Pebbles
Project-Based Language Learning Repository
Building Literacies
by Rachel Mamiya Hernandez
Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) uses meaningful inquiry to engage students with language, communities, and content. This project aimed to connect learners from different parts of the world in building both traditional and digital literacy skills.
According to UNESCO's 2012-2015 Round Table on Literacy Action Plan for Brazil, "T...
Travel Guide for Elderly Tourists from Japan
by Emi Murayama
Japan is the country with the longest life expectancy. This means that there is a large population with an abundance of leisure time. An ...
Storybooks for Haiti and Napa
by Don Doehla, NBCT
Students will gain greater literacy, while supporting others in their own literacy development, by co-authoring children's storybooks wit...
Girl power!
by Nicole Naditz
In many parts of the world, including our Peace Corps match village in rural western Africa, girls are unlikely to continue their...
ISI 2015: The Little Explorers Project
by Maria Paredes-Fernandez
The concept of global citizenship is paramount, especially now in our increasingly interconnected world. It is so important, that Rick St...
Clean Water for All / Agua Limpia para Todos
by Stacy Amling
All too often, we frame the discussion of clean water and water access as a problem that others face. We take for granted that the water ...
"Easy Japanese" & How We Want It to Be: Messages from Japanese Learners in American Colleges
by Naoko Nemoto
In this project, students will contribute to the developing Easy Japanese by making suggestions to those who are conducting research on i...
¡Vamos a la feria! / Let's go to the Fair!
by Stacy Amling
Typical celebrations and fairs often have deep cultural ties that go far beyond the surface images and practices in which participants en...
Celebrating Persian New Year (Noruz) at University of Hawaii at Manoa
by Ladan Hamedani
The project idea is to present Persian New Year, Noruz, at University of Hawaii at Manoa. The product will be presenting an event introdu...
Bollywood Parody of Romeo and Juliet
by Sai Bhatawadekar
This is a cross-cultural creative project that involves co-writing, directing, and performing a parody of an iconic Indian film. (Think t...
Melding Games with Empathy
by Beverlyn Nagaue
Japanese III high school students concurrently study the Japanese concept of "omoiyari" (similar to empathy) and Japanese New Year's acti...
Growing a Russian-Language Community at a Mid-Western Liberal Arts College
by Maria Hristova
Problem:
DePauw students of Russian investigate why the Russian-speaking community at the university has dwindled to the point of virtu...
Making the World Better for the Future: Through discussing current social and cultural issues in Japanese
by Noriko Fujioka-Ito
The ultimate goal of this project is to compare and contrast two cultures in an effort to mutually understand other cultures and develop ...
Getting to know the Spanish speaking community at Everett Community College
by Sarah Willoughby
The students will become familiar with the Spanish speaking population of our college through exporation of the cultural context includin...
Mottainai for an Eco Life
by Junko Simpson
Global warming is a serious issue that people around the world are concerned about. San Diego has been listed as one of the 14 cities in ...
Healthy Activities in All Weather
by Sally Garneski
First grade students studying the weather in their science classes will share data from their journals with the 8th grade students. Stude...
The Local Scoop: Engaging Russian Tourists in Visits to Singapore
by Amanda Lerner
Singapore is increasingly a popular tourism destination for Russians and Russian-speakers, and yet few hotels cater specifically to Rus...
Not So Fast: The Influx of American Fast Food in Italy and Its Effects on Italian Youth
by Daniela Busciglio
This project examines the increasing quantity of American fast food chains in Italy and the increasing consumption of fast food by Italia...
Tourist Guides for Teens - An Intercultural Journey
by Don Doehla, NBCT
Students in Napa, California, will collaborate with students in Ottawa, Canada, and in Marseille, France, to create digital tourist guide...
Dunk Tank for Natsumatsuri (Japanese summer festival) at a Japanese Language School
by Masako Douglas
Students at a Japanese as a heritage language (JHL) school will make a proposal for their school’s Japanese summer festival, in whi...
Cute and Wild Orphans! ¡Huérfanos lindos y silvestres!
by Alicia Gignoux
Humans come into contact with wildlife all over the world. Some of the encounters are positive and others ...
Great East Japan Earthquake and Energy policy and production
by Noriko Kolbe
Students will help support Japanese speaking Georgians to develop a stance on critical energy issues in Georgia by cr...
Animal Action News Program: Help Wild Animals Stay Wild
by I-Ling Hsu
The key driver for eating is hunger for sure but the eating habit we have is not solely determined by physiological or nutritional needs....
What makes a place a good place to...?
by Stephen Tschudi
Challenging Problem or Question: What makes a place a good place to...?
In different cultures, different public spaces are considered ap...
Green Campus Initiative
by I-Ling Hsu
The American and Chinese college students will collaborate and generate ideas to meet the goal of green campus announced by the Chinese g...
To Compare American High School with Chinese High School
by Jennifer Kuo
Students are learning to talk about classes and subjects and their schedules. If just ask them to report their school life is a too simpl...
Japanese campus map and guide
by Yumiko Tateyama
There has been an increase in the number of Japanese visitors to the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) campus. While the English versio...
School Supplies for Puerto Rico/ Materiales Escolares para Puerto Rico
by j pedersen
Schools in Puerto Rico are desperate for school supplies following Hurricane Maria and are getting very little official support. The purp...
The UNIS/NYC guide for newbies
by Ricardo Calderón
Language learners will investigate the challenges local/foreign families and students face when moving to New York city. They will collab...
Get Ready to Host! - A Practical Guide to be a Good Host
by Hiroko Schierman
Preserving the history of unknown voices
by Ingrid Campos Montero
This 10-week project is designed for SPAN 3117 Bridge Course class. This is a new program implemented in Utah for students that have pass...
A series of short video clips for American students interested in learning Chinese and Taiwanese cultures
by Ching-Hsuan Wu
A culture can be perceived differently by members of the culture and its outsiders. Additionally, individual participants involved in the...
What is dyslexia and how can we help Japanese people to get/give support?
by Naoko Nemoto
In Japan, dyslexia is not known well yet. The vast majority of the Japanese people had never heard of the word until very recently. Some ...
El valor de las historias
by Florencia Westenskow
Students in a university SPAN 101 class explored the power of stories. They interviewed native Spanish speakers to gather inspiring stori...
#ICARE
by Romina Castagno
A real-world problem nowadays is bullying and discrimination inside and outside classrooms where students hurt themselves physically and ...
I wish I knew then what I know now
by Lucas Silvestre Capalbo
College students of Portuguese interviewed international students from Portuguese-speaking countries to find out what were their ...
Social Issues Web Easy: Vol. 1 U.S. Military Presence in Okinawa
by Sachiko Kamioka
Many learners of Japanese are interested in current social issues of Japan. Without advanced proficiency, however, reading Japanese newsp...
Machu Chicos Children's Menus
by Laura Sexton
There could be so much more to the children´s menu than chicken strips! To encourage younger diners to try new foods, Spanish I stu...
GCHSpanish
by JJ AdamsJones
This project is designed to showcase talents of current Spanish students to show prospective students the importance of learning another ...
Empowering Second Grade French Students to Become Global Citizens
by Anne-Sophie Roure
Kids United, a French musical group of six children was founded in 2000 to support UNICEF campaigns. The Kids United’&nbs...
Japanglish - looking at the culture through the mirror of language
by Kasumi Yamamoto
Japan is considered a homogeneous societ...
Food APPs, Disposable Products, and Our Lives
by Yu Joyce Wu
In recent years, especially during the pandemic, food ordering/delivery APPs, such as Uber Eats/Doordash in the U.S., 饿了么 (Hungry Now?)/ ...
Helping Our Tutors Be Successful
by Olga Thomason
Students will assist Russian-speaking academic professionals in adapting to new fast-paced academic environment in UGA by creating a webs...
Where Have All The Butterflies Gone?
by Shandy Lemperle
The Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, California is one of 400 overwintering sites for monarch butterflies. In recent years, ...
MAPATX: Promoting Self-Sufficiency Among Portuguese-Speaking Refugees in Austin
by Mariana Sabino
Texas is a border state that receives immigrants and refugees from all over the world. Many Haitians who lived in Brazil and Angolan asyl...
A Telecollaboration Project: Creating Study Abroad (SA) Pre-departure materials
by Yizhe Huang
As a Flagship Institute, a big group of students will go abroad in different programs in Taiwan at their second year for 2 months. The ma...
The ABCs of Social Justice: creating a bilingual book to help foster literacy skills, critical thinking, and individual engagement in young adults who speak English and/or Portuguese.
by Ana Paula Lopez
Alphabet e-book on social justice movements (individual and group movements) that seek to change their communities' reality in the US and...