Collaborative Activities
A snapshot of each collaborative activity is outlined below. Click the title link for more information and to download the full collaborative activity and associated worksheets (if applicable).
This is the first collaboration activity every school in the BRIDGE Project should undertake. It involves setting the project up at school and then embarking on the first round of activities with your partner school.
We all look at age and ageing differently. In this collaboration activity, partner school students will investigate attitudes towards and community involvement, of older members in their community; This includes representation in the media to develop an appreciation of individual history and value the wisdom, knowledge and skills developed.
2. Animal Mania
In this collaboration activity, partner school students are encouraged to become experts on animal topics and to share information about their country and their animals. The information developed will be combined to create a cross-cultural body of knowledge on animals.
Fashion, art and culture invariably influence each other. But what drives fashion and art? Increasing interest in batik reflects both cultural and functional considerations - including school uniforms! In this project, students will examine fashion, fashion design, traditional art and crafts and begin to understand how different cultures influence fashion and art. Students share, compare and work collaboratively to research and create their own fashion designs.
In this collaboration activity, students will work in a partnership with an overseas class to develop understanding of each other’s culture through a study of games, sports and recreation. They will create and share presentations on the group Wikispace.
This activity builds on the original Getting Started collaboration activity, and has adapted some elements to incorporate usage of mobile phones for communication between students and teachers in partner schools. Like Getting Started, this could be the first collaboration activity partner schools undertake together.
These collaboration activities encourage students to ask: How healthy is my community? How can my community's health be improved? By working cooperatively to develop a health campaign and run and evaluate that campaign, students in both partner schools will be urged to lead by example within their school community.
7. Hey Mr. DJ, Turn The Music On!
In this collaboration activity, partner school students will explore music – traditional and popular - which will encourage discussion amongst the students involved. There is a range of activities that students can choose complete over the 8 weeks.
8. It’s Iconic
In this collaboration activity, partner school students identify and explain places, people and activities that they consider icons of their culture. They assemble a ‘culture box’ and send this to their partner class.
In this collaboration activity, students will work with their partner class to develop an understanding of each other’s culture through a study of celebrations, ceremonies, festivals and rituals.
The aim of this collaboration activity is to encourage discussion about issues that matter to young people and to consider ways in which young people can feel empowered to make a difference.
In this collaboration activity, partner school students share the physical and emotional experience of ‘their place’ (school or neighbourhood) and compare this with their partner’s place. This is a useful project to follow the Getting Started Project.
In this collaboration activity, partner school students will explore their own stories and work together to define folktale, legend and myth, retell popular stories and share with their partner class, identifying similar themes. The final output will be a co-authored story.
13. The Not So Lonely Planet Guide
In this collaboration activity, your students will consider how cultural difference might cause misunderstandings and create products to support visitors in better understanding their culture.
14. People Patterns
In this collaboration activity, partner school students share the things that they do outside school time, including leisure activities; and compare with their partner class. Through this project they will create a collage and writing to communicate what they do outside school time.
In this collaboration activity, partner school students will share a day in their life through a range of activities that depict one day. They will communicate with their partner students about that day to develop their understanding of the life of the other culture by producing new pages on the group Wikispace.
16. The Cooking Show
This collaboration activity focuses on traditional foods of the respective countries involved. Partner school students will be required to make their own cooking shows.
This collaboration activity is a game much like the game ‘Articulate’. Using the Wikispace, the students provide each other with clues to words that are used in their daily lives.
18. Typical Teenager: How Typical Are We?
In this collaboration activity students from both partner schools work together to create and carry out a survey to identify the characteristics of a typical young person.
19. Building BRIDGEs Anthology
This longitudinal collaboration activity will draw on student artwork and writing from all BRIDGE schools, collated into an exciting and moving anthology of student work that will act as a valuable artefact and legacy of the BRIDGE Project.
