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Grade 2
Mail Exchange: States / Countries
Website
The Great Mail Exchange Web Resources
 This project integrates Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, and Technology. Students used the internet to identify elementary schools in each of the 50 states. Each student then selected a school and sent a survey with a cover letter explaining the project to the 2nd grade teachers at the school. Responses were tallied and recorded on a map of the US. Data received was entered in a database. Students used internet resources to contact a school to also gather the survey information via email.
Slideshow
Writing Friendly Letters
 (AW 6 Slideshow)		 This is a short AW6 slideshow showing the parts and format of a friendly letter.
See web resources above. Students used maps of the United States to identify the location of respondents.
States Mail Exchange Templates

blanksurvey.pdf
blanksurvey.cws
blanksurvey.rtf
blanksurvey.txt

CompletedPAsurvey.pdf

SampleMailExDB.cws
SampleMailExDB.pdf

This is the survey form mailed or emailed to schools. For those schools to which it was sent in email format, an RTF, text, AppleWorks, and Word version were attached so that it could be opened regardless of the receiving teacher's equipment, software, and expertise.


Students, with teacher guidance, used an AppleWorks 6 database to enter survey information gathered from those schools that responded. Returned survey data was entered into a database and discussed. These files show samples of completed entries.
MailExDBTempl.cws This is a blank AW database template to use.
Another version of the db
mail_ex_db.cws
mail_ex_db.pdf
  
Some classes graphed the data comparing the length of time taken and the number of responses received between mailed vs. emailed surveys. The data gathered and the advantages and disadvantages of each method of communication were discussed.