Virtual Pen Pals

Who are the students your students will communicate with (specific location, grade level)? The students that our students will be communicating with are third graders in Poltava, Ukraine. When would your students contact these other students (at what point in their project work)? Our students will contact these students three times during the school year. 1. While they are in the planning stages of their garden at the beginning of the school year 2. Halfway through the school year to report progress of their fruits and vegetables. 3. At the end of the school year once they have sold their fruits/vegetables at the farmers market to share how much money that they have raised for the No Kid Hungry organization. What kinds of questions would they ask each other and what kinds of information would they share? The kinds of questions that they will ask each other include: 1. What kinds of fruits/vegetables they will be growing 2. The progress of their fruits/vegetables' growth (plant height, quantity, quality, etc.) 3. How they are planning to sell their food (our classroom will be selling their harvest at a farmers' market) 4. How much money they raised to give to a charity (our classroom will be donating to No Kid Hungry) What will they do with the information they get from the other students? Our students will compare/contrast: 1. The types of fruits/vegetables that can be grown at our school and their school 2. Progress of the fruits/vegetables 3. The different ways to sell their harvest 4. The different charities that are being donated to They will then create a report/presentation stating what they learned through the growing, selling, and donating process at our school and comparing it to how they grew/sold/donated in Poltava, Ukraine.