Ongoing Projects

Postcard exchange with grade 9 students in South Korea

Kate R — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:53:09 GMT

I have 55 students in grade 9 here in South Korea. They are both boys and girls, and are studying English as a second language. We would like to exchange postcards with other students of similar age anywhere in the world in English.

Our plan is to exchange names before we write the postcards. This way your students will receive a postcard personalized with their name sent to your school. In return, we would ask that the students to whom we've written a postcard, write back! :)
I would like to keep it simple and easy, so all those students who have written a postcard receive a reply.

We are hoping to connect with another class (or classes) sometime soon, so we can complete the exchange before Christmas, if possible.

Do you think your students would be interested? If so, please contact me, and we can set up the exchange.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Holiday traditions blog

Charlene H — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:56:39 GMT

Our second grade class has created a blog about the holiday traditions celebrated by many people here in the U.S.A. We are looking for classes or home schoolers to add comments to our blog about other holidays and traditions they may celebrate. We'd especially love to hear from students in other countries. View our blog at http://globalcelebrations.blogspot.com/2009/11/celebrations-around-world.html.

Christmas around the world with Polish class

Magdalena M — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:57:46 GMT

Hello! I'm a teacher in a primary school in Poland. I'd like to do a "Christmas around the world" project. I have 7 classes of students age 10-12. I need 7 classes from 7 different countries to exchange information about regional Christmas traditions with. We could send a box with some cards, a CD with carols (with the Polish version of Silent Night of course), a list of Christmas customs, regional Christmas recipes with pictures. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Christmas cards

Patritsia A — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:07:23 GMT

Hi! We are a school in Greece. We'd like our junior classes (30 students) to exchange hand-made Christmas cards with pupils from around the world. We expect to send out ours by 15th December so we would like to receive yours by then too.

It would make it all more special if the cards are addressed to our students (and yours, too) by name.

Please email me to arrange details.

Thanks

Patritsia

Endangered animals wiki

Janice F — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:17:18 GMT

I work with Gifted and Talented Elementary Students. I was looking for good second grade resources about Endangered Animals and did not find them. So, I thought we could create a Wiki. Our Wiki is open for editing and we would like participation! Just go to: http://secondanimals.pbworks.com/ You have to join PBWiki in order to add to the site, but it is free. You can add new pages or contribute to some of the pages that already exist. We hope you will participate.

Mo Greulich

2009-2010 50 state postcard exchange - still room!

Tracy L — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:05:45 GMT

I am a fourth grade teacher from Dearborn, Michigan.

Two 4th grade classes from Mexico looking for ePals

Sergio M — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:54:53 GMT

I am a teacher for two 4th grades classes. My students are learning English as a second language. We are looking for similar classes around the world to correspond through postal mail, exchange videos and pictures to compares lifestyles. There are a total of 56 students in my two classes.

14-15 y.o. -- Video project with different classes from all around the world.

nuria b — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:31:40 GMT

Hi, I have 3 students aged 14. We are from a little town near Barcelona, Spain. We would like to make a video project on the topic "The way we are" and exchange it with another group or groups outside Spain, talking about things like: food, school, houses, etc. I think we could make a nice project if we were several school from very different places and agree to talk about the same topics. We could send by e-mail the video to each group and get different videos to watch in class.

Please reply to me if interested at nuriabonet@epals.com

Best,

Christmas Box Exchange

Kelli H — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:58:08 GMT

Hello! I am from Alabama (USA). I'm looking for a class outside of the USA that would like to exchange Christmas boxes. I teach sixteen students aged 8-9. We would love to exchange information about Christmas traditions. We could send some cards, crafts and decorations, a CD with some of our Christmas carols, class traditional photos and state postcards, Christmas recipes, and perhaps "a little something sweet" for each kid.

Kelli

Collaborative short story writing circle

Inayath M — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:15:25 GMT

The grade 5s at The International School of Dhaka www.isdbd.org are embarking on an ambitious project. We are looking for schools in other parts of the world that may be interested in a collaborative short story writing circle to as the title suggests write some short stories. The way it works is very simple: working individually or in groups the children in the first school write the first part of the story. This is then emailed to the second school who write the middle. This school then emails it to the next one where the ending is written. Interested? Please email me the grade 5 teacher at inayathmohamed@epals.com and we'll get the ball rolling.

The only condition is that each segment contain a character or icon representative of the local culture/country.

Thanks,

Inayath Mohamed

Greek students looking for young e-friends to practice English

stella a — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:12:26 GMT

I've got a class of 10 year-olds learning English at elementary level in Corfu, Greece, and I 'd like to find e-friends for them in order to have them practise what they've learnt in realistic situations.They're ready to send their first email introducing themselves.They can write once a month as they need to progress in their book to get ready for the next one. They'll be able to write about:favourite cartoon character and their collection/ a description of their house and room/ their daily routines/pets/, in the next four months

Postcard project with high school from Turkey

Dilek F — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:17:35 GMT

We are a high school from the west part of Turkey. We want to start a postcard project with high school students (16-18) from all over the world.

If you would like please contact us.

Dilek Filiz

dilekf@epals.com

Russian high school students would like to explore the world

Elena R — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:37:26 GMT

We are from Russia, Moscow. I'm an English teacher and I would like my students to learn more about life of people all over the world. We are ready to make a project with you or join a project. Let's explore the world together!

ePals with US middle school students domestic or abroad?

Kristine M — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:14:16 GMT

Hello.

I am wondering if there are other schools regionally or internationally that would like to get involved and help my students learn about another part of the world. I am looking to have a once a month correspondence (probably via email) and would like the students to exchange information about their own cultures and the music they listen to and ways they work to promote peace, harmony, etc. or the way music helps them. My students are between the ages of 11-14, both boys and girls.

If you have any interest in continuing this post and have further ideas or want to join together to do something this school year, please contact me either here or at mtscottms@epals.com

Thank you!

Kristine

Share video of our roller coaster physics project

Hazel W — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:38:41 GMT

California science class of 12-14 year olds would like to share video presentations of roller coaster physics project.

Please respond to hazelw1@epals.com

Ecology correspondence with international high school students

Stephanie S — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:34:29 GMT

Hi there! My HS Ecology classes are looking to correspond throughout the school year to discuss our research, such as water quality of Columbus, OH, soil studies, plant & tree identificaition, waste management, alternative energy, coral reef management, etc. Along with correspondence, it would be great to share a project or research with other countries or areas in the US. Please email me at stephanies38@epals.com

Looking for ePals for "What It Means To Be A Citizen" project

Vanessa L — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:06:03 GMT

We are a Canadian (Toronto) class of 17 Grade 5 students (ages 10-11) looking for ePals around the world to help us with a project about what it means to be a citizen.

We are looking for many different countries to write to, as our culminating task will be to compare the information we've learned from our ePals with our Canadian citizenship knowledge.

Thank you!

-Vanessa Lewis

Exchange with Slovenia students

Danica K — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:46:47 GMT

We are a rural school in Slovenia and have been doing a student exchange with a Danish school for three years now. For next school year (2010/2011) we are looking for another school to do it.

Our students are 11-14 years old. The ones that would take part in this are 13-14. We'd like to do the exchange through Comenius or otherwise.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Danica Krapez

Looking for middle school science partners

Karen G — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:23:25 GMT

I teach grades 6 and 7 (ages 11 - 13) in Cincinnati, Ohio USA. Our 6th grade curriculum is Life Science (ecology and biodiversity, cells and cell reproduction, genetics, body systems, plant studies, animal studies with a particular focus on birds). 7th grade is Earth Science (Earth-moon-sun system, Earth's structure, Earth history particularly our local Ordovician history, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, rock cycle, climate change, renewable and nonrenewable resources, hydrology, weather). I am looking for schools that might want to partner in some type of project in one of these two areas. One possiblity is a genetics study in which we survey our students and their friends/families for the presence of particular dominant traits to see whether those traits are the most prevalent in the population (ex: attached vs. free earlobes). I am open to all ideas.

6th grade Life Science class studying birds--looking for global partners

Karen G — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:09:15 GMT

This year we have decided to weave a study of birds throughout our 6th grade Life Science curriculum. We have partnered with some local professors who are bird banders and will be banding at our school. We have also created electronic field guides that can be downloaded onto iPods. We are making biweekly counts and reporting our data to eBird as well. What we are looking for from ePals is some way to make this a more global project - to collaborate with students in other parts of the world (or the country). We are open to all ideas (and as ours take shape we will post more specifics) Thanks!

Interested in science partnerships or ideas

kristin h — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:06:01 GMT

HI! I teach fourth grade and would like some ideas of collaborating using science as a common thread. The topics we study in our curriculum through the year are light, the sun, earth and moon, electricity and sound. If anyone has ideas of how to integrate ePals or is interested let me know!

Thanks

Kristin

How is Christmas celebrated in the US and in Germany?

Sonja Z — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:09:24 GMT

I would like my students to write down their procedure during Christmas days and I would send their texts to you. Are you interested? I would like to have authentic texts from American students (13-16 years old) who write down their Christmas days, when they do what (weeks before Christmas/Christmas eve/25th December - Christmas day/26th December - Boxing Day/the twelve days of Christmas), what does it mean to them and in what do they believe. Do they enjoy their Christmas days with family and friends? I would be very happy to get some texts.doc via email Sonne210481@epals.com . Thank you very much!

Playing for Change--Interested in connecting middle school students through music

Kristine M — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:15:27 GMT

Hello.

My name is Kristine. I work at an alternative middle school in Portland, Oregon. I am interested in connecting my students (we have 45 total) with students from other countries (or possibly other regions of the US). I would like their connection to center around music, peace and understanding of another culture. My students live in a urban community and come from primarily low income familes. Most of my students have not experienced life outside of their neighborhoods. I recently become interested in a program called Playing for Change. You can view the website here http://www.playingforchange.com I would like to some how involve the ideas of this playing for change program (though it would not be necessary for the ePals to participate if they were not interested)

If you have any interest in continuing this post and have further ideas or want to join together to do something this school year, please contact me either here or at mtscottms@epals.com

Thank you!

Kristine

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Project works exchange

Gulsun A — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:22:46 GMT

Hi ! I teach English to 5th and 6th grades. I always expect my students to prepare project works about the subject we study. They are so creative. And we want to see project works with similar subjects from different countries. And at the end of the year we would like to make an exhibition in our school. If you want to join this work please just send a message...

Thanks...

Gulsun Arslan

International email culture interviews

Meghan D — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:14:11 GMT

My advandced students will be split up in teams of 2-3. Each team will focus on a different country or region, and create a presentation to give to the class about that country. Part of the research that my students will do will be to "interview" students in that focus country.

The exchange, at minimum, would only have to be 1 or 2 emails. My students would ask questions about culture, way of life, traditions and history. In turn, my students would also respond to any questions your students might have. The "interview" questions can be answered by any number or age of students.

Can anyone help? I need to find 10-12 different countries!

Thanks!

Meghan