Cross-Continental Collaboration

Fire and Ice. This is the name of a project that connects students from the northern hemisphere with students in the southern hemisphere. The “fire” represents the students in the southern hemisphere and “ice” students in the northern hemisphere. The goal of this project was to demonstrate that, despite their differences, both hemispheres face environmental issues that are similar to one another. The course offers students the opportunity to collaborate with one another on topics such as peace, poverty, and climate change. The students’ present different issues they face to the other schools across the word. In return the other schools work, give suggestions and information on how to solve such problems. For example, a school in Africa used the idea of plants helping to provide oxygen to water from a school in Washington to help them solve their problem of erosion and desertification. Technology made it possible for the students to meet others from around the world. Instead of reading about the different regions of the world students were able to interact and learn from people their own age that lived in those particular regions. Computers have allowed us to expand our knowledge way beyond the classroom and make what we teach meaning full for the students.