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- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students utilize different global representations: maps, gloves, & atlases, in an effort to research different geography of their pen pals home towns. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students use a pen pal template to correspond to a pen pal at another school site using appropriate communication skills. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students become pen pals from other countries and research their countries for information that help with their writing. This information is then sent to another student who is also portraying someone from another country. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students focus a writing piece for a specific purpose and audience. They are explained that pen pals may be people that they never meet because they live too far away or that they could be in another classroom just across town. Students are explained that having a pen pal is one way to practice written communications to a specific person. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students read a story about pen pals in the United States and retell the story to a partner. Using the internet, they complete a test over the story they read. They also write a essay related to a topic in "Adventures in Writing". They need to be familiar with technology based vocabulary and be able to open an internet window. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students write letters to pen pals from other countries around the world. They listen to the book "Felix and the Flying Suitcase Adventure," and write a three paragraph letter that includes a minimum of ten descriptive words to their selected pen pal. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students write an e-mail message about what they have been doing in their physical education class. They break in to groups of 3 or 4 students and use the teacher's e-mail account to send an e-mail to their Pen Pal. They then read posted e-mail replies from around the country. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students explore different spellings of the same words within the English language, as well as different words for the same thing with the international pen pal classroom. They become familiar with units of measure and time. Students use a ruler, measure the distance on a world map from your location to the country, province, and town of your international classroom pen pals. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students write and send an email to their Mountain View Elementary School pen pal. They will prewrite the email in the classroom and enter the lab to process the e-mail using the Netscape mail center. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies. Then they identify and interpret world cultures and civilizations, including an analysis of important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. Students also research through the Internet, various software programs and books the social, political, economic, cultural and geographical conditions of the pen pal's country. Full Review »
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