Participating Schools
Jonesville Middle School, Jonesville, Virginia, USA - Cindy Nickodam
Woodmen-Roberts Elementary School, Colorado Springs, CO, Unitied States - Toni Olivieri-Barton
Hulstrom K-8, Northglenn, Colorado, United States - Laura Israelsen
Forest Ridge Academy, Schererville, Indiana, USA - Debbie Heinz, Jenny Stob
Project Manager: Julie Lindsay
Jonesville Middle School, Jonesville, Virginia, USA - Cindy Nickodam
Woodmen-Roberts Elementary School, Colorado Springs, CO, Unitied States - Toni Olivieri-Barton
Hulstrom K-8, Northglenn, Colorado, United States - Laura Israelsen
Forest Ridge Academy, Schererville, Indiana, USA - Debbie Heinz, Jenny Stob
Project Manager: Julie Lindsay
THEME: Environmental Issues
Essential questions we aim to answer:
- What are the similarities and differences among the environment around the world?
- How can we connect with each other through our commonalities?
- How does your geography, history and lifestyle of where you live impact your environment?
- What are essential solutions to researched global issues and how can we share these?
Digital Handshakes
All classes created short videos to introduce their class members.
Here is Woodmen-Roberts Elementary Handshake from Colorado Springs, CO.
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Miss Stob's Super Seven from Forest Ridge Academy, Schererville, IN, USA
Link embedded in wiki Mrs. Nickodam's 7th Graders from Jonesville, Virginia
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Click on the URLs to create the images of the grades
https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=2da81659b39e Mrs. Israelsen's 21st Century Learners from Mrs. Johnson's 5th Grade Class
Mrs. Israelsen's 21st Century Learners from Mrs. Gwinn's 5th Grade Class
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Research Work
Student Showcase
Click on each image to see the final team presentations created using Voicethread.
Teacher Admin.
Topic Ideas from Students:
- Fires - Toni Olivieri-Barton
- Flooding - Toni Olivieri-Barton
- Fracking - Laura Israelsen
- Air Pollution - Toni Olivieri-Barton
- Water Pollution - Debbie Heinz
- Reducing Waste - Laura Israelsen
- Eating Locally- Debbie Heinz
- Wildlife Conservation-Cindy Nickodam
- Farming with Chemicals-Cindy Nickodam
- How logging effects land - Debbie Heinz
- How coal mining effects land-Cindy Nickodam
- Droughts- Laura Israelsen