Summary: Teachers and students prepare an envelope containing holiday cards and send them using snail mail to the other schools in their group.
Description: Teachers and students prepare an envelope with Christmas cards to send to the other participants prior to Christmas. Students that do not celebrate Christmas are encouraged to join the project. The project may be called the Greeting card exchange and students would send Chinese New Year, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Eid greeting cards. Each school will be placed in a group with approximately seven other schools and will prepare either handmade or purchased cards (decorations may be included) to send to each of the other schools.
- Facilitator(s): Judy_Barr
- Country: Australia
- Languages: English
- Student Age Level: 5-11, 12-14, 15-18
- Contributions: Help students understand more about other countries' culture and traditions.
- Outcomes: Each classroom will receive an envelope with cards from a number of different countries and will be able to make an exhibition to show their school community. Students will learn about holiday traditions in other countries.
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