Internet Pen Pals

Collaborate with another class (or school) and have your learners share ideas about their reading through the use of email. Perhaps you'll create a specific question or a few questions for writers to choose from. Not only will they...

Students write to a pen pal and learn about their lives. In this pen pal lesson, students learn about a person from another country. Students develop an understanding that they have many things in common with people from other parts of...

Sixth graders write e-mail messages to pen pals using a template file. In this pen pal instructional activity, 6th graders culminate a unit on writing friendly letters by designing a template using graphic art and a word processing...

Fifth graders research and write a pen pal letter about the geography of a Canadian town. Students create a script for a phone call with their pen pal and perform it with a friend for the class.

Students acquire a pen pal in a foreign country and write letters at least twice a month throughout the year to exchange with them. At the end of the year, they write an essay that compares one important difference and one important...

Explore Tucson. Navigate an online treasure hunt and then use Microsoft Word to write a persuasive letter to a pen pal. After developing a list of interesting places to visit in Tucson, teams identify three places that are so cool that...

In this language skills worksheet, students read an article on Pen Pal Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30 short...

Students read online information and identify relevant information about a particular dinosaur species, assume the personality of a specific dinosaur species, and write online "getting to know you" letters to other student-dinosaurs in...

Students participate in an intercultural E-mail exchange throughout a semester. They send newsletter to international penpals/keypals.

Third graders utilize different global representations: maps, gloves, & atlases, in an effort to research different geography of their pen pals home towns.