Literature
What are kites?
This is the major religion in the Arab world.
What is Islam (or who are Muslims)?
This was your first STEM challenge of the year. You made a version of this Japanese toy, which is traditionally made from wood.
What is a kendama?
This is something we made when we learned about the Chinese New Year, or Lunar Year.
What are Chinese lanterns (or paper lanterns)?
Central Asian nomadic people invented this portable home. Some of the materials used to make it were sticks and felt.
What is a yurt?
Abadeha tells another version of the Cinderella story, complete with a sarimanok, or rooster. This story comes from this country.
What is the Philippines?
The Star of David has become a symbol of this world religion.
What is Judaism (or who are the Jewish people)?
Polynesians have historically been some of the best navigators on the planet, sailing across the Pacific Ocean to discover and colonize new islands. This is the STEM challenge you participated in when you learned about Polynesian navigation.
What is the sailboat STEM challenge?
This is something we made when we learned about Children's Day in Korea.
What are kites (or Korean paper kites)?
This is the name of a nomadic tribe from the middle East. They typically travel while caring for sheep, goats or cattle.
Who are the Bedouins?
We made turtles from yarn and small craft sticks, after listening to this Samoan legend.
What is The Legend of the Turtle and the Shark?
This is the major religion of India.
What is Hinduism?
We learned about Newton's third law of motion (for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction). This STEM challenge allowed you to experiment with the 3rd law of motion.
What was the balloon race (or balloon challenge)?
This is a popular mode of transportation in the Philippines. It's an example of using available materials, left in the Philippines after World War II. We made an example of one out of craft sticks.
What are Jeepneys?
This African nomadic tribe is known for herding cattle, although they do not typically eat their meat. Instead, their protein source comes from the milk and blood of the animal.
Who are the Maasai tribe?
This is another name for Taketakerau, the book we read about an old tree from New Zealand.
What is the Millennium Tree?
This is an important Hindu festival, where goodness and light are celebrated. You poked holes in black paper and made paper lanterns, when we learned about the festival.
What is Diwali?
New Zealand is known for inventing this extreme sport. You got to try it out on the playground, with bottles of glue and rubber bands.
What is bungy jumping?
This is something Hawaiians traditionally give as a way of welcoming or celebrating another person. We made them from yarn and paper cupcake liners.
What is a lei?
These are two types of waves. When we experimented with waves, we used slinkies, jump ropes and rocks dropped into water.
What are longitudinal and transverse (or perpendicular) waves?
This story told about a girl named Nasreen from Afghanistan, whose grandmother sent her to a hidden school in order to get an education.
What is Nasreen's Secret School?
This is a 40-day period of fasting, practiced yearly by Muslims. We made suncatchers that stuck to windows with contact paper, to celebrate the holy celebration.
What is Ramadan?
Middle Easterners have used this method of hunting for thousands of years. Before completing your STEM challenge, you watched a Disney clip of the same sport.
What is archery?
This stone is mined in the caves of Afghanistan. It is bright blue. We added a few beads to our wind chimes.
What is lapis lazuli?
This is a way of charting major events across a period of time.
What is a timeline?