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Project Information
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Project Author: Nelida Frontera <NelidaMFrontera@chicago.avenew.com>
Project Title: Animal Postcards Collection
Project Begin & End Dates: 2/01/00 to 4/01/00
Project Summary:
Students will send a comercially-bought postcard with a photograph of an
animal from their state/country to each of 50 participating schools. It
will have the name of the zoo, farm, acquarium, or animal shelter written
on it's back. Enjoy your collection!
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Project Details
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Project Level: Basic
Curriculum Area: Arts, Community Interest, Health and Physical Education,
History and Social Studies, Language, Mathematics, Science, Technology
Technologies Used: Email
Project Sponsor: no
Objectives:
Personal and Social Development
Students will interact with other children and familiar adults as they
prepare the postcards to be sent to other participating schools.
Language and Literacy
Students will participate in group activities during the duration of the
project, making comments and sharing information about the animals. Students
will listen stories told by their teachers about some of the animals
received. Students could make drawings or write about the animals received.
Mathematical Thinking
Very young students will use the concepts of one-to-one correspondence, more
than, less than, and equal to, all prerequisites for meaningful counting.
More advanced students can practice and show an interest in quantity and
number. They can count postcards, tally how many received by day or week,
graph postcards, classify the animals by name or sort the animals by mammals
or birds. Students could make patterns with the postcards
(horizontal-vertical-horizontal). Students can measure or verbally estimate
the size or area their whole collection will take on a wall when displayed.
For older primary students, this project will provide a real-world context
in which to base their computational experiences. For younger primary
students, the postcards can be used as non-standard units of measurement to
measure objects inside the classroom.
Scientific Thinking
Students could make a land/water/air mural and tape the postcards as these
are received. Students will seek answers to questions about the animals by
exploring the animals in a zoo, aquarium, animal hospital, or pet shop. A
guest could be brought to the class to share a pet from home. Children could
bring pet pictures from home that are similar to the ones sent by mail and
compare them.
Social Studies
Students will recognize how their physical characteristics are different
from those of animals. They will talk about people's jobs related to
animals, such as veterinarians, zoo keepers, pet shop owners, and farmers.
They could talk about programs watch on televisions or movies that feature
animals, and begin to form and understanding about how technology affect
their lives. Students will express beginning geographic thinking by looking
the locations of the other postcard-collecting friends on a class map.
Children could also use the Valentine's Holiday and postal office units and
integrate them with this project. Participants will become aware of
community resources available to help animals, and can look up the services
available by using a phone book. Students will be exposed to some basic
economic information, such as the need for money to buy stamps. They will
also get an idea about why we need rules, such as placing a stamp in the
upper right hand corner of the postcard.
The Arts
Students will participate in creative movement and dance by imitating how
animals move. They will listen to animal sounds and try to identify the
animals. Children will use a variety of art materials to express their new
knowledge about animals. The teacher can facilitate a dramatic
representation using animal characters within the classroom setting.
Children could dress up as an animal or make animal paper puppets to play at
different learning centers.
Physical Development
Students will use their large muscles to play animal-related games. Their
fine motor development will be enhanced by using eye-hand coordination to
peel and stick stamps to the postcards. Students can write their first name
to the postcard if they so desire and practice handwriting this way.
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Project Registration Information
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Project Email Address: nelidamfrontera@chicago.avenew.com
Registration Acceptance Dates: 1/20/00 to 3/15/00
Number of Classrooms: 50
Age Range: 5 to 10 years
Target Audience: Anyone
Project URL:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4616/projects/projects.html
Registration Instructions:
Please email Mrs. Frontera to be included on our mailing list. Send full
name, school name, postal address, grade you teach, and number of students.
The list will be updated every week with more participants, until we
reach100 schools. Once we have all of the schools needed, registration will
be closed.
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Project Contact Information
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Nelida Frontera - mailto:NelidaMFrontera@chicago.avenew.com
Bilingual Preschool Teacher - Wegner School
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4616
West Chicago, Illinois
US
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