Welcome to Portals Projects! Each week we share projects that foster community building, creative thinking, problem-solving and character development. Invite your student(s) to pick a project that interests them to work on for a day or a week. Encourage them to share their plans, products or performances with the Portals community so we can all celebrate and grow together.
Week 10 - Faithfulness
Proverbs 3:3 Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you.
Tie them around your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Service Stories
Get involved by hosting or participating in a Veteran’s Day event / activity in your community and find a creative way to share a Veteran’s story and add it to the Portals Forum or Seesaw - photo or item collage, interview, picture book, play script, superhero comic, etc.
A Million Thanks
Write a letter of appreciation to someone serving our nation right now and send it to them through A Million Thanks. Let them know their faithfulness and loyalty in serving is not unnoticed.
Faithful Friends Build Us Up (Destination Imagination)
Challenge: Create the tallest freestanding tower possible by challenging your friends through text or email.
Time: You and your online team of friends will have unlimited time to use your imagination to build the tallest tower possible.
Setup:
1st Person: Build the tallest freestanding tower possible using only one sheet of paper and 2 mailing labels (or 3 inches of tape). After building the tower, photograph the tower with a yardstick to show the height. Send the photo to a friend, along with a copy of this challenge, to have them add to the height.
2nd Person: Build the same tower that the first person built (one sheet of paper and 2 mailing labels or 3 inches of tape) and then add to the height using one sheet of paper and 2 mailing labels (or 3 inches of tape). After building the tower, photograph the tower with a yardstick to show the height. Send the photo to a friend, along with a copy of this challenge, to have them add to the height.
3rd Person: Build the same tower that the second person built and then add to the height using one sheet of paper and 2 mailing labels (or 3 inches of tape). After building the tower, photograph the tower with a yardstick to show the height. Send the photo to a friend, along with a copy of this challenge, to have them add to the height.
4th, 5th, 6th or More Persons: Keep building, photographing, and challenging a friend until the tower is too tall to replicate.
Only have one friend willing to take on the Tower Challenge with you? Build and send the photos back and forth between the two of you until one of you can no longer get a new tower to stand up.
Faithful to Freedom
I know our country isn’t perfect, but I want to honor the people who have served our country. Is it okay to participate in patriotic activities? Why or why not?
Work to Eat
Imagine you are an explorer and you have discovered a new land. You and your team have been taken in by a group of natives. You decide to spend the day observing the different kinds of work that these people do and learning one of the tasks so that you can be helpful to them. Write a how-to or make a how-to video of one of the daily tasks done in this new land. It can be as realistic or fantastical as you want.
Submit your project
Email your pictures, videos, links to Portals Hub Support. Please call or email hub support if you need help submitting.
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