2016-17 TWICE Seasonal Collaborative Events
These are Matching Events which means you sign up for a day and time for your connection and you will be matched with a partner (we do our best to accommodate your day and time, but flexibility is appreciated).
You must be a member of TWICE to particpate.
These are the Seasonal Collaborative Events scheduled so far (more to come) for the 2016-17 school year. Flyers and Teacher Packets will be availablefor download shortly.
Crazy Creature
Collaborations
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Grades: PreK-3 60-min. connection
Connections Nov. 1-2 - Registration announced in Sept.
Each class will create a creature with a creepy theme. Students will then write a description of their crazy creature for their partner class to replicate. During the videoconference the classes will compare their original creatures with the replicated creatures. For 60 crazy minutes, two classrooms will be paired together for a live two-way interactive event. Prior to meeting though, each class will create a creature with a unique creepy theme representing an imaginative idea about a creature in the spirit of fall holiday fun! Students will then write a description of their “crazy creature” for a partner-class to replicate by sending ONLY the description via e-mail, U.S. Mail or Fax to the partner teacher at a TWICE member school. Both classes will meet via videoconference to compare their original “creatures” with the replicated “creatures” to see if the Creepy Creature Collaboration was a success.
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Scary Story
Symposium
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Grades: 4-8 60-min. connection
Connections Nov. 1-2 - Registration announced in Sept.
Plan for a scary 60-minute live two-way interactive program! Participants in the program will have an opportunity to exchange the opening and middle paragraphs of a super-scary story via e-mail, U.S. Mail or Fax with a partner class at a TWICE member school. By exchanging the first two parts of the story, the receiving schools will finish each other’s stories by writing “what happens next!” Students will then meet for a “scary” two-way interactive experience via ITV by sharing the remainder of the story by reading it, acting it out sharing it as a poem, using video, or any way they decide would be the be a perfect ending to a truly “scary” story!
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Holiday Customs
Exchange
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Grades: 2-8 60-min. connection
Registration: Nov. 7-11
Event: Dec. 19-21 2016
In this 60-minute program, students will exchange a unique holiday custom representing a tradition or theme from a different country or part of the world (ex: Kwanzaa, Diwali, St. Lucia Day, Boxing Day, etc.). Students will present their holiday custom that has been researched with a partner class who can participate in the new learned custom through an interactive experience. Classes will meet via videoconference ITV to share the holiday custom they have learned about!
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There's No Business
Like SNOW Business
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Grades: 3-8 60-min. connection
Registration: Dec. 9-18, 2015 & Jan. 4-5, 2016
Event: Jan. 27-29 & Feb. 1-3, 2016
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Is it really true that no two snowflakes are alike? Investigating the intricacies of an
individual flake and learning about such things as how American artists have depicted the beauty and wonder of snow and
ice in paintings and photographs, to the mathematical and scientific composition of snowflakes can be fascinating.
Snow Business Flyer
Snow Business Teacher Packet
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Poetry Idol
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Grades: K-12 60-min. connection
Registration: March 16-24 Event: April 27-29
To celebrate Poetry Month, students write their own poems or select favorite poetry to perform. After each presentation, students “rate” and share what they liked or what the poetry meant to them.
Poetry Idol Flyer Poetry Idol Teacher Packet
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Amazing
American
States
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Grades K-8 60-min. connection
Registration: April 11-20 Event: May 18-20 & 23-25
Amazing American States: K-3 grades
Each class shares a presentation about a state they have chosen. Following the presentations, students ask each other questions about their state or community.
Amazing American States Flyer
Amazing States Teacher Packet
Where is this Amazing American State: 4-8 grades
Each class researches a city and state of your choice and prepare clues for the other class. The other class will attempt to discover the secret location using the Internet, maps, textbooks, etc.
Amazing States Flyer
Where is this Amazing State Teacher Packet
Where is this Amazing State Information
Required Clues
Making Posters
Note Taking Worksheet
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