Name: Amy Christensen

Level: Preschool/Kindergarten

Grade: Social Studies

    Students will be communicating with another classroom in a different state in the US using the ePals site http://www.epals.com/#!/main.   First, the class will come together and develop questions that they want to ask students in the other class about how they use their community helpers and why they are important to us.  Community helpers can be anyone from nurses, doctors, teachers, police officers, paramedics, firefighters etc.  The purpose is for the two classrooms to collaborate on the importance of these people in our community and to understand how they help us.  This activity will be used to supplement a community helpers unit the class will be working on over several weeks.  

    Each week a different community helper will be highlighted and each class will develop questions to ask the other class on either their own personal experiences with the community helper or how they may be more specifically used in their own community.  As a class, we will develop a video to send with our class discussion every week. Each class will come up with three questions to ask the other class.  Then, students will have opportunities to answer the questions and have a discussion on the importance of doctors, nurses, teachers, firefighters in our communities.

Standards:

ISTE-NETS

PK-2 Standards

#3  Engage in learning activities with learners from multiple cultures through email and other electronic means.

The class will be communicating with a class in another state, through video and email correspondence.

#4  In a collaborative work group, use a variety of technologies to produce a digital presentation or product in a curriculum area.  

The standard is represented in the class creating a video of themselves asking questions for the other class and then answering the questions the other class asked.