Suggested Activities for Sister Schools

Each Chicago school and its Sister School Abroad have a unique character and personality.  The bond between schools will be heightened as teachers and students collaborate on projects and integrate their relationship into their existing curriculum.  In communication with your sister school, the below suggestions may be useful for planning curriculum-based activities which will highlight your sister school relationship.  However, these are only some suggestions, the key is to be creative, dynamic and interesting.

1. E-mail pal exchanges
2. Pen pal exchanges
3. Postcard exchanges (this way schools on both sides can see their sister cities)
4. Create a school photo album to exchange with your sister school
5. Create an arts-based lesson plan for exchange (i.e. students draw pictures of school, city, themselves, their families, etc, to send abroad
6. Have students research specific aspects of their sister city’s culture and report on that
7. Create a website about your school to share with your sister school
8. Contact the consulate representative from your sister city country to invite them to visit your school and to meet your students
9. Create a cookbook to exchange with your sister school
10. Work with other schools paired with your sister school to exchange information and ideas
11. Visit museums, with the aim of finding out more information about your sister school
12. Create a bulletin board in your school about your sister city