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• If you are looking to participate in an easy and cute global project, that your students, school and parents will absolutely love, then this project is for you!!
• Are you in higher education and teaching pre-service teachers? They could contribute stories, specifically designed with subject area integration on their mind or practice their skills of storytelling as a teaching tool.

What is this project all about?

Teddy Bears Around The World started as a project with one school mascot called José,  The bear enjoyed roaming the world, getting to know new places and meeting interesting people.

This blog provides the space to hang out and communicate with different teddy bears around the world to hear more about their lives and adventures. This will allow our students to see each other’s countries, customs and traditions through the eyes of our “teddy bears” and open their horizons through a more global perspective.
The idea is to have an ongoing exchange (no deadlines, no pressure) to contribute stories, photographs, videos or podcasts.

These contributions can be from the teddy bears point of view or from the students’ point of view telling a story ABOUT their teddy bear. We could have seasonal posts or specific “story starters”, such as:

• … “Teddy” celebrates Thanksgiving in USA (other country specific holidays)
• … “Teddy” is going to the movies
• …  New Year’s Eve tradition
• … “Teddy” and his favorite foods
• … ”Teddy” looses his first tooth
• … “Teddy” watches TV
• … ”Teddy”’s favorite fairy tale
• … “Teddy” celebrates his birthday
• … Christmas trees around the world
• … Playgrounds around the world

If you are interested in hanging out with us, please contact me with information about your school and teddy bear and to receive a username to participate on this blog.

We have 10 bears around the world participating at this point and more signing up. We are looking for more teddies to contribute stories, pictures, videos and/or audio. This could be a great “creative writing” activity, geography, social studies,  “All about communities” lesson and global connections/awareness.

What do you need to participate?

• Contact me
• A stuffed bear (panda bear, ice bear, brown bear, black bear, etc.)
• A story or information about your geographic location to share
• Images, video or audio

Check out some of the latest posts from Teddy Bears Around the World

• A Birthday Party under the Sukkah
• This is the story of Jose, who helped save the Nature Park of Buenos Aires