Google Earth's This is School

As we start another school year, you can review previous posts about school such as Back to School Around the World, School Around the World, or How Kids Get to School.

Check out Google Earth's This is School

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

1. Pick one of the places and describe what you see in the photo in detail. What are the decorations? How is the room set up? Describe the uniforms and school materials. What is outside school area appear?
2. Compare two of the places with 2 similarities and 2 differences. 
3. Is there a school that you'd prefer to attend? Explain your answer.
4. Is there a school that you'd prefer NOT to attend? Explain your answer. 
5. List 3 new things your learned from one of the places. 

Back to School Around the World

It's always interesting to compare education around the world, from how students get to school to what they eat at school.  Originally from this article, here are a few photos from the first day of school from around the world.

Children play at school in Toribio, department of Cauca, Colombia, on Aug. 29. Colombia began its first day of peace with the country’s largest insurgency after a ceasefire went into effect, ending 52 years of warfare. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)

Fourteen out of fifteen sets of twins, from the Inverclyde area, pose for a photograph in Clyde Square in Greenock, Scotland, ahead of their first day at school, Aug. 15. Pictured are, back row left to right, Emma and Grace McEleny, Fraser and Nathan McGrath, Jackson and Elizabeth Reid, Brooke and Skye Smith, and Andrew and Thomas Stewart. Middle row left to right, Charlotte and Morgan Goyal, Orlagh and Niamh Keen, Charlie and Olivia Lyne and Olivia and Rhogen McCurry. Front row left to right, Craig and Stuart Arthur, Caragh and Sophie Doig, Jude and Luca Donnachie, Jessica and Lauren Egan and Max and Nyah Glover. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

Pupils at the “Tamra HaEmek” elementary school wait for the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, on the first day of the school year, in the Arab Israeli town of Tamra, Israel Sept. 1. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

Ukrainian children from cadet’s lyceum attend the first day of school, which marks the traditional start of the academic year in Kiev, Ukraine, Sept. 1. September 1st is The Day of Knowledge marking the beginning of every school year in Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey/EPA)

Students wish themselves good luck during a ceremony marking the first day back to class at Lycee National school in the Petion-Ville suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 5. Half of Lycee’s students didn’t return to school. Those students’ parents complained they can’t afford the tuition, uniforms or school supplies. (Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press)

Palestinian schoolgirls sit in front of a mural on the first day of a new school year, at a United Nations-run school in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip Aug. 28. The mural reads, “Freedom of movement is my right.” (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

Children attend the Kurulen Primary school in Vuwani, Limpopo, after it opened its doors for the fist time in three months on Aug. 4, with only a few students pitching up for the first day of school. Kurulen Primary school, was one of the 25 schools that was set alight during the recent violent protests. (Mujahid Safodien/AFP/Getty Images)

Refugee schoolchildren attend a lesson on the first day of the new school year at one of the UNRWA schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat, in Amman, Jordan, Sept 1. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and answer 2 of the following questions in complete sentences based on these images.

• How do the images of these schools compare to the first day of your school day?
• Select one of the images and explain current events happening in that country right now. How might those current events affect education?
• Select one of the images and research about school in that country. When is the school year? How many years of education is typical in that country?
• Select 3 photos and describe the outfits you see students wear. Do they have uniforms? If not, does it look like the clothes they are wearing are part of a dress code?

School Around the World

Do you ever wonder how your school life compares to other students around the world? Review this previous post on how students get to school around the world.

Click here to see photos of what students around the world wear to school

source: visualy

Hot Tamale Activities

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio
and complete one of the following tasks.

• Describe the 3-5 of the school uniforms in Spanish. Insert the photos. 
• What else do you notice about the photos? 
• Describe the surroundings.
• According to the infographic, which country seems to have the hardest school schedule? 
• Rank the top 5 most difficult ways.
• What have you learned about schools in different countries from this information? Provide 2-3 specific details.

How Kids Get to School

Children cross the river using pulleys on their way to school in the outskirts of Modena, Italy, 1959.

Many of our City High staff and students have quite the trek to school everyday. Let's look at how other students get to school. Look at How Students Go To School then answer one or more of the following Hot Tamale Activities in a blog post or email to bordner@cityhigh.org.

• Create a map and insert the images into the different countries they represent on the map. Embed the map into a blog post or email the link.
• Which way looks the hardest and why? 
• Rank the top 5 most difficult ways.
• What else do you notice about the photos? 
• Describe the surroundings.
• What are the school children wearing?
• Look at other pages of this website. What is this organization about? Share 5 other things you learned about the world through this website.

Undocumented Youth in the United States

As we've been learning about immigration, we've been focusing on what should happen to the teenagers who are living in the United States but are not legal U. S. Citizens.

Click here to listen to a radio piece about students in a high school in El Paso, Texas. They go to school in the United States, but some of them are believed to be undocumented. (You do not have to prove citizenship to be educated in the United States.)

Email your responses to the Hot Tamale Activities below to bordner@cityhigh.org

• Describe the family situation of one of the students (Alonso, Junior, or Zuarmitzi) in the story.
• Pick one of the students and explain what you would do if you were in their situation.