0 How About Social Studies Point to Point Video Conference Ideas?

• Where in the United States: Each classroom creates a presentation about its city or town. The other classrooms, using maps, the Internet, textbooks, and other resources, will try to 'guess' where all classrooms are located.
• Create Travel Advertisements or brochures of a place in your community. Share these with a partner class. During the videoconference, share a virtual visit of some of the places by using photos or a video.
• Back In Time: 5th Grade classrooms present a newscast for the other groups which describe a specific event in history. The other classes take notes and guess the event.
• Civil War Debates: Two classes take different sides to a Civil War issue. Students research the issues and develop speeches to support their side. Students can take a figure of the time and give the debate acting and dressed up as that person.
• When Was That?: Each classroom will put together a presentation on a given decade. The presentations will include information on: History/Politics, Religion, Science/Technology, Fine Arts, and Leisure. The other classrooms would try to guess the decade the presentation represents.
• Where in the United States: Each classroom creates a presentation about its city or town. The other classrooms, using maps, the Internet, textbooks, and other resources, will try to 'guess' where all classrooms are located.
  
  
  

0 Need Reading and Language Arts Point to Point Videoconference Ideas?

• Have each class select a place of interest to the class. Students can draw pictures, make a brochure, maps, models, etc., to show their place. Have them write clues about this “Secret Site!” Share with your partner class to discover the secret place!
• Create a multimedia presentation (a whole class one) about a topic. Exchange these with the other class. Have them view the presentation. Write questions about the presentation to ask during the videoconference. Make a handout or art project as a follow-up!
• Have older students find a younger class with whom they could be mentors. Have older students write a play about a character trait and present it during the videoconference. OR…act out a Folk Tale. Have students write questions to ask younger students. Send a student-created worksheet, project, etc. to the teacher of the younger students ahead of time. Let those students do the activity as a follow-up!
• Read a book and videoconference with its actual author!
• Write persuasive articles and exchange. Write why you agree or disagree with the paper. Set up a debate with the partner class.
• Create a poetry booklet that includes poems written by partner classes.
  Write a continuing novel which is completed by the partner class! Make it into a book to be “published!”
• Partner with a class to write and edit papers. This will give a real audience and purpose for writing!
• Pair students. Have them share journal writing using the same prompt in both classes. Have students respond to what they read!
• Read a book. Have students write a sequel, opinion, solutions to problems, different outcomes, evaluations, or interpretations of the book. Share with partner class.
• Write a short story with other classes. Have one class create the characters, plot, another the theme, the setting, the conclusion, etc. Divide students into groups to write short stories using the above creations. Share during the conference!
  
  

0 Need Math and Science Point to Point Videoconference ideas?

• Create science/math questions to exchange with another class in the areas being studied.
• Create a jeopardy game to be played at the videoconference using CPS! Use TAKS questions if you’d like!
• Do a science experiment. Share your experiment and results with another class. Take video pictures, either still, moving, or morphed!
• Do a science lesson on a topic being studied. Share questions and answers with another class. Have an “expert” come to one of the schools to be interviewed during the videoconference!
• Have students write questions to ask younger students. Send a student-created worksheet, project, etc. to the teacher of the younger students ahead of time. Let those students do the activity as a follow-up!
• Write and share word problems. Make it a contest who can answer the most correctly in a class.
• Measure perimeters of the main areas of the school: buildings, playground, sidewalks, etc. Write descriptions using geometric terms of how to put the various shapes together. Send measurements and descriptions to your partner school and have them use these to draw a diagram of the school. Share drawings on the day of conference and compare with actual mapped pictures or photos of the real school areas.
• Find geometric shapes inside and outside of the school. Take photos of these. Send photos to the partner class and have students identify and classify the shapes!