Binding Communities Around the World
***a global Internet project***

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Project Details

Oak River Manitoba	Nain, Newfoundland	Uchucmarca Peru	Lelstad Netherlands	Edmonton Alberta
Busher Saudi Arabia	Ebiani Zaire	Para Hills Australia	Sorfjord Norway	Kapileswar India

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Category C - Resource Creation Project

Participation:  Global

Project dates:  09/05/2000   to   06/20/2001

Grade Level:  4

C.  Questions:
1.  Grade 4 students collaborate with communities in nine global regions and develop a resource site about each community.
2.  Timeline:
SEPT.   2000
Using the Manitoba Grade 4 Social Studies textbook, Communities Around the World
 - students, as a class, prepare and then individually upload research questions onto  their project disk and into folders  (questionnaire is as follows:)

 - Following the textbook and the Internet, students research each community,  starting with Nain, Labrador, and input data to their questionnaire
 - Email the grade 4 teacher in Nain and request participation.
 - Once the teacher has agreed to participate, we establish email partners.
 - Students email their completed questionnaire to their partner in Nain.
 - Group students for web development of each world community to be studied.
 - Teacher designs the home page and the "Nain" web designer group of students  designs the linked pages that will feature the research information formulated  about that community.

Each month the same format will be used for connecting with each communityto be studied.

Plans to maintain the Site:
The site is developed at our school and emailed to Rolling River School Division's computer department where it is posted onto the Web.
Each year the new group of students will study the same or comparable community in regions outlined in the curriculum, adding more information to the existing community at the project site or developing a site about the alternative community chosen.

3 a)  Objectives for student learning:
 -using Internet as a research tool and discovering its potential as a resource
 -web design and construction
 -digital imaging: scanner and camera
 -corresponding via email; setting up a personal account
 - research different communities around the world by
  a) partnering with actual members of that community using email
  b) sites about their community on the Internet
  c) material from the Textbook
 -to develop a supplement to the Grade 4 Manitoba textbook, Communities Around  Our World that is current, relevant and student directed and created

b)  Curriculum Outcomes:
 Social Studies - Because the project encompases the entire Grade 4 Social Studies curriculum, the outcomes would be the same:
 1.  Locating people and places around the world: map concepts, direction, scale coordinates, geographic terms, legends, locating natural, political and cultural features
 2.  World communities: situation, history, needs and wants, cooperation and conflict
 L.A. - comparing, analysing and formulating data
          - writing, editing and publishing
 ICT  -  word processing: keyboarding
          -   desktop publishing
          -  image software and hardware
          -  Internet: email, web design and development, research
 

5 a)  We will seek participation by locating, via the Internet, classrooms in each region listed below and send them a request for participation prepared by the class via email.
 1.  Nain, Labrador       2. Edmonton, Alberta      3.  Uchucmarca, Peru
 4.  Busher, Saudi Arabia     5. Kapileswar, India        6.  Sorfjord, Norway
            7.  Ebiani, Zaire                  8. Blue Gums, Australia    9.  Lelystad, Netherlands
These are the suggested locations from the textbook.  If there are no willing participants from these cities, we will find a class in an alternative community to exchange with.

b)  How will other classes be involved in your project?
 -by reviewing the information about their commuity that our class researched, editing, revising and returning it to our class
 -by offering to recipricate in the above activity
 -an invitation to to any class to submit community profiles they have done to be either added or linked to our project website

It is my hope to continue the project each year with a different group of students and to add to and expand on the information about each community in order to develop a very complete and comprehensive resource site.