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Innovation Project: 515 Schools, 85 Countries Focusing On Sustainability And Innovation

By Koen Timmers Why do people invent? What is the purpose of innovation? Earning (more) money? Making people’s lives easier, more interesting? Make the world more sustainable? Sadly enough, in many cases innovation is based on financial benefits. So, it’s time to connect students around the world focusing on innovations that make the world more sustainable. This is how the Innovation Project was born. The … Continue reading Innovation Project: 515 Schools, 85 Countries Focusing On Sustainability And Innovation

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Educator Spotlight: Exploring Challenges of Water Quality and Access

Lisa Abramovitz guided her third-grade students through a multifaceted investigation of water quality and access. Students completed a visual water usage survey, read picture books about clean water, conducted background research, and took part in a water walk to understand the difficulties of traveling long distances to obtain water. Their learning culminated in working with a nonprofit to construct water filters for those in need. Continue reading Educator Spotlight: Exploring Challenges of Water Quality and Access

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Educator Spotlight: Tracing the Footsteps of the Vikings

Colleen Dunn teaches 10th-grade humanities at the Barrie School in Silver Spring, MD. Her ancient world history and literature students examined the origins of place names in England and pieced together their observations to retrace the path of the historical Viking invasion. Continue reading Educator Spotlight: Tracing the Footsteps of the Vikings

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Climate Action: 250 Schools, 69 Countries Focusing on Climate Change

By Koen Timmers As a student, I frequently learned via boring textbooks about certain subjects, and I remember very little about those topics since I didn’t make any emotional connection and thus wasn’t engaged. As an educator, I decided to do things differently and welcomed students across six continents to focus on climate change and exchange thoughts. The result? The Climate Action Project! Collaboration is … Continue reading Climate Action: 250 Schools, 69 Countries Focusing on Climate Change

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