The projects are designed to be low on resources and technology free. These are developed keeping the learning outcomes of the specified age group in mind. We have attempted to make the projects engaging and related to multiple subjects and learning. Each of the projects is across approximately a week for about an hour a day, these can help in contexts without online-schooling options or supplement it.

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News
What's In The News? (Level 3)

Learners will put together a community newspaper to provide access to useful information to the community. They will explore the different sections in a newspaper and identify the sections they can keep in their community newspaper to make it engaging, fun, and useful. As they work on the community newspaper, they will learn to use complete sentences to express their ideas, opinions, and facts.

LEADING QUESTION

What does it take to make a newspaper for our community

Total Time Required:
40-50 minutes a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Mathematics, Social Emotional Learning, Literacy
Resources Required
Low
Fun with Machines

Learners will learn how force, pressure, and friction work in the real world
and unleash their inner engineer by creating their own Rube Goldberg
machine!

Leading question:

Can you build a machine that will be useful and fun?

Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Book
MY DIALECT AND MSA (Level 3)

Learners practice their reading and data handling skills and discover the similarities and differences between your dialect and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)

LEADING QUESTION:

How is my dialect different from (and similar to) MSA?

Total Time Required:
40 minutes-2 hours a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Low)
Subjects:
Mathematics
Resources Required
Medium
Lightning and Earthquakes

Learners will explore the fascinating forces of nature and learn all about the
causes and effects of lightning and earthquakes to design structures that can
withstand these natural disasters.

Leading question:

Can you build an earthquake or lightning resistant house?

Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
water conservation
Water Conservation: From Awareness to Action

Water Conservation: From Awareness to Action 


Learners will make materials to spread awareness about the need and ways to conserve water in their community. They will do this based on the concepts of causes of water scarcity, water usage in our daily lives, water cycle, and rainwater harvesting to do so. 

 

Total Time Required:
40-50 minutes a day for 5 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Mathematics, Science, Art and Design
Developed By
EAA Team
Resources Required
Medium
The Moon and Stars In My Life

Learners will explore celestial bodies and how they are connected to our
day-to-day lives. They will then make their own rockets that can travel to
distant planets and capture details of imagined alien lives that exist on
them.

Leading question:

How are the celestial bodies related to our daily lives?

Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Green Guardians: Cultivate, Care, and Sell

Learners will explore the steps followed in cultivating crops and growing
their own plants. They will then design an irrigation/ agricultural tool.
Finally, they will set up a farmer's market in which they will sell their
produce and the irrigation/ agricultural tool that they designed.

Leading question:

Can you cultivate and sell your own crops?

Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
solar heater
Solar Water Heater

Learners will understand and apply the concepts of heat absorption and insulation to design and create a solar water heater. They will also understand the workings of a thermometer and use it to measure the temperature of heated water.

LEADING QUESTION:

How hot can water get if I heat it only using sunlight?

Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Science
Developed By
EAA Team
Resources Required
Medium