On Monday we began a new project that all 4th and 5th graders will be completing. The project consists of letter writing, a field trip, a college fair conducted by students, and making a commercial with a group. It's really exciting because students receive mail at school from the colleges. Sometimes there are boxes with lots of fun souvenirs sent by the college.
There are several parts of this project that we will be completing in school and some parts will need to be completed at home. Every student has chosen 3 states and are working on finding 1 college or university from each state.
In April, we will visit the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to see what college can be like. All phases of the project must be completed on time in order to go on the field trip. Teacher approval is required to move from one phase to the next.
Phase 1
- Choose 3 colleges with programs (majors/academic programs) that are interesting to the child.
- Find the Admissions Office addresses of all three colleges/universities
- Write a letter to each college asking for information (& souvenirs) about the college and wait for responses. We will write & send the letters out from school or home. You can access the template using GoogleDocs.
- Compare the information about the three colleges with assigned criteria on the Facts and Figures Sheet.
- Write a feature article comparing two and pick the best one. This will be written mostly in school.
- Field trip to U of M (cost TBA)
- Create a tri-fold board advertising the best college for you (out of the 3 students sent letters to).
- College Fair in school
- Commercials and website creation-the commercials will advertise colleges and universities across the country and help student around the world choose a college! We will publish the commercials on the Internet!
- There will be other multimedia components that are added later for those students who work ahead.
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