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GRADE 3: Communication Projects
(click here for corresponding lesson plans)

Theme: My Community
Time Frame: September

St. Michael's will begin these projects. Classroom teachers and students will decide on questions they would like to have answered about the city where the sister-school is located. Then they will use the free translation service on Alta Vista, http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn to translate the questions into the foreign language. The questions can be put in the format of a questionnaire or list of questions. They can all be sent at once or several each week for several weeks. The foreign language teacher will check and correct any errors made by the translator. Then the survey will be e-mailed to the sister-school. The response to the survey and a list of questions the other school wants to know will be e-mailed back. Mrs. Ruiz will assure that the process is taking place according to the schedule that she has set up with the classroom teachers and St. Michael's.

The following suggested questions and translation could be used as a starting point. Other possible questions can be found in the Where Do I Live? module of the Who Am I? project on www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/projects.html.

1. What is the latitude and longitude of your city?
2. What is the altitude of your city?
3. How does it affect the climate?
4. How many people live in your city?
5. Has the population increased or decreased in the past 10 years? Why or why not?
6. What mode of transportation does your city use?
7. How did your city get its name?
8. Does your city's name have a special significance?
9. Create a timeline and identify 4-6 important things that have happened in your city and put them on the line.
10. Find 10 favorite places of interest in your city. Scan photos or postcards. Write a sentence or two about the picture.

1. Cuál es la latitud y la longitud de su ciudad?
2. Cuál es la altitud de su ciudad?
3. Cómo afecta el clima?
4. Cuánta gente vive en su ciudad?
5. La población ha aumentado o ha disminuido en los últimos 10 años? Por qué o por qué no?
6. Qué modo del transporte su ciudad utiliza?
7. Cómo su ciudad consiguió su nombre?
8. El nombre de su ciudad tiene una significación especial?
9. Cree un timeline e identifique 4-6 cosas importantes que han sucedido en su ciudad y póngalas en la línea.
10. Encuentre 10 lugares preferidos de interés en su ciudad. Explore las fotos o las postales. Escriba una sentencia o dos sobre el cuadro.

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