The Changing Seasons

Thank you for visiting our "Changing Seasons" Collaborative internet project. Our objectives with this project are as follows:

• Math - utilize graphing skills to register monthly temperatures
• Technology - learn to create and use online photo album
• Geography -  locate all our participants on a map and recognize how different regions experience seasons differently 
• Art - draw pictures or take photos of the changing landscape and holidays 
• Writing - describe what months are your favorite and why; describe your field trip and how the seasons affect what you are seeing 

Project Specifics

September 14 - May 15, 2009

• Register your K - 3rd grade class.  Send teacher's name, grade, school, town, state/province, country to Gina McGee. Registration is closed. Thanks for your interest.

• Students take a photo ONCE a month, on or around the 15th of each month, at the same time. Students may illustrate what they see and include it along with their monthly photo.

• Upload the photos and artwork to a Picasa Web album, an online photo sharing site, and write a description of what has been seen. The description for the photo needs to include location, date, time and temperature.

• Describe or illustrate students' favorite months and activities.

• Locate other classroom participants on a map. Compare how temperatures and season changes vary from place to place.

• Plan a field trip to discover the changing seasons

• OPTIONAL: Create a book with your child's drawings to celebrate their discovery of the changing seasons. I am using this one from Amazon.com.

Our Participants

We have participating classrooms from Fort Worth & Plano, TX; Evanston, IL; Sterling Heights, MI; St. Louis & Columbia, MO; Oakdale, PA; Palmyra, VA; Perth, WA, Australia; Waterloo, ON; Canada; Bucharest, Romania; Espoo, Finland and Isfara, Tajikistan. 

Map of Our Locations...

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