Final+Project+Proposal

** Final Project Proposal **
Please post your final project ideas here. What is topic? Are you working alone or with a partner? Please sign your name(s).

Coming to America is the title of my project. In 5th grade, we teach immigration. This year, I would like to have students look at not only the different waves of immigration, but also, the different reasons/ways people end up immigrating. For example, people coming from refugee camps is one way we have had immigrants enter our country. I will be working alone on this project. Raylene

In second grade we introduce the five themes of geography. I am going to create a unit composed of different picture books and sources that can be used to introduce the five themes of geography. Abby

A secondary goal of this unit is to develop community within our grade and classrooms. This unit will end with our students developing their own daily life book. We hope to share them as a grade level. As a final piece, we will find games from these countries that students can play. submitted by Maggi Thompson, Tracy Viox and Kelly Corbett
 * __A Day in the Life of Children from Around the World__** is the name of our project. In hopes of embracing our commonalities, as one author has put it, we can be more tolerant of our differences. This is a beginning step to creating global awareness in our third graders. We hope to identify up to 5 components of a child's day across several different cultures. We will begin with an overview book __One World, One Day__ by Barbara Kerley and proceed to China, Russia, Brazil and Ghana, based on the book series, __A Child's Day . . .__ We also hope to find on line resources to support this lesson.

Holidays Around the World: An introduction to holidays celebrated by children and their families is the title of my project. I would like to introduce students to some traditions associated with cultural and religious holidays celebrated around the world. Basic information such as locations and languages spoken by the celebrants, including in the United States, will be shared. I would like to introduce holidays throughout the year close to where they are celebrated on the calendar. Dan

Project submitted by Jo Leate, Cindy Wankowicz and Maria Wythe: __**Well Aware**__ The focus of our project is for students to become aware of the importance of water, specifically how water is valued, accessed, consumed, and conserved in Needham vs. Africa. Additionally, students will be able to identify the similarities and differences of water within these two locations. The students will focus on this unit for two weeks. We will be using a variety of technology (ie: Keynote, Google Earth, Google Doc, videos, GarageBand) and reading materials (ie: __One Well: The Story of Water on Earth Our World of Water__ by Rochelle Strauss) to relay the pertinent information to students. The student's final project is to collaborate on a keynote presentation to reflect on their water awareness by incorporating what they have learned.