Activities

Introduction

During a 24-hour learning marathon, schools from all time zones and both hemispheres are simultaneously online. They join in face-to-face videoconferences and take part at the intercultural game ‘Unite the Nations’.

Books, the internet and the media show and teach us a lot about other countries and its peoples. But it is in meeting and interacting with the ‘locals’ a culture comes to life. Videoconferencing offers youth the unique opportunity to meet their peers ‘face to face’ through a live video-link between two or multiple schools. through videoconferences Time enables youth not only to get to know each other, but more so sets up and ‘broadcasts’ a live debate between youth on current world issues.

Unite the Nations, an interactive game about and between countries, challenges students to take a closer look at their own culture as well as foreign cultures. Students create multiple choice questions on geography, history, social issues, arts and sports in their country. Within 24 hours they virtually ‘race’ against each other and time in answering questions on other countries.

On Time day you can download the game and an answersheet on this page. When you have completed the answersheet send it to the Time Headquarter (timeproject@fuen.nl).

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This year we will be introducing a new activity: Clean Water Day. This activity has been developed by Dutch teachers participating in Global Exploration (www.global-exploration.nl), a programma enabling Dutch youth to do internships in India, Nepal, Peru, and Tanzania.
The idea of the activity is to test the quality of the water in your local river, and map the local flora and fauna. Afterwards the youth write a report on the result of tests and compare their results with those from other countries. Ideally the youth then connect with each other through videoconferencing and discuss clean water and environmental sustainability with each other.