Global Drops: Connecting Across the Oceans

Kids Beginner (6 years old) • Specific Objective: Connect basic water vocabulary with daily motor and sensory actions. • The Interaction (Class to Class): The Mascot's Water Journey (Audio & Object Exchange). • Safe Adaptation: Instead of photos of the children, the class adopts a mascot (e.g., a plush or cardboard droplet named Droppy). Teachers take photos of Droppy washing hands, drinking water, or "in the rain". Students record only the audio ("Wash hands!", "Drink water!"). • The Delivery: A small digital book (created in Book Creator) containing mascot photos and embedded student audio. • At the Cultural Fair: "We Splash, You Splash!". The panel will display printed photos of students interacting with the mascot at school (allowed for internal use) alongside the digital book or QR Codes for parents to hear the voices of their children and the international partners.

💧 2. Kids 1 and 2 (7/8 YEARS OLD) • Specific Objective: Construct simple descriptive sentences and recognize aquatic biodiversity from different parts of the globe. • The Interaction (Class to Class): Our Water Friends (Illustration Swap). • Safe Adaptation: Total focus on artistic production. Students draw or create collages of Brazilian aquatic fauna (e.g., pink river dolphin, sea turtles). These are scanned and turned into digital postcards using PADLET. They record short voice messages describing the animals ("This is a pink dolphin. It lives in the river."). • The Delivery: A virtual mural featuring the illustrated postcards and audio clips. • At the Cultural Fair: A large physical clothesline display where visitors can see the children's art. Beneath each drawing, photos of students during the painting/creation process in the classroom will be displayed to highlight the pedagogical work.

💧 3. Kids 3 and 4 (9 OR 10 YEARS OLD) • Specific Objective: Use imperatives and routine vocabulary to propose real environmental preservation solutions. • The Interaction (Class to Class): The Water Savers Challenge (Stop-Motion or Infographics). • Safe Adaptation: To avoid using student faces, they can create short stop-motion videos (using paper cutouts, playdough, or building blocks) or illustrated digital posters showing how they save water. The video audio is narrated by them ("Turn off the tap," "Save the ocean"). • The Delivery: Stop-motion videos or infographics posted on an interactive collaborative mural with the partner school. • At the Cultural Fair: "The Eco-Water Pledge". Tablets or TVs will display the animations created by the children. At the physical stand, photos of the children handling the materials during the project's creation will show the "Making Of" of active learning.

4. Cambridge / 5th Year (Starters & Movers) • Specific Objective: Exercise question formulation, authentic listening, and cultural presentation. • The Interaction (Class to Class): Global Water Podcast (Asynchronous Q&A). • Safe Adaptation: As the focus is on communicative performance, students will create a Podcast. They prepare scripts about water in local culture or facts about Brazilian rivers, record the episode (audio only), and send questions to partners ("How often does it rain in your city?", "Do you have a famous river?"). The partner school responds by recording the next episode. AI-animated avatars that speak with the students' voices are also a safe alternative. • The Delivery: Audio files or links to the animated avatar videos. • At the Cultural Fair: "Global Water Radio/Cinema". A station with headphones where parents can listen to the fluent English interviews. Surrounding this, panels will feature photos of students in the "recording studio" (the classroom) with microphones, showing how seriously the preparation was taken