THE WAY WE ARE: A Global Learning Project
Our 3rd grade classes, in Granville, NY are learning about communities around the world. They are participating in an email exchange project to learn about the similarities and differences between themselves and students of similar age living in other countries. Through their emails, students compare their hobbies, pastimes, favorites, families, homes, schools, cultures, details of their daily lives, and as well as, their environments, including the geography, flora and fauna.
Learning Through Various Technologies
This year we are exchanging emails with students from Mexico, England, and Australia. In addition to exhanging emails, we will exchange photographs, as well as video and audio recordings by email. I hope to have our students work together with the students from the participating countries on a wiki page to share what we are learning about how we are the same and how we are different. I also hope to have students exchange some sort of hand-made keepsake such as a bookmark by snail mail.
Sharing and Learning Across the Globe!
The purpose of this wiki page is to show our location on a map, and to share photographs and information about our hometown with students around the world. It is also a space where all the participating students can work together on a common wiki web page to share what they have learned about themselves and their ePals, and reflect on the world in which they live.
Look! Our ePals in New Zealand had Wacky Hair Day just like us!
New Zealand Exchange
Six years ago we had ePals from New Zealand. They recorded a Maori song and e-mailed it to us. The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand. Each student also recorded an audio message for their ePals in Granville to share with us what they learned about how we are the same and how we are different. You can listen to them on the Messages from New Zealand page.
As a part of the project, the students also created and exchanged beautiful bookmarks with drawings celebrating various aspects of our cultures.
The Inspiration
This wiki space was inspired by an ePals project called The Way We Are.
Where in the world is Granville, New York?
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