From: Helen.Sternheim@f109.n321.z1.fidonet.org (Helen Sternheim)
Newsgroups: k12.sys.projects
Subject: Channel Assignments
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 21:06:26 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:321/109 - Pioneer Valley PCUG, Amherst MA

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K12 - CHANNEL GUIDE - current activity in the K12 project echoes
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Channel '0' (K12.CH0) - K12 Inter Class Pen Pals Messages
                        
                        Groups Messages sent by teachers from
                        one class to another
 
                        Requests for class pen pal                               
                        exchanges                       

                        Type OPEN
                        Helen Sternheim (1:321/109) moderator


Channel '1' (K12.CH1) - CO_2 Challenge Project
                        Marshall Gilmore (1:105/606) moderator
                        Type:OPEN

                        Carbon Dioxide questionnaire, save energy,
                        reduce CO2 production. Global Warming effects.
 
                        Ending May 31, 1992

Channel '2' (K12.CH2) - Currently Available 

Channel '3' (K12.CH3) - Brown Bag Science
                        Tom Barner (1:321/110), moderator
                        Type: OPEN

                        Posting of homework projects that can be 
                        done at home, with household materials.
                        Tom has been doing these with his class in 
                        Newton, MA  with great success.

Channel '4' (K12.CH4) -  The Bill of Rights Discussion
                         Jack and Lori Loranger moderators @ 1:105/114
                         type: OPEN
                         Start date 2-10-92  10 weeks.

                         To examine the Bill of Rights in the light
                         of history and the present, and examine each
                         amendment individually for its original intent
                         and current relevance.

Channel '5" (K12.CH5) - Currently Available

Channel '6' (K12.CH6) - Currently Available
                        
Channel '7' (K12.CH7)  - Intercampus News
                         Amanda Sutherland, proj. coordinator
                         Eduardo Delgado, proj. coordinator
                         Fido Net Address: 1:397/100
                         (Advisor Chris Rowan)

         INTERCAMPUS NEWS is designed for students to learn 
         about other students and their campuses (e.g., contests,
         fairs, festivities, cultures, principals, teacher 
         interviews, special events, environmental concerns,
         etc.).

         Students will collect information about their respective campuses.

         Students will write proofreading, edit and type their articles
         and then post them.

         March 1992 - May 31, 1992

Channel '8' (K12.CH8)  - Currently available

Channel '9'  (K12.CH9)  - Star Trek Role Playing Game
                        Peter Stark (1:278/721) moderator
                        Type: CLOSED (see below)
                        runs 'til March 31, 1992

                        A student created project, open to those in
                        Sr. High School who are interested- they must
                        ask their Sysop for admittance.

Channel '10' (K12.CH10) - Currently Available!

Channel '11' (K12.CH11) - World News Project
                          Chris Rowan (1:397/100), moderator
                          Type: OPEN
              
                        Students will compare cultures by collecting
                        and sharing local news items.

                        Ending April 17, 1992

Channel '12' (K12.CH12) - Weather Sharing
                          Tom Barner (1:321/110)
                          Lynda Meenan (1:321/110), moderators
                          Type: OPEN

                        A reprise of last year's very successful
                        project...  Students will take similar 
                        weather measurements at the same time around
                        the world, and compare data.
                        
                        Ending May 31, 1992
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For more information or comment on the different projects underway contact
the listed moderator of the conference via K12.PROJECTS, or netmail.

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Do not post messages in CLOSED conferences until you have been admitted
to the echo by the moderator.

Conference Moderators may be contacted via Netmail at the address listed,
or in K12.PROJECTS.
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