In addition to blending the skills from these two content areas, your second grade class will use telecommunications skills to gather information from a partner high school class that will serve as role models for your children. By using HyperStudio multimedia and video presentations, your students will have a product to send to their partner high school class at the end of the project. However, the pre-concept should include world geography as a sense of placement in the world. The following activities are done in teams and the HyperCard stacks are done individually or can be done in teams of two. Each HyperCard stack is created from clues received from the High School partners.
Students become familiar with the use of telecommunications by sending letters to their partners.
Students compare and contrast the traditional dress of their country with the dress of their own country. Offline Activities Students design a table setting depicting a traditional meal using the clues sent by their high school partners. Students devise HyperCard stacks using clip art to cut and paste pictures of foods or they may draw their own pictures using the toolbox. Students create graphs to show the population of their country. Students make personal time lines of their lives to become familiar with a time line format.