Class2Class has created the project "Build the Change: Child-Friendly Communities" in Class2Class.org

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Build the Change: Child-Friendly Communities

What is this project about?

How could your community become a better place for children to live, learn and play? Invite your class to explore their surroundings, choose a challenge that matters to them and build a creative solution. Share ideas with classrooms around the world,...

Project Duration: September to November 2026

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Where the classrooms are

5 classrooms

Learning Outcomes

Give children meaningful opportunities to identify challenges affecting their communities.

Analyze

Develop problem-solving, creativity, collaboration and participation skills.

Apply

Introduce children to a simple design-thinking and solution-oriented process.

Remember / Understand

Enable classrooms to learn from children and teachers in other communities and countries.

Remember / Understand

Project Activities

B - Be a community detective

What is our community like for children? Children look around their neighbourhood and notice what works, what doesn't, and what they would like to change. Each class settles on one challenge that matters to them. Publish your community on the wall: two or three photos or drawings plus what the class noticed.

U - Unpack it, then unleash ideas

Why does this happen, and who does it affect? Children find out more by observing, asking questions and interviewing parents or neighbours, then imagine freely what could be different. Ideas come before practicality. Post the challenge and an early idea on the wall and respond to two other classes.

I - Invent it

Show us your idea. Children turn their best idea into something they can show: a model built with LEGO bricks, a prototype, a drawing, a poster, a presentation or a video. Post work in progress on the wall and give one other class encouragement or a suggestion.

L - Link up

What can other children learn from us, and we from them? Classes publish their work on Class2Class and exchange with classrooms in other countries working on similar challenges. Publish the finished solution on the wall and respond to at least two other classes.

D - Do it better

What did we learn? Children reflect on what they saw elsewhere, improve their idea, and say what they changed and why. Choose one improvement from the feedback on the wall and record what the class would change.

Skills to develop

Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving

Creativity & Innovation

Collaboration & Teamwork

Intercultural Communication

This project contributes to the following global goals

This project promotes and protects these children's rights

Live collaboration

Teacher introduction
Meet like-minded teachers, exchange ideas and get inspired to bring the project to life with your class.
Classroom idea exchange
Share your class’s early ideas and get feedback from other classrooms.
Final sharing
Share what your students created and discover what other classes learned.

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