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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)
Subjects:
Mathematics & Numeracy, Science, Literacy, Art and Design
Resources Required
High
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)
Subjects:
Mathematics & Numeracy, Science, Art and Design
Resources Required
High
Learners will explore different kinds of code languages like glyphs, sign language, braille, and numeric codes. They will create short (2-3 sentences) theme-based riddles, encode them, and challenge others to decode and solve them. They will also provide hints and codebreakers for assistance.
Leading Question
Can you encode and decode like a cryptologist?
Total Time Required:
40-60 minutes a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Mathematics & Numeracy, Social Emotional Learning, Literacy
Resources Required
Medium
Learners will write their own songs and perform them with rhythm and beat. They will learn the basic elements of writing a song which include, message, lyrics, rhyme, rhyming scheme, simile, metaphor, personification, synonyms and rhythm and use them to complete the project.
Leading Question
How can I write a song that conveys a message/ story?
Total Time Required:
40-50 minutes a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Social Emotional Learning, Literacy
Resources Required
Low
Learners will independently create a vision board with their vision and goals. They will learn how to achieve their goals by tracking them regularly. They will also explore antonyms and synonyms and use them in their vision boards.
Leading Question
How do I set goals for my life and work towards achieving them?
Total Time Required:
40-50 minutes a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Social Emotional Learning, Literacy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Low
Learners will create their own mini encyclopedias. They will expand their vocabulary and investigate the objects, people, and celebrations in their surroundings. They will represent their understanding through text and visuals/ drawings. Additionally, they will include any interesting facts they know or discover.
Leading Question
Can you create a book of interesting things and people you see around?
Total Time Required:
40-50 minutes a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Social Emotional Learning, Literacy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Low
Learners will conduct interviews and make ID cards for an adult and themselves to foster connectedness and learn about differences and similarities, in addition to vocabulary and practice their writing skills!
Leading Question
How can an ID card teach us about each other?
Total Time Required:
40-50 minutes a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Social Emotional Learning, Literacy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Low
Learners will understand the meaning of conflict and how to express themselves during a conflict. They will perform a skit demonstrating ways to solve conflict and maintain peace.
Leading Question
How can I express myself during a conflict?
Total Time Required:
40-50 minutes a day for 4 days
Self-guided / Supervised activity:
Supervised (Medium)
Subjects:
Social Emotional Learning, Literacy, Art and Design
Resources Required
Low
M-Education Alliance Award (Crisis and Conflict Response)
USA, 2021
World Innovations Summit For Education (WISE) Award
Qatar, 2022
HundrED Innovations Global Collection
Finland, 2022
QS-Wharton Reimagine Education (Access, Diversity, and Inclusion)
USA, 2023
HGSE Alumni Council Award for Impact in Education
USA, 2024
Open Education Awards for Excellence
Qatar, 2024
Anthem Awards
USA, 2024
Resource Categories part two
Playlists
PBL resources organized by theme to give learners a more focused learning experience
Learning Packages→
Ready-to-use, holistic, and interactive student-facing tools that combine our existing IFERB resources into month-long workbooks.
Innovations Development Directorate
Innovation Development in EAA works towards identifying persistent challenges in global education, designing and developing innovative solutions to make learning accessible to all, particularly to the hardest-to-reach children and youth in underserved communities. We created IFERB, an award-winning learning approach with diverse and engaging resources to help children learn from the world around them.