Creator: Kyle Ruddick | visit site
Grade Range: K - 11
<b>This site is archived and may take a few minutes to load, but it is still worth a look and can make for an interesting class disscussion.</b> On October 10, 2010 (10.10.10), <i>One day on Earth</i> documents the human experience over a 24-hour period. Through <i>One Day on Earth</i> you and your students can participate in making history and, have a shared learning experience with schools in over 500 different locations around the world. Participation is free, but you need to sign up to get the toolkit to use with your students. The toolkit will provide a grade level appropriate video to introduce your students to the project, slide shows to help students brainstorm and plan their 10.10.10 experience, PDFs with lesson plans, and a step-by-step guide on uploading footage to the <i>One Day on Earth</i> website. After the date, the site remains as a living documentary of one day on Earth. You will be able to use your toolkit to show the documentary which will be the end result of the One Day on Earth project.
In the Classroom
Use your projector or interactive whiteboard to show the students the introductory video and the brainstorming slides. This project is the perfect opportunity to bring out students talents! Those who have good organizational skill can create the storyboard or illustrated timeline for the project. Sutori, <a href="/single.cfm?id=16349">reviewed here</a>, is an interactive timeline tool that can include images, text, and collaboration. Those who draw well can help with the storyboard or illustrated timeline art and help design titles and transitions for the project. Your more advanced technology students can create a website for storing and displaying the content. A wiki would be great tool to use as website to help students stay organized and to collaborate! Not familiar with wikis? Check out the<a href="/content/wiki/">TeachersFirst’s Wiki Walk-Through</a>. Students should submit their work without identifiable names according to your school policy. Of course you will want written parent permission before submitting student work to this online documentary.rn<br><br>rnYou don’t have to create anything. You can still apply for the toolkit, use your projector to show the introductory video, and use the interactive map on the home page of One Day on Earth to find out where information will be coming from. You and your students then choose a place that will be submitting to the project and go to the 100 People project, <a href="/single.cfm?id=10817">reviewed here</a>, to see a little about the people of that area. This should elicit a rich discussion about diversity and possibly predictions about the type of information that will be submitted for the One Day on Earth project or what other communities that did not participate might have included.
At Home
Sign up for the free toolkit and review the project with your student. If you don’t want your student to submit to the project, you could use the interactive map on the home page of One Day on Earth to find out where information will be coming from. Then view the resulting documentary when the project is completed.
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History & Culture: World, Language Arts, Social Studies, Social Studies,