Board. This weeks choice board has been created by Ms. Castiglione at Westmoreland Central School, USA.

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Nurturing trust – A Media and Information Literacy Imperative

While access to the Internet is increasing worldwide, millions of people still lack access to quality, credible information.

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Nurturing trust - A Media and Information Literacy Imperative

What is Media and Information Literacy?

Our brains depend on information to work optimally. The quality of information we engage with largely determines our perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. It could be information from other persons, the media, libraries, archives, museums, publishers, or other information providers including those on the Internet.

People across the world are witnessing a dramatic increase in access to information and communication. While some people are starved for information, others are flooded with print, broadcast and digital content. 

https://www.un.org/en/observances/media-information-literacy-week

Plant The Seed - Unpack Your Thinking

Description: The Chalk Talk thinking routine provides an opportunity for everyone to be given a chance to be heard. Thinking becomes visible and it encourages students to consider others’ viewpoints.

Topical Questions:

Choose one of the following topical questions

 

What are our rights online and offline?

What are the ethical issues surrounding the access and use of information?

How can we engage with media, information and communications technologies (ICTs) to promote equality, intercultural dialogue, peace, freedom of expression and access to information?

Looking at the topical question written on the chart paper: 

  • What ideas come to mind when you consider the, question, or problem? 
  • What connections can you make to your responses? 
  • What questions arise as you think about the ideas and consider the responses and comments you have made?

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Modelled Thinking

Here is my Chalk Talk – Bronwyn Joyce The Global Write Creator

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Prompt 1

The prompt this week is 5 words. All the words must all go into your writing but can be in any order. You have up to 100 words to write a creative piece. The picture above might help your generate ideas. 

Your 5 words are: 

Choice, Children, Careful, Community, Content

Prompt 2

Look at the picture, this is a symbol of Media and Information. Use the picture to write a creative story. I know your imaginations will produce some wonderful stories! Remember to post your story to The Global Write Wakelet. 

Prompt 3

Celebrate Media Literacy

Explore the Choice Board thanks to Shannon McClintock Miller from Library Voice https://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com

Write a brief report about what you have learnt about Media Literacy. Create a poster to promote Media Literacy and how to be safe.

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