These are activities our district has participated in.

2nd Grade	Fairy Tale Challenge				01/12/2007
Students in 3 different second grade classes will participate in a “Fairy Tale Challenge.”  In the first challenge, students will have to guess the fairy tale from clues that each class creates.  In the second challenge, each class will creatively retell a fairy tale.  In the third challenge, the classes will play fairy tale jeopardy together.
Planning Meeting Example		Fairy Tale Element Challenge	Fairy Tale Retell	Fairy Tale Jeopardy
Fairy Tale List		Fairy Tale Elements Challenge Sheet	Fairy Tale Retell Sheet

3rd-5th Grade	Tall Tale Story Challenge			04/21/2006
Students in 3 different classes will participate in a “Tall Tale Challenge.”  Each class will be assigned a different tall tale that they will develop clues about to ask the other classes in the video conference.
Challenge Overview		Story Elements Challenge Table	Tall Tales Advertisement

5th Grade	Science Seekers
Challenge another class to answer questions about science.
Science Seekers Details		Science Seekers Prep	Science Seekers Example

K-12th Grade	Math Marvels
Students use PowerPoint to ask challenging math questions to another class via video conferencing.
Advertisement		Confirmation	Resources
Instructions		Sample Problems	FAQ

3rd-5th Grade	Monster Exchange
Monster Exchange is an activity designed to encourage the development of reading and writing skills. Two classes create a monster (individually, in small groups, or as a whole class) and then write a description of their creation. The descriptions are exchanged and each class tries to re-create the monster(s) based solely on the description(s). The classes then connect via videoconference to compare their re-created monsters with the original(s) sharing similarities, differences, and how the monster descriptions were written and interpreted.
Overview		Instructions - Primary	Instructions - Intermediate	Make a Monster Example

3rd Grade	Pen Pals
Video conferences are an opportunity to get the kids together. Please use it as another way to facilitate learning. You may want to share a favorite book, share some riddles, play a jeopardy game based on a common unit of study, share book reports/commercials, sing a song, collect and compare data about students (eye color, bus riders, mustard or mayonnaise on hotdogs), a guess who game…anything else you can think of that meets the instructional needs of your students.
Instructions		Partner Examples	3rd GradeTEKS Example