Re: Olympic Unit planned for next fall

[Pat Turner <pturner@MAIL.PUBLIC.LIB.GA.US>]

Dear LmNetters,


I am a school librarian at Cartersville Middle School at Cartersville,
Georgia (about 50 miles from Atlanta).  The Language Arts teacher and I have
been planning a unit on Summer Olympics events and famous Olympians for our
sixth grade students.  We always do a short research unit at the beginning
of the year to introduce them to the research process before they do their
social sciences project in October.  This year we chose the Olympics, for
obvious reasons. ha   I have already ordered books and the teacher has made
a list of the events and people that the students will research.

Does anyone gave any suggestions, resources, etc. they would like to share
with us?   We are especially interested in the students producing an
interesting "research product" rather than a paper.

We would also be interested in connecting with other students who are
planning similiar projects.  Last year, the students did research on authors
and then wrote them letters including a request to to do a teleconference
with them.  We received 8 "Yes" answers and chose to talk with  a Newbery
winning author...it was wonderful.  So, we are always interested in using
online technology to enhance projects!

TIA,

Pat

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Pat W. Turner, Library Media Specialist
Cartersville Middle School - Post Office Box 130 - 215 Pine Grove Road
Cartersville, Ga. 30120 - ph. (404)382-3666  Fax:(404)387-7495
email pturner@mail.public.lib.ga.us
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