6 innovative scenarios for “Arabic” projects for eighth-graders in the second semester

Public and private school administrations that implement the Ministry of Education’s curriculum have announced the details of an integrated bank of learning scenarios and project-based assessment in the Arabic language subject for eighth grade students during the second semester of the 2025-2026 academic year, in a step aimed at developing educational practices and enhancing students’ linguistic and intellectual skills.

Support learning with projects
According to the project-based learning document, which Emirates Today reviewed, the bank includes six educational scenarios designed to support active learning, and improve the quality of writing, research, and oral presentation, through topics closely related to students’ lives, and affecting issues of society, technology, and health.

Linguistic and skill learning outcomes
The content of the scenarios focuses on enhancing advanced linguistic and skill learning outcomes, most notably: writing coherent texts that reflect a clear point of view supported by evidence, logic, and a solid conclusion, using transitional phrases to improve the cohesion of paragraphs, and relying on quotations, the opinions of specialists, comparisons, and statistics. It also attaches importance to employing note-taking, planning, highlighting, and summarizing strategies to organize drafts before producing them in their final form.

Developing thinking and presentation skills
The bank includes developing problem-solving skills, proposing solutions based on read information, and writing organized research reports that include a research question, a central idea, evidence, examples, and a list of sources and references. It also includes training students to deliver persuasive oral presentations that take into account clarity of voice, intonation, timing of speech, and visual communication, while employing multimedia and documenting references.

Contemporary topical themes
The scenarios came within specific thematic themes, including mental health and psychological well-being, technology and its impact on future jobs, giving and social responsibility, which enhances students’ awareness of contemporary issues and encourages them to think critically.

Research and applied projects
The six scenarios constitute a starting point for research and applied projects within the school, the most prominent of which is the “For Better Mental Health” project, which discusses youth pressures and their impact on focus, motivation and happiness, and calls on students to explore mental health challenges in the school environment, collect the opinions of their colleagues, and design supportive solutions.

Promoting mental and physical balance
The “Your Mind and Body are One Team” project also presents the relationship between psychological state and physical health, such as headaches and stomach pains during exam periods, and tasks students with researching and proposing solutions that contribute to achieving a balance between the two sides.

Technology between challenge and opportunity
The project “Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Loss or Opportunity?” A model of a store that replaced some of its employees with robots, self-checkout screens, and delivery planes, with the resulting loss of jobs. It poses a pivotal question about how to benefit from technology without harming job opportunities, and transforming challenges into new opportunities.

Developing creative thinking
In the “Technology and Creative Thinking Skills” project, students discuss the impact of excessive reliance on digital tools and artificial intelligence in creativity and analysis, while raising the problem of the balance between employing technology and preserving mental and human skills.

Citizenship and community giving
The “Serving My Homeland… Responsibility and Pride” project also discusses the varying perceptions of students about national service between considering it a difficult commitment or an opportunity for learning and discipline, and calls for the creation of initiatives that enhance positive awareness and turn it into an experience with a societal impact.

Responsibility in the digital age
The bank concludes with the “Our Responsibility in the Digital Age” project, which addresses the weak digital presence of school community initiatives despite the heavy use of the Internet by students, and tasks teams with analyzing the causes and innovating solutions that make the digital space a platform for giving and positive influence.

This trend reflects the keenness of educational institutions to employ the Arabic language as an effective tool for thinking, research and communication, and to link its learning to the issues of reality and the requirements of the future.