Communities
Connecting
October 2003 - February 2004
* Project no longer
active - following information available
on this page as a resource.
Project Coordinator Mrs. Terry
Stoufer
Terry Stoufer has a 2nd grade in Florida. She
used email and eboard.com posting for this project. Participating classes contributed the following information about their communities:
* average
hi temp
* average low temp
* total precipitation
* average daylight
Suggestion:
Terry's previous class made it a weekly classroom job for two students to do. They easily
accessed the web and logged their data in a weather journal each day. The class met weekly
to find averages and post data to the project page.
Weekly Question About Our
Community:
Terry posted a question for classes to answer about their community. This
provided an opportunity to compare communities. Possible questions
were on:
transportation, language, population, land forms, climate affects, and economics. The
questions required only a brief answer. Here are the first questions:
October 6-10 What types of
transportation are available in your community?
October 13-17 What is the population of your town? Your county? Your state?
October 20-24 What language/s are prominent in your community?
October 27-31 What type of activities do the people of your community participate in
frequently during the summer? Fall? Winter? Spring?
November 3-7 What are some of the products your community provides? Your state provides?
November 10-14 What historical events occurred in your community/ and or state that was
important to our country?
November 17-21 What are some animals and plants that are native to your community/ state?
November 24-28 week off for Thanksgiving
December 1-5 How has your community changed in the last 20 years?
December 8-12 Comparison of prices: On the average a gallon of regular
gasoline , gallon of milk , monthly cable bill
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