From: xuegx@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Holloway)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Projects for Special Ed Schools
Date: 18 Dec 1992 13:06:10 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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I'm aware that this is a moderated list and that it's
generally used for discussion.  Soozi (and others), I
hope it's appropriate to post the following....


 The Chatback Trust announces four projects for schools
 in the UK and abroad.  We particularly welcome schools
 or units for children with special needs.

 Projects will run from January 1993 to April 1993.  The
 following text is just a summary, for further
 information on these please write to the moderators or
 to the Director of Chatback, Tom Holloway (CAMPUS
 01:CLK001 or Internet t.holloway@warwick.ac.uk).

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 | REMEMBERING | | Moderator - Pat Davidson             |
 +-------------+ | CAMPUS 01:CLK002                     |
                 | Internet p.davidson@warwick.ac.uk    |
                 +--------------------------------------+

 This project is a wonderful way to draw in the senior
 members of every child's family. You might also ask
 grandmothers and grandfathers to come to your class to
 recall their school days and to share their adventures with
 your pupils.

 ACTIVITIES
 ONE   Write up notes on an interview with a senior citizen
       on a word processor and send them to REMEMBER.
 TWO   Find words which come from before 1950 and explain
       their meaning, or find words from those times which
       are no longer used.
 THREE Tell us about the books you have read which describe
       life in those years.
 FOUR  Write to Pat Davidson with questions about life as a
       school-child during the years of World War Two.

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 +--------------+ +-------------------------------------+
 | INVADERS AND | | Moderator - Mike Burleigh           |
 | SETTLERS     | | CAMPUS 01:CLK003                    |
 +--------------+ | Internet m.burleigh@warwick.ac.uk   |
                  +-------------------------------------+

 This cross-curriculum project will encourage exchanges with
 schools abroad and look at the origins of our language and
 our festivals. It will look at stories of the time of the
 Viking settlers, and also at the problems being experienced
 NOW by settlers from other countries.

 ACTIVITIES
 ONE   Contacts with schools abroad about common words in
       our language and theirs.
 TWO   Making models of Viking ships.
 THREE Finding out where some of our festivals come from.
 FOUR  Exchanging information about books you have read.
 FIVE  Modern settlers in Britain. Write about their life.

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 +---------------++-------------------------------------+
 | BRITISH STEEL || Moderator - Tom Holloway            |
 | YACHTS        || CAMPUS 01:CLK001                    |
 +---------------+| Internet t.holloway@warwick.ac.uk   |
                  +-------------------------------------+

 The Ten identical steel yachts which left Southampton on
 26th September 1992 in a race around the world are now
 around Cape Horn and on their way to Hobart, Tasmania.
 On February 13th they leave Hobart for the third stage
 which ends in Capetown.  You will be able to write to
 crew members on these boats and receive responses to your
 questions.  (Only nine left!  British Steel II was completely
 dismasted in a storm on 18th December, 2,000 miles from
 the nearest port).

 ACTIVITIES
 ONE   Geography/mapping. Plot the course of a yacht.
 TWO   Exchanges with crew members.
 THREE Imaginative writing. Write a 100-word MINI-SAGA.

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 +--------+        +------------------------------------+
 | RIVERS |        | Moderator - Nigel Palmer           |
 +--------+        | CAMPUS 01:TCD100411                |
                   | Internet n.palmer@warwick.ac.uk    |
                   +------------------------------------+

 Schools taking part will have a river or canal locally. The
 project can be used at any level, from simple descriptive
 writing to an investigation of water-borne life and the
 possible reasons for its absence.

 ACTIVITIES
 ----------
 ONE   Descriptive writing. A trip to the river.
 TWO   Report on wildlife, seen and unseen.
 THREE Report on pollution, water sampling.
 FOUR  Resources. Where water comes from, and goes to.
 FIVE  Imaginative writing. A short story.

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