The purpose of this project is to create bounds of friendship and cooperation between educational communities of Asia and Latinamerica. The participating classes will work together on different activities through which they will share introductions, their local realities and geography, natural resources, art and others.

Based on a game called BONGOH, a thematic project available to schools on the iEARN site since 1991. In this game, the members of each group will create an island of an archipelago called AACTION, a country that keep the typical features of the participants' own country, but trying to solve some problems present in real life through the help of the other countries’ experience. Each one of the groups should describe its country, the geography, natural resources, artistic expressions, economy, way of life, etc., through the exchange activities such as the creation of the first library of the island. Also, the groups should select some typical or relevant characters of their countries that will be the ones to manage their correspondent island and that establish relationship with the governors or mangers of the other “new” countries in the archipelago. Also, the groups will be able to solve the enigmas of the animator character that will follow them during the whole project. A complete guide will available to the coordinating teacher.

Facilitated by: Crescencio Orrego, Claudia Rodríguez, and Patricia Ochoa in Argentina

Ages: All

Languages: English. Participation in the native languages of participating groups is welcome (Spanish, Japanese, Thai, Taiwanese, etc.) provided that there is someone in the group who can translate and facilitate communication with the other participants. 

Dates: Ongoing

Website: http://www.edebedigital.com/proyectos/710/

Contact: For more information about participating in this or other iEARN projects, write to iearn@iearn.org.