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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Create Your Own Rube Goldberg Machine (Level 3)

Learners will gain an understanding of how these machines and the role of chain reactions. They will reflect on the type and purpose of the machine they want to create, sketch out their designs, and gather household items to bring their contraptions to life. 

LEADING QUESTION

How can we create a machine that helps us do something useful or fun in our house?

Image Credit: Jeff Kubina, Flickr

Total Time Required:
50-80 minutes per day over 4 days.
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Science
Resources Required
Medium
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food
MY POP-UP RESTAURANT (LEVEL 3)

Set up a meal for your family like a restaurant including planning the meal, cooking the meal and doing the decoration. Share the meal with the family!

LEADING QUESTION

Since all restaurants are closed, can we make our own pop up restaurant and serve a meal to our guests at home?

Total Time Required:
6 hours total over 5 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (High)
Subjects:
Social Sciences
Resources Required
Medium
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earth
Shake It Up (Level 3)

Learners will begin to understand the way the Earth is designed as tectonic plates, how mountains form, what earthquakes are and how we respond to them!

LEADING QUESTION

How would you keep your community safe if there was an Earthquake?

Total Time Required:
6 hours total over 5 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (High)
Subjects:
Science, Literacy, Art and Design
Resources Required
High
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Fire Safety

Learners explore the concept of combustion and create a fire safety
handbook for their school and its students, including evacuation plans and a
fire extinguisher.

Leading question:

What should we do if there is a fire at home or at school?

Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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