The document provides guidance for several challenge-based learning projects focused on using technology and digital resources in primary education. It outlines seven proposed challenges: 1) bridging generational gaps, 2) connecting science, technology and audiovisual language, 3) improving the immigrant experience, 4) increasing arts and music in schools, 5) creating mobile libraries, 6) celebrating storytelling traditions, and 7) helping others develop digital skills. For each, it provides an overview, challenging question, guiding questions, suggested activities and resources. The overall document aims to provide educators with ideas and support for student-led challenge-based learning projects.

1. Are you up to the
challenge?
Some challenge sheets to start approaching Challenge Based Learning.
A proposal by Mª Jesús García San Martín.
The use of ICT and Digital Resources in Primary Bilingual Education.
URJC. February 2014
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

2. Bridge the generation gap
Overview
The school staff where you work are worried that their kids and teenagers often feel that the
older ones do not understand their troubles and that their parents and grandparents do not
actually know what they are talking about. They challenge you to set up a committee of
experts to establish a programme and discover ways to show kids and teenagers that there is
more to every generation than they might think.
Idea
Generation gap
The Challenging Question
How can generations be brought together?
Guiding Steps
Read and analyse the challenge scenario, designing a mindmap
Adequately define the challenge you are facing
Identify what you know about the challenge you are up to
Identify which issues you do not know
Design a work plan to tackle the challenge
Gather and organise information
Analyse the gathered information
Develop activities, present and share the process and outcomes.
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3. Guiding Activities
1. Discuss and reflect your feelings about your own community.
2. Find adequate web resources and media that help you bridge the generation gap.
3. Plan and create multimedia content and activities that can bridge the generation gap.
4. Design a virtual environment to share your project.
5. Present your project to the world.
Guiding Resources
American Family
Bridging the generation gap with diverse, creative education
Bridging learners and educators
Generation gap worksheets
The Value of Wrinkles
15 años y un día
Cero en conducta
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4. Audiovisual Science
Overview
The European Commission in charge of Lifelong Learning is afraid that Science, Technology and
Audiovisual Language are falling behind in Education these days because the children in
Primary Education are not working in a connected way. They challenge you to set up a
committee of experts to set up a programme that shows that Science, Technology and
Audiovisual Language are not incompatible and to help children discover how science can be
creative, helpful and fun.
Idea
Audiovisual Science
The Challenging Question
What makes Fiction into Science and Science into Fiction?
Guiding Questions
Read and analyse the challenge scenario, designing a mindmap
Adequately define the challenge you are facing
Identify what you know about the challenge you are up to
Identify which issues you do not know
Design a work plan to tackle the challenge
Gather and organise information
Analyse the gathered information
Develop activities, present and share the process and outcome.
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5. Guiding Activities
1. Have a micro Science Fiction storytelling marathon.
2. Visit Robotics Labs.
3. Compile a robotic photo album.
4. Set up mLearning libraries of science and robots apps.
5. Record a robotic movie.
6. Narrate science experiments.
7. Design a virtual environment to share your project.
8. Present your project to the world.
Guiding Resources
European Robotics Week Education
EU Robotics Week 13 / Education in Spain
Science and Audiovisual Language
Effective Use of Audiovisual Curricula to Teach Science
Scientix
Maths and ESL
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6. Improve the immigrant experience
Overview
The Social Services in your city think that arriving immigrants sometimes are not able to find
their own way around or where to look for help to become part of the city. They challenge you
to set up a committee of experts, put yourself into the boots of an immigrant and establish a
programme to help them improve their trip and arrival into the city.
Idea
Migration, immigrants, melting pot
The Challenging Question
How can you improve the immigrants’ experience into your country?
Guiding Questions
Read and analyse the challenge scenario, designing a mindmap
Adequately define the challenge you are facing
Identify what you know about the challenge you are up to
Identify which issues you do not know
Design a work plan to tackle the challenge
Gather and organise information
Analyse the gathered information
Develop activities, present and share the process and outcome.
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7. Guiding Activities
1. Charts of immigrants, their thoughts of their homeland, their traditions, the culture
clash, their needs.
2. Interviews to immigrants.
3. Augmented guide of points of interest for immigrants: illustrated, geolocalised,
enrichened.
4. Design a virtual environment to share your project.
5. Present your project to the world.
Guiding Resources
Kids Discover (Immigration)
Immigration Reform: Understanding the Issue From Different Points of View
Immigrant Voices
El Barco del Exilio: Blog and Site
In search of a better life
Educando en mundos sutiles
Manzanas, pollos y quimeras
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8. Let’s flood the school with music & art
Overview
The Head of Studies in your school is afraid the place is becoming dull, empty and lacking
personality because Arts and Music are second place areas. She challenges you to set up a
committee of experts and plan a programme to turn the school into an art museum full of
colourful music.
Idea
Art, music, media literacy
The Challenging Question
Can Arts and Music turn the school into a more sensitive place?
Guiding Questions
Read and analyse the challenge scenario, designing a mindmap
Adequately define the challenge you are facing
Identify what you know about the challenge you are up to
Identify which issues you do not know
Design a work plan to tackle the challenge
Gather and organise information
Analyse the gathered information
Develop activities, present and share the process and outcome.
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9. Guiding Activities
1. Design posters and leaflets; enrich them with digital technologies.
2. Record music, songs, sounds, chants, artful phrases and texts.
3. Choose arts of work to exhibit.
4. Choose soundtracks to play publicly.
5. Design a virtual environment to share your project.
6. Present your project to the world.
Guiding Resources
Plastinglish
Do Now Arts and Pop Culture
Music
How to set up an Art Exhibition
Creating a Podcast
Queremos Musicarte
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10. Set up a successful mLibrary
Overview
The librarian at the University is overloaded with work and feels the library is not the place it
should be and that students are not benefitting enough from it. He challenges you to set up a
committee of experts and establish a programme to turn the school library into a mobile
library.
Idea
Mobile learning, encourage reading anywhere, anytime
The Challenging Question
How can readers become mobile bookworms?
Guiding Questions
Read and analyse the challenge scenario, designing a mindmap
Adequately define the challenge you are facing
Identify what you know about the challenge you are up to
Identify which issues you do not know
Design a work plan to tackle the challenge
Gather and organise information
Analyse the gathered information
Develop activities, present and share the process and outcome.
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11. Guiding Activities
1. Design audiobooks.
2. Illustrate storybooks, design them, narrate them.
3. Disseminate mobile motivation for reading.
4. Compile mobile shelf-books, advertise the books of your life time.
5. Design a virtual environment to share your project.
6. Present your project to the world.
Guiding Resources
A Wall of Books
Plan Lector Móvil
Kuentalibros
World Book Day
VeoQuijote
Dickens
Digital Storytelling for Teachers
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12. Stories to Warm Hearts
Overview
World Book Day is approaching and the School Principal would like to organize a festival to
celebrate the day. He challenges you to set up a committee of experts to establish a
programme of activities to show the importance of storytelling at all times and seasons , to
make storytelling remind kids and teachers of winter nights curled around a warm hearth and
to link stories with national traditions; storytelling with intercultural alchemy.
Idea
Traditions, Storytelling, Stop Motion
The Challenging Question
Are local traditions being overcome by global ones?
Guiding Questions
Read and analyse the challenge scenario, designing a mindmap
Adequately define the challenge you are facing
Identify what you know about the challenge you are up to
Identify which issues you do not know
Design a work plan to tackle the challenge
Gather and organise information
Analyse the gathered information
Develop, present and share the process and outcome.
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13. Guiding Activities
1. Mindmap your traditional stories.
2. Turn traditional stories into digital stories.
3. Collaborate to design intercultural alchemy.
4. Illustrate, narrate, record, role play and learn with storytelling.
5. Storify your memories.
6. Augment the reality of stories to warm hearts.
7. Turn your community into an amazing auditorium.
8. Design a virtual environment to share your project.
9. Present your project to the world.
Guiding Resources
Digital Storytelling for Teachers at Pinterest
Collaborative Chain Stories
Scary Short Films
The Value of Wrinkles
O Apóstolo
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14. Toolkits in jars
Overview
The school ICT coordinator feels that the Primary kids have so much knowledge about
tools/apps/ 2.0 services that they should help other members of the educational community
with their digital skills, such as other students with less knowledge, parents or teachers. He
challenges you to set up a committee of experts to establish a programme and help others
with their digital skills in collaboration.
Idea
Tools, collaborative learning, creating tutorials
The Challenging Question
Can you help others to improve their digital skills?
Guiding Questions
Read and analyse the challenge scenario, designing a mindmap
Adequately define the challenge you are facing
Identify what you know about the challenge you are up to
Identify which issues you do not know
Design a work plan to tackle the challenge
Gather and organise information
Analyse the gathered information
Develop, present and share the process and outcome.
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15. Guiding Activities
1. Design tutorials about useful digital tools.
2. Choose and classify tools and design first aid kits.
3. Create a full 2.0 web menu with tools, resources, activities to practice.
4. Invite other Top Chefs to take part.
5. Design a virtual environment to share your project.
6. Present your project to the world.
Guiding Resources
The 30 goals challenge for educators
Video lessons
Educational Technology
ESL Teachers
Connected Learning
La cocina de las TIC
En la nube TIC
Docente 2.0
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16. Turn journalists into brave reporters
Overview
The University staff thinks that the institution is not well advertised in the press and that it is
not really well known and would like to improve their position in the media. They challenge
you to set up a committee of experts and establish a programme to let students become
digital reporters and help the University with their campaign in the media.
Idea
Journal, Digital Magazine, Collaboration, School News
The Challenging Question
Can we put our school in the press?
Guiding Questions
Read and analyse the challenge scenario, designing a mindmap
Adequately define the challenge you are facing
Identify what you know about the challenge you are up to
Identify which issues you do not know
Design a work plan to tackle the challenge
Gather and organise information
Analyse the gathered information
Develop, present and share the process and outcome.
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17. Guiding Activities
1. Organise a newspaper, magazine, radio station or TV channel.
2. Decide on sections, frequency, graphism.
3. News to publish: format, length, roles of reporters.
4. Multimedia content.
5. Design a virtual environment to share your project.
6. Present your project to the world.
Guiding Resources
The ESL Times
Dave’s ESL Cafe
TOPICS. Online Magazine for learners of English
ESL Partyland
Waves School Radio
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