Why School Matters to Us: Learning Stories Around the World

Students share and draw pictures about what they like learning at school and why education is important to them. They talk about their favorite subjects, friends, and what makes school special in their lives.

Students exchange their drawings and stories with the partner class and explore what other students around the world value about learning. They work in small groups to find similarities and differences between their own answers and those of their international peers.

Students combine their own and their partner class's perspectives into a visual story or mural that shows what students everywhere think is important about school. They work together to celebrate what they have learned from each other.

Students present their shared visual story and reflect on what they learned about how students in different countries feel about school. They talk about the similarities they found and what surprised them most.