Gr 1 Celebrate Reading!

I have 2 first-grade classrooms in Michigan that didn't get a chance to make a Read Around the Planet connection, and would love to connect to other first-grade classrooms to celebrate reading with books, writing, poetry, music, or something else!

For examples of possible connection sharing, see the Read Around the Planet website (http://www.twice.cc/read/)

Dates: ONLY 4 dates available at 1:00 pm EST - April 17th, April 24th, May 1st, and May 8th

Audience:Grade 1

Sign up method:Exploding Collaboration (Registration is through CAPSpace at http://projects.twice.cc

Outcomes:We expect learners in all classrooms to practice speaking and presenting to their peers, as well as share something they've either written, or a piece of writing they love in some creative way.Preparation Time Frame:You will need to connect and converse with our teachers prior to the connection to prepare your presentation and a 30-45 minute videoconference.Methods and Activities:Poetry, skits, reader's theater, presentations, etc. are all welcome for this connection. See the Read Around the Planet website for other suggestions.Responsibilities:Teachers will introduce classes to one another, and students will then present, with each classroom taking turns. A brief Q and A at the end of the sharing is encouraged.Agenda:5 min. Welcome and introductions. Each class shares their location and brief information about their school.
Visuals: Use the document camera or PowerPoint to share a few pictures of local interest.

30 min. Presentations. Each class shares a 15 minute demonstration and/or presentation on the assigned topic. Teachers should negotiate who will cover what to prevent duplication.
Visuals: Can be a live scientific experiment demonstration, iMovie of the experiment, or PowerPoint with digital pictures of the experiment/concept, posters with large letters.

15 min. Question and answer. Each class has prepared questions for the other on the content and generates questions while/after listening to the presentation. After the content questions, if time remains, students may enjoy asking each other questions about their respective locations and schools.

Ben Rimes
brimes@mattawanschools.org
Phone: 269-668-3361 ext 1554
Cell: 269-277-2949
MATTAWAN CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL

Gr 4-6 Global Student Awareness: Joseph Kony

Seeking 4th-8th grade classes to discuss violent crimes committed against children especially the transgressions of Joseph Kony of Uganda, Africa. 

Students should preview this 30 minute YouTube video prior to the conference to acquire needed background knowledge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

We would like students to be able to respond critically to a newsworthy current event by relating text to self. Our students will be developing persuasive posters to expand public awareness. Moreover, they will be drafting persuasive letters to government officials. Participating classes are welcome to share their most insightful persuasive letters and posters.

In addition, Mathematics can be incorporated into the lesson by calculating the volume of children impacted over the years by this tragedy


Friday, April 20, 2012 10:30am-11:30am EDT


Registration is done through the CAPSpace website at http://projects.twice.cc


Lynette Brown
lynettebrown@camden.k12.nj.us
Phone: 856-541-3812 ext.6
Cell: 856-541-3812 ext. 11228
H.B. Wilson

PreK, K, 1 Name the zoo or circus animal

I have several Pre-K classrooms interested in connecting with a Pre-K to 1st grade classroom for the following video conference idea. Each class will select 4-6 different zoo and circus animals to research. As students research their animal they would come up with verbal or written clues about the animal along with ways to act out how the animal moves or even the sounds they make. When classrooms connect for the video conference, groups of students will present their animal clues, movements and/or sounds for the other class to guess their animal. As each class guesses, they will then determine if the animal is a zoo animal, circus animal or could be both which will be visualized on a venn diagram that we will make available via a computer connected to our system. At the beginning of the video conference, classrooms can share some brief information about their school and the weather that day.


March 22nd - March 30th (date and time will be set up between connecting teachers)

Sign up method:

Exploding Collaboration (Register through CAPSpace at

http://projects.twice.cc

Annette Bruner annette.bruner@nn.k12.va.us DENBIGH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

Gr 1 Monster Match

One class will create a list of instructions on how to build a monster. The second class will create a list of instructions on how to build a monster. The two classes will exchange their instructions and create their monsters. The two classes will then show each other what they created and determine if they followed the instructions correctly.


Between April 2 and 13 from 9:00-11:30 AKSD


Exploding Collaboration - Must be signed up through CAPSpace at http://projects.twice.cc

Methods and Activities:	Each class will share their monsters and what they found easy to follow in the instructions and what they thought was confusing.
Responsibilities:	The teachers will test the equipment, model how to write instructions, help their class create instructions for a monster, exchange instructions with the other teacher, help their students create the monster, and polycom with the second class. The students will all be involved in creating instructions for a monster and creating a monster while following the other class's instructions.
Agenda:	5 min. Welcome and introductions. Each class shares their location and brief information about their school. Visuals: Use the document camera or PowerPoint to share a few pictures of local interest. 5 min. Question and answer. Each class has prepared questions for the other on their respective locations and schools. 15 min. Interaction. Take turns sharing their monsters. 5 min. Compare and contrast their monsters.

Gr 3-5 Calling All Communities

Wouldn't it be nice for students to learn about communities all over the world? For this collaboration students will share with each other facts and information about their community. 


Some topics to discuss would be:
1. Where your community is located
2. When was it established
3. Climate
4. Landforms/Plants/Animals/Region
5. Places of Interest
6. Things to for fun.

If you are interested please email me at mredle@stmatthewparish.net

Dates:

March 2012

Meghan Redle mmr014@msn.com St. Matthew Parish School

Gr 1 State Knowledge:

We do a huge Texas unit in late February and early March.  We would like to find a 1st grade class in another state that we can share information and pictures.  Students can share the state motto, state flag, state flower, regions,  weather, etc.  Students could also write about what they learned about the other state.  It would be fun to exchange state postcards before the event. We would like to video conference on March 6th.


Trisha Goins
trisha.goins@gcisd.net
Phone: 817-251-5770
TIMBERLINE EL

Taken from CAPSpace at http://projects.twice.cc

Gr 4-5 The Great Race Project

Columbiana County ESC and NCOESC in Ohio would like to invite 4th and 5th grade students to participate in the 6th annual “Great Race” program. Over the last 5 years classrooms from around the United States have raced across the country learning geography, social studies, science and math. Each year has been a new race. This years Great Race theme since it is an election year is the “Presidential Run” students will race from Washington DC to Honolulu, Hawaii 

Here is a brief overview of the project. Fourth and fifth grade classrooms from around the nation will race from Washington DC to Hawaii. Each class will be a team and the team that gets there the quickest, spending least amount of money, stopping at all the cultural and geographically historical places given to them will be the winners. This is a 21st Century Adventure!

There will be three videoconferences. The first will be the kick off of the race on Wednesday, Feb 22nd. During this connection students and teachers will learn the rules of the race and what to expect. There will be a midpoint connection and then a final connection to announce the winner in early May. 

Please visit the website to see examples of past races at http://pd.ncoesc.org/greatrace/ 

Deadline to sign up is February 17th.

For more information please call (216-346-2651) or email kmoore@ccesc.k12.oh.us 

3rd Grade Simple Machines-Rube Goldberg

A third grade classroom in Upstate NY is looking for a distance learning partner to share in their culminating activity to a Simple Machines unit. Within their home classroom, students will be drawing a Rube Goldberg inspired invention, which is to include the specific steps of how it works. We hope to type the steps to inventions into Google Documents for a partner to view. Our hope is that the long distance partner would access Google Documents to access the written steps, have a chance to type in the document to ask any questions about steps that are unclear, and then attempt to draw the machine that they think matches the steps they were given. After online feedback happens, students would complete the drawing in their own classroom before classrooms meet up via a long distance connection. Students from one classroom would show their original drawing and see if it matches the drawing the partnering student came up with from their directions. One or both classrooms could complete original drawings and steps.


Feb. 20th-March 23rd

Preparation Time Frame:	3-4 weeks
Responsibilities:	Google Documents (Rube Goldberg drawing steps) to be uploaded between Feb. 20 - March 2. Google Documents feedback/questions to be completed by March 9. One time connection for sharing drawings to happen between March 16 - March 23

Alicia Mills
amills@svecsd.org
Phone: 607-589-7110
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN ES

This event in an exploding collaboration on the CAPSpace website. NORT2H teachers can contact Paul Hieronymus for assistance or join CAPSpace at http://projects.twice.cc

K-5 Winter Weather Share

Inspired by the schools in San Antonio who want to hear about winter weather, I have several classrooms in snowy Michigan that would love to share their winter weather, and hear about others' weather... especially those with different weather from us.


January 23-February 17, 9 AM-3 PM EST

Sign up method:	Exploding Collaboration
Grades:K,1,2,3,4,5

Amanda Nichols
aknichols@clarkston.k12.mi.us
Phone: 2486235462
Clarkston Community Schools

This is an exploding collaboration that must be registered through CAPSpace. NORT2H teachers interested in participating should contact Paul Hieronymus for assistance or register for CAPSpace (It's Free!)

Gr 3-8 Eleanor Roosevelt her life and work ( discussion and Game Show with prizes!)

We will provide your class with a 30-45 minute informative discussion about Eleanor Roosevelt's life. Students will see the paintings we made of her as well as the house we made (out of pizza boxes.) Students will learn about her life and then particpate in a fun and interactive game show (with prizes!) Please visit the web site we created about this project for more information, videos, movies, games and links.
http://lakelandschools.us/do/lbrandon/Eleanor_Roosevelt/Eleanor_Roosevelt_Project.html

We will provide your class with an infomative discussion about Eleanor Roosevelt's life. A fun interactive game show follows the discssion. 
After the game show students can have time to talk and ask questions. 


Michael Cerniglia
mcerniglia@lakelandschools.org
LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MS

Update is from CAPSpace at http://projects.twice.cc

Gr 2-4 Winter Weather Share

Would you like to connect with a classroom from the South Central Texas to compare and contrast the winter weather? During this videoconference opportunity, your class will be matched up with a class from Comal ISD (near San Antonio) for a 30-45 minute videoconference in which both sides will present what winter is like in each region. Afterwards, the students will be able to ask each other questions about the area in which they live. 

Comal ISD has 11 classes ranging from grades 2-4 that are ready to connect with you. To read more about it access this link: http://comal-isd-distance-learning.wikispaces.com/Weather+Collaboration

Please email distancelearning@comalisd.org if you would like to be matched up with one of our classes. In the email, please let us know dates and times that you prefer

Dates:

January 15th - February 29th

Melonie
melonie.gonzales@comalisd.org
COMAL ISD

Penpal( Curriculum project )Grade 3,4,5,6,

We want to have a new partner school outside Ghana to share our new curricular projects for 2011/12 and 2012/13 academic year.Basically, most of the projects will be base of letter writing as we want to inprove our children ability in reading and writing. All the letters will be mailing service.There will also be exchange of culture as we have video to share with with our partner, the way of life in Ghana. Write back to check the curriclar plan for the academic year 2011/12 and 2012/13.
Three teachers have been choose for this project.


January 2012 - August 2013


ALFRED KWAME MENSAH
Education: Teacher
JOHN WESLEY INC
Education: Elementary
AGONA ASHANTI, ASHANTI
Ghana
Phone: 00233 244 813310
alfredisco@popstar.com

Gr 5-6 Chalk Art using Bill Peet Literature

We would like to connect with a school to present art creations made by our 6th grade classes with local chalk artist, Rachel Browning. Our students will be focusing their art efforts on The Wump World by Bill Peet. It is advised that your class become familiar with this book before the connection. Local chalk artist Rachel Browning will be teaching our students the importance of saving the environment using chalk as the medium. Students will focus on one environmental issue and depict the world through chalk artistry, both before and after the problem is solved. We invite you to connect with us to see their finalized art projects and listen to the narratives they have written about their drawings. Ms. Browning, chalk artist, will also be present at this connection. This connection is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Local Capacity Building Program, administered in Jefferson, Leis, and St. Lawrence counties by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council.


May 10 and 11 from 12:30-1:30 EST


Grades 5-6


Registration is through CAPSpace http://projects.twice.cc 


Direct link -http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=1535

Gr. K Jobs People Do Riddles

I have several Pre-K classrooms located in Newport News, VA looking to connect with other Pre-K or Kindergarten classrooms during the time frame of Wednesday, February 1st – Friday, February 10th on the following project. 

Each classroom will select 7 – 9 jobs, with a total of 14-18 jobs represented in the project. Each classroom will create riddles for the jobs they selected. During the video conference, students in each class would be grouped so 2 – 3 students present a riddle and visual clues. The collaborating class will try to guess the job. 

When classes connect, they can begin the video conference with sharing where they are located and also share information about their school and/or weather outside. Classes can also share a song with each other. 

Please let me know if you are interested in participating with one of the Pre-K classrooms I work with and I’ll connect you via email with a teacher. 

We use a polycom set-up using IP address for our connections. If you are interested let me know and I can match a teacher with a request.

Annette Bruner annette.bruner@nn.k12.va.us DENBIGH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER Post is from CAPSpace http://projects.twice.cc

2nd Grade Pen Pals

A 2nd grade class in upstate New York would like to create a Pen Pal project where students would be able to learn the proper way to write and address letters. We would like to be able to actually mail letters to some friends across the US. This doesn't have to be a continual project and we could connect via video conference in order for students to meet face-to-face. Each class can just write one letter to send or they can continue to communicate. We are a school in NY so we are looking for collaborators as far away as possible.


To participate please email: kpeavey@madisoncentralny.org

Kurt Peavey
kpeavey@madisoncentralny.org
Phone: 315-893-1878 x285
MADISON CENTRAL SCHOOL

Take from Capspace at http://projects.twice.cc

Gr 4-5 Global Awareness

I will be reading the book, "The Green Book" with my students in the Spring and would love to read it with another classroom. There are many projects to research and develop as part of comprehending the book, but I am mainly interested in learning about how migrations effect the world and its population.

March 2012 - May 2012

Heather Phillips
Education: Teacher
Crestline Elementary School
Education: K-12 School
Mt. Brook, AL
United States
Phone: (205) 871-8126 ext. 7339
phillipsh@mtnbrook.k12.al.us

Taken from the CILC Database at www.cilc.org

Gr1 Shared Digital Storytelling

I am looking for 1st grade classes that are willing to help us create digital stories.
My first grade students will create the beginning, another class will create the middle, and a third class will create the end of the story.


Each student will draw a digital picture and record their voice telling their part of their story.
The teachers will then send the story on to the next class where their students will add their piece of the story.
This will be done one more time to add the ending until there is a complete story.
Students can then meet and share their stories and experiences with the classes.

Any digital drawing program that can export and image will work; the same is true with the voice recording. I can be help the schools decide programs to use if needed. 


February and May 2012


Arielle Goldstein
agoldstein@watchungschools.us
Phone: 908 755 8184
Bayberry Elementary

Gr 4-8 African American History Quest

We would like to collaborate with a school outside the state of Texas to learn more about African Americans who have made significant contributions to your communities. We would like to do this as a "Guess Who?" type activity where students give clues and give the other school an opportunity to guess who the person is that is being described. We could also create a jeopardy game for trivia questions, or showcase our creative talents with the collaborating school(s).

February, 2012

Rachelle Wooten
Education: Media/Technology Specialist
Fort Bend ISD
Education: K-12 School
Sugar Land, TX
United States
Phone: (281) 634-9875
rachelle.wooten@fortbend.k12.tx.us

Taken from the CILC database www.cilc.org

4th Grade pen pal

I have a class of 17 here in Maine that would like to type/print and snail mail a partner class 1x a month then meet via videoconference sometime in March as an informal chat, and possibly again in May to present projects to each other.


Update from CAPSpace


Tracy Hayslip
thayslip@rsu20.org
Phone: 201 712 0835
Cell: 207 712 0835
RSU20

Gr K-5 Snowman Exchange

Join other classrooms for a Snowman Exchange via Videoconference! Students practice descriptive writing, geometry, teamwork, following directions, and presentation skills.

Hilliard City Schools, Columbus, Ohio, is looking to extend the Snowman Exchange collaboration project into 2012. We are looking for other classroom teachers who would be willing to pair up with classroom teachers from our school district. PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR GRADE LEVEL AND DATE/TIME YOU ARE AVAILABLE FOR THIS COLLABORATION! This will make it easier for us to partner with you.

You will be partnered with another class around the same grade level (if available). Each class will create their own unique snowman and write step-by-step instructions how they created it. Then partners will exchange instructions via email and create a second snowman based on their partner's instructions. Then during January 3 – February 16, classes will connect over videoconference (H.323) and share their snowman. The classes will also share about their school and community and be able to ask questions of the partner class.

This project is like the Monster Exchange but with the winter theme.

Between January 3 and February 16, 2012 from 9:30 am - 2:30 pm (EST)

Sign up method:	Exploding Collaboration on CAPSpace
Grades:	PreK, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Subjects:	Fine Arts, Language Arts/English, Mathematics, Social Studies/History, Technology/Information Science
Preparation Time Frame:	Time Frame: 2 days (1 day for snowman creation and writing instructions, then 1 day for creating partner snowman and videoconferencing)
Methods and Activities:	Teachers will need to allow enough class time to create a class snowman and write instructions. Teachers will also need to email instructions to partner teacher in a timely manner. Then create the second snowman. It is important that you communicate effectively with partner teacher to ensure date/time of connection. Students can work as a group or in small groups to create snowman and write directions. Duties may be given to students to make sure everyone is involved. Class sets of snowman may be created, but this will be very time consuming during the sharing portion of the videoconference, so selecting 1-3 of the class favorite snowmen is more appropriate.
Responsibilities:	Teachers - 1. Will correspond via email with the collaborating teacher to discuss timeframe for the activity. 2. Work with his/her own students to create a class snowman. 3. Work with his/her own students to write a set of directions for how to create their class snowman. 4. Exchange instructions/directions with the collaborating teacher. 5. Work with his/her own students to create the collaborating class's snowman based upon the instructions emailed to them. 6. Create a short presentation about your school/community to share with the collaborating class. 7. Connect via videoconference and share Snowmen with one another.
Agenda:	Agenda: Each class will: 1. Create a class Snowman 2. Write instructions 3. Exchange instructions (email) 4. Create second class Snowman 5. Create a short presentation about your school/community (may use doc cams or computers if needed) 6. Connect via videoconference and share Snowmen 7. At the end, a Question/Answer session is always recommended by taking turns.