TEACHING ARTS AND TRADES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HARMONY

• Play a little melody with someone else on your favorite musical instruments.
• Using colors that harmonize best, paint your favorite subject (e.g. nature, family, animals, etc.)
• Using any material you want, make 3 artistic representations of harmony in three spheres of life (e.g. harmonious family, harmony in nature, harmonious life of a person).
• Study ancient Greek sculpture; make your own sculpture as a representation of this style.
• Create a piece of music that would be a combination of eastern and western styles that would be considered harmonious in different time periods.
• Make a computer-aided presentation on the ideals of male and female beauty represented in different time periods and in different cultures.
  
• Make an extensive research project on the concept of harmony in different arts throughout the history of humanity; choose one type of arts (painting, for example) and make an art project to show its evolution.

• Decorate your room to harmonize it; freely choosing materials. Explain what you’ve done & why.
• Create a home for an animal that could bring more harmony to the area where you live.
• Make a set of kitchenware using harmonious shapes, patterns, and materials.
• Make an interior design project to harmonize a space (your home, somebody else’s place).
• Make three sets of clothes that would each be appropriate / harmonious for different life situations (e.g. working in the garden, cocktail party, etc.)
• Research what is considered to be a harmonious space in your country, compare this concept with those in other countries; plan a culture-oriented recreation zone that reflects harmony.
• Plan and build a house or community space applying Feng Shui, Vastu, and other approaches for harmonious space creation. Keep in mind the location and materials used, as well as the interior and exterior spaces.

TEACHING ENGLISH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HARMONY

• Think of 10-15 words that represent harmony to you; make riddles for 5 of them so that others can guess what you’ve written.
• Make 5-7 photos that represent your understanding of harmony; make a speech describing and explaining how the concept of harmony is represented in each picture.
• What makes harmonious text? Find some examples and present a sample of harmonious text to the group.
• Write a poem / story as a representation of harmony on all levels of language: melodious sounds, vocabulary which would be in agreement with the purpose, target audience, main and secondary themes, etc., written coherently with appropriate cohesive elements.
• Research the etymology, denotative and connotative meanings, stylistic and contextual use of the word “harmony”; collect data on all possible aspects of “harmony” and prepare 5 texts in 5 different styles for this topic (e.g. newspaper style, scientific style, short story, etc.).
• Write a script for a theatrical performance that would be based on allusions to 5-10 literature works of different time periods and styles devoted to the topic of harmony in its various expressions.
• Study the literature process in your country, define the features that make the writings of each period well-balanced and write a thesis-level paper on the structure and evolution of the concept of harmony throughout the history of the literature process.

TEACHING HEALTH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HARMONY

• Create a way to put your body and mind in a harmonious state; teach others to do it.
• Note what types of environments and conditions make you feel the most balanced and fulfilled.
• Plan your week to harmoniously care for your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
• Create a fun program for harmonious development of all groups of muscles and practice it weekly.
• Make a project of building and strengthening bonds with people in all areas of your life.
• Find 5-7 bright examples of harmoniously developed people in history and the traits / characteristics / habits / life style / etc. that aided them in aligning with themselves, others, the planet, etc.
• Create a documentary / thesis /e-course on different ways to balance body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

TEACHING MATH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HARMONY

• Compare 2D and 3D shapes to explore their symmetry/asymmetry and how they represent harmony.
• Describe 10 mathematical patterns that you feel represent harmony and explain/justify your choices.
• Adjust two-variable equations to create symmetric versions across the axes or an arbitrary line of reflection.
• Explore symmetry and similarity of geometric figures by utilizing reflections, rotations, and translations.
• Explore the pure and real-life applications of beautiful mathematical constants (phi, pi, e, i, etc).
• Use the harmonic series and variations (alternating, p-series, etc) to explore convergence/divergence tests.
• Use the harmonic series and variations to develop proofs in real analysis (convergence, sequences, limits, etc)

TEACHING SCIENCE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HARMONY

• Describe how different species live in harmony with their habitat.
• Look at 3-5 different plants and animals from the viewpoint of the harmony of their shapes / forms / bodies; describe the harmonious composition in each case.
• Grow a harmonious plant taking into consideration all necessary aspects.
• Compare the relationships of people with animals in different time periods and different countries; make a report on what your idea of a harmonious relationship is and the factors that make them so.
• Compare 3-5 ecosystems, analyze the connections between living organisms and make a presentation explaining what you feel brings about harmony.
• Conduct extensive research on the lives of 5 different families of living creatures (mammals / birds / fish) – e.g. wolves, ants, swallows, etc. and make a presentation on features that are similar for them. Compare these features to that of the average humans life and features and make recommendations of what would be good for humans to learn from animals.
• Simulate a model of Earth without people, explain how nature self-regulates everything; create a model of harmonious coexistence of people and the world.

• Find 5 examples of the combination of opposite physical materials that brings harmony in some way (e.g. hard nails cover soft fingers for protection, etc).
• List 5-10 examples of energy transformations that harmonize your environment (e.g. the energy of light turns into the energy of warmth, etc.)
• Figure out the balance of chemical elements for different types of diets (e.g. high carbohydrate diet, high fat diet, high protein diet)
• Compare the proportions of the human body and 3-5 animal bodies and evaluate the harmony of the human body in terms of structures and functions.
• Prepare 10-15 mixtures and solutions that would be applicable in 3 spheres of your life: e.g. household, gardening, and other; explain chemical bonds due to which the elements are harmoniously connected.
• Think of 5-10 reactions for chemical equilibrium demonstration and their application.
• Create an apparatus based on harmonious combination of particles which could be applied in everyday life.

• Create a project representing the harmony of the water life cycle on Earth.
• Interview 5 very different people to find the top 5 factors in nature that bring harmony to Earth.
• Study different cycles of planet Earth to determine how harmony is preserved (e.g. during the day the sun heats the earth, at night the moon cools it down, etc.)
• Study reasons for volcanic eruptions, floods, and other natural disasters and make suggestions of what creates harmony in and on the earth.
• Study and share the harmonies that occur in the rock cycle.
• Compare 5-10 different climatic zones according to harmonious characteristics for that climate:
  the ideal amount of sunshine, rain, barometric pressure, the plants and animals, etc.
• Study the evolution of life on the Earth; determine what factors are key to keep balance in the changing world? What changes in each period?

TEACHING SOCIAL SCIENCES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HARMONY

• Find 3 harmonious places in your immediate environment and 3 other places on Earth that are also harmonious; what makes them so?
• Ask 10 people for advice about what helps them to be in a harmonious state of mind; then, make a list of 10 things for yourself to practice within the next week and practice them.
• Organize your monthly budget in the way that would bring more harmony into your life.
• Study political regimes in different countries; which one(s) are bringing the most harmony and why?
• Conduct research on harmonious civilizations and make conclusions about what made them successful.
• Do research on harmonious communities and bring some of the aspects in to your community.
• Write a research paper on levels of internal psychological/spiritual harmony and their realization.

• Think of 5-7 pairs of opposites which combine to bring about harmony (e.g. day and night, male and female); make sentences to describe them.
• Invent a game for describing harmonious objects, things, phenomena, etc. for at least 2 players.
• Brainstorm as many derivatives of the word “harmony” as you can using dictionaries. Add them to a list and write a short story that uses these words in their fullest expression.
• Think of 15+ words you associate with harmony; make a word puzzle with them as the answers.
• Make a word project using harmonious combinations of words belonging to different parts of speech.
• Write a story/tale about the combination of opposites uniting for harmonious creation.
• Prepare a magazine or newspaper article devoted to the topic of “harmony” in different spheres of life.

TEACHING TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HARMONY

• Find, install, and use an application that explains and teaches harmony at your educational level.
• Find and add audio to an existing video, visual creation, or inspirational spoken word to add to or maintain its’ harmony.
• Use audio-editing software to play with creating and mixing your own audio tracks.
• Create an inspirational video to encourage world harmony and a promotion strategy for public release.
• Explore how object-oriented programming/design bridges the gap between software and the real world.
• Program an adapter to facilitate communication between software applications, languages, platforms, etc.
• Program an application that analyzes large data sets to find and report significant/relevant patterns.

• Explore associated and dissociated states of consciousness and how you can create harmony between them.
• Brainstorm 5 innovative ways to change your environment or routine to create more harmony in your life.
• Compare Qwerty vs Dvorak and how they each represent harmony in typing, technology, and society.
• Compare typical capitalistic vs open-source organizations/outcomes and how they each represent harmony.
• Explore, explain, and defend 7 creative innovations that you believe have created harmony in some way.
• Research and report on how biomimicry can be seen as harmony in action; then create a new example.
• Design and defend a new model (societal, cultural, or business) that is based on harmony in every single way.

TEACHING VALUES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HARMONY

• Share something you find difficult to talk about to bring about more harmony in a relationship.
• Find or create 5 practices or pieces of advice for bringing harmony into your life and the life of others.
• Apologize and/or practice forgiveness anywhere you have not and journal the results.
• Make a shareable project about interconnectedness as an example of harmony in its different expressions.
• Survey & interview others and prepare a presentation/story/documentary about love uniting people with differences.
• Research top values and attributes that contribute to people currently living harmoniously. Find out how they achieve this and prepare a method to share your findings.
• Find 5-10 bright examples in the history of mankind of the people who harmonized the life around them and prepare a way to share your findings and get others to apply it (a website, online course, ebook, etc)