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**Grade 2 - Northern vs. Southern Hemisphere** **A Global Collaborative Project**    **2010** || **Introductions & phases of the moon** * **Getting to know each other **
 * **Month(s)** || **Topic(s)** || **Activities** || **“Due Date(s)” for the month’s activities** ||
 * **November**
 * **What the moon looks like on certain days of the month **
 * **The length of days and season where you live ** || # <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each school introduces itself to the others through a video, webpage or other means. As this is a school-to-school project, the introduction should be a group effort and not notes from individual students. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each school draws or explains in some other manner:
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Three times during NOVEMBER: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nov. 10 or 11 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**and**//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nov. 22 or 24 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**and**//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nov. 29 or 30
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What the moon looks like **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What time the sun goes up
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What time it gets dark
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which season it is
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and shares this information with the other schools. ** || # <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School introduction is completed and shared by the end of the day on Friday, November 19th

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2010 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Winter holidays:
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Information from all three dates is shared on the project wiki on Wednesday, Dec. 1 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">December
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which holidays you are celebrating and how the season/weather affects the way you are celebrating them. ** || ====Sometime between Dec.10 and January 10, your school will have a Skype call with a school in the other hemisphere to discuss winter holidays.====

WBAIS + AISJ
|| ====Email the teacher(s) at your partner school to arrange the date and time of your call by Dec. 15th.====

Post information by January 12th.
|| and February 2011 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Weather, clothing, sports**:** * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Weather - Temperature, Precipitation Information (rain or snowfall & how much) Share poetry and short stories that your students have written! || Sometime between March 1 and April 30, post samples of your student writing on the wiki page provided to your school for this purpose. Optional: || By April 30 || Tell about the types of plants and insects that you find in your part of the world at this time of year. || Sometime between May 1 and June 10, post information about the plants and insects found in your area. You may share the information as pictures, a video, writing, or whatever form you find works best for you! || By June 10 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What clothes you wore to school that day (sweatshirts, jackets, boots, etc...)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which activities, especially sports, you participated in during a certain time of the year ||  || By the end of February ||
 * March and April 2011 || ===**Our writing**===
 * May and June 2011 || **Plants and insects**