Gardening Lesson with E-Pals setting up communication

Teachers:

• teacher would explain to students that we will be contacting children in another country to help us learn about gardening all over the world
• teacher will set up email communication with our e-pals at the beginning of the project

Students: To establish communication with our e-pals and to ask them the         following questions:          .

Questions for E-Pals:

1. What continent and/or country are they located in?
2. What is their weather and or climate like?
3. What kind of crops grow where they live?
4. What kind of plants grow in your backyard?
5. Do you have a garden and what grows there?

Students: Will share the same information with our e-pals as to the                         questions we ask them.

Teachers:

• Once we have the answers to our questions we will find on the map where our e-pals are from including: finding their continent, country and the Longitude and Latitude lines
• We will then do some research together about the climate in their region

Discussion:

• The differences in climate
• The differences in crops
• The differences in land structure

Grade: 4th

E-Pals location: Arizona