Kate Strein an 8th grade ELA and Pre-AICE Global Perspectives teacher at Jupiter Middle School in Jupiter, Florida and Cynthia Lee a high school English teacher at Changhua Arts High School in  Changhua City, Taiwan had a very successful connection this year. They were able to complete three exchanges throughout the year.

For their first exchange, Kate and Cynthia had their students record themselves using Canva.  Students used a sentence stem template to help build responses. You can access the sentence stem template here. You can watch students Danelia and Kelly share about themselves below.

For the second exchange, Kate and Cynthia gave their student a few choices. Students could  either tell their friends about a class that they had at school or they could write about landmarks or fun places to go to in their town. Kate had her students make slide decks about thier school and city. Cynthia had her students make Canva posters.

Jupiter Middle School  Slide Decks

Jupiter Landmark Slide Decks

 Changua Arts High School Canva Posters

 Changua Landmark Canva Posters

For the third exchange of the year, Kate’s middle school students focused on local sea turtle conservation efforts which are headed up by the Logger Head Marine Life Center. Kate’s students worked together in teamx. Each team focused on a different part of the sea turtles’ life cycle.  Each report highlights different problems that sea turtles are facing and local conservation efforts that help solve the problems. You can see some of their work below.

For their final exchange, Cynthia sent some Taiwanese snacks for the Jupiter Middle School students to sample.  Kate’s students tried the snacks and wrote thier impressions down next to the snack.  Some photos of the snacks and student responses can be found below.