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.
Groups create a timeline based on historical events of their country. Teams, through class discussion and with the help of the teacher, identify three possible locations of their country. They create a Hypercard stack showing the three possible locations and the language spoken in each of the countries. Students document the musical instruments of their country. Students draw or copy clip art of the musical instruments from their country based on the clues supplied by the high school students.