Activities

=Activities=

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Opening Videoconference Virtual Scavenger Hunt
 * Scavenger Hunt/Bingo Questions for Video Conferences**

Listen carefully to the information given by the hosts and the introductions from each school. Record the answers to the following questions for a chance to win the LEMONADE BINGO game in the closing videoconference on April 24th!

1. Is this the second or third annual videoconference?

2. How many schools are participating in this year’s conference? _

__3. Which state that begins with the letter “I” has students participating this year?__ _

__4. Are students from North or South Dakota connected today?__

__5. The host school is located just outside of which major Pennsylvania city?__ _

__6. What is Alex’s mom’s name?__

__7. How much money did Alex’s Lemonade Stand raise last year to benefit childhood cancer research?__ _

__8. What Texas city is home to Campbell Elementary?__ _

__9. Pocono Mountain East High School is in which Pennsylvania city?__ _

__10. Which school is located in Fairfield, Ohio?__ _

11. How many schools are participating from Katy, TX?

__12. Rock Lake, North Dakota is home to which school?__

13. They just might be “seeing double” at this middle school in Elverson, PA.

14. Which elementary school comes from a state that shares a name with one of the Great Lakes? _

__15. Which school asked the first question in the Q&A segment with Liz Scott?__ _

16. Who was the special guest introduced by Liz Scott?

__17. What is the name of the band that will be performing during the closing videoconference?__ _

__18. What do you make when life gives you lemons?__

-During the two week span, we will post a blog for kids to respond to, comment on, and/or post their own ideas. Here's one place where we can address essential questions for the project. We should post direction on the site for the teachers, and encourage participation. We could even open this several weeks prior to the project start date so that any interesting topics could be pulled and discussed during a short segment in the first conference. This would really spark the interest and make the discussions more authentic.
 * Kids blogging**

Here is the blogspot... http://alexslemondrop.blogspot.com/

Let's work together and continue with the comments, and encourage participation from everyone involved in the project!

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 * Curriculum Connections**
 * Ronald MacDonald can tabs- Math counting
 * http://www.rmhc.com/rmhc/index/programs/ronald_mcdonald_house/pop_tab_collection.html
 * Social Studies- Locations of participating schools
 * Flat Stanley idea- Where are the schools located? Geography? Climate?
 * LA- Poems: Kids Making a difference
 * Class poem
 * Individual poem
 * kids can create raps or songs about making a difference.
 * Blogging
 * Print out a hardcpoy and hahve kids react to the blog entry as a homework assignment- share in class
 * post one reflection as a whole class response
 * Can your class create a really good question for other schools to respond to?
 * In order to respond, you will need to set up a Google Blogger account- it's simple, takes seconds, and requires an email account
 * Give kids the web address and have them post on their own at home
 * PenPals- email, video-conference, eboard inotes, blogging, writing
 * Digital literacy
 * EAch student will take one photo of How to make a difference which will be put into a class collage. The kids will write about it and narrate their photo in imovie
 * Journal for kids in the hosptial
 * Each child in the class will bind paper together to create a journal for the kids in hospital. The students will decorate the front of the journal with happy drawings, lemons, stickers, etc.
 * Books
 * Instead of donating books to the hospital, we can create classbooks to donate to the centers.
 * Community Involvement
 * Have a local restaurant (such as Applebee's donate a percentage of the daily revenue towards in school projects for the Youth Service Day. An example would be to use the money to buy paper/pencils/stickers/markers, etc for the journal idea.
 * Trader Joe's might be another resource for this kind of idea.
 * Trader Joe's might be another resource for this kind of idea.