For+the+Teachers

This would be a good place to share lesson plan ideas, worksheets and resources we use over the course of the project. We could share our questions and concerns in the discussion area of this page. Anyone can start a new topic anytime.

toc =Breaking Down the Project=

Stage 1: Developing the Questions
Karen: The way I did this with my students is I started with referring back to the Ricky Site. We talked about how we had "virtually" been introduced to other Quebec schools through looking at the pictures and hearing their descriptions. We then focussed on the schools who had become involved in the first part of the project. We looked at the google maps and the pictures that had been posted. The kids noticed differences in some of the places and this started our discussion about different communities. This brought us to a discussion about what is a community. The kids said that it could be a place or a group of people. We went on the web and searched for the city of St. Jean's website and examined some of the elements on it. We made different categories (which are on the google doc) and I divided up the class into groups of 2-3 kids. I assigned each group a category and asked them to come up with a good question about their topic that if they asked a student in another community, they would get information. We discussed what made good questions(they decided a yes/no style question would not be very informative). I then typed the questions into google docs after they had finished. The whole process took about an hour.

Stage 2: Collecting Information From Other Schools: Getting Ready to Collaborate
Tools we could use to have the kids talk to each other
 * Skype
 * Live Classroom

Stage 3: Creating a Media Document
Some ideas of different documents we could create:
 * brochure
 * poster
 * wiki page
 * slideshow
 * book using Tikatok.com
 * creating a podcast
 * Voicethread