Each school will submit one letter of introduction. Use your own discretion on whether or not to combine letters from several classes into one. Please include the name and location of the school, including latitude and longitude, and the grade levels participating. We would also like an email address and postal address. This information will be posted. We encourage teachers and students to correspond with one another. Free email accounts may be set up through Yahoo or E-mail if necessary. Use this letter of introduction to describe your school and community. Any other information that you can share would further enhance the project.
Greetings from Charles J. Riley PS #9. CJR 9 is located in Paterson, New Jersey. Paterson is an urban area located in Passaic County and is 20 miles from New York City. The elevation of CJR 9 is 121 above sea level. Our coordinates are 40:54N and 74:9W. Paterson is located in a Deciduous Forest biome. We experience all four seasons in a year. Our average temperature in the winter is 36F (2C) and in the summer it is 87F (31C). The average rainfall is 43.97in per year. Currently we are enjoying a typically rainy Northeastern Spring. We look forward to sharing our results.Our school is located in a very diverse community and our students come from all over the world. Our student body is made up of approximately 1200 students in grades K-8. Our students are predominatly Latino, Arabic and Turkish; however, over 16 different languages are spoken in our students' homes.
Our school was selected to be a theme shool and contains three different academies. The theme for grades 6-8 is the Global Awareness Academy. Students receive instruction in interdisciplinary units. Our teachers designed this project to help in the study of heat transfer and solar energy. Mrs. Tarant will teach the science concepts, Ms. Warren will teach the math and Mrs. O'Rourke will help with the technology comonents of the project.
Mrs. Tarant, Ms. Warren, Mrs. O'Rourke
6 Timothy Street
Paterson, NJ 07503
Letter of introduction from Year 7 pupils at Trinity School, Newbury
Greetings from Trinity school. We are located in Newbury, Berkshire in the South of England. Newbury is a rural town in the county of WestBerkshire. We are 58 miles from London, and our height above sea level is 300-400 metres. Our co-ordinates are 51N 1W. Around the town there ismixed woodland but most of the area is agricultural. Our average temp in the winter is 4C and in the summer it is 18C. Our average rainfall is 593mm peryear.
Year 7 pupils, aged 11-12 years have helped with this project. Our school buildings are mixed (old and new). Our very new, modern buildings are purpose built and are designed to use natural light. You can find out more about our school by visiting the Web Site at http://www.trinity.berks.school.uk/
Our school has EcoSchool status and students have developed an Ecocode and have taken part in solar panel experiments. We recently won the "Winning Ways" Oak award and the "Premier Mars award." You can find out more about this award scheme at http://www.marsawards.com/ describing environmental efforts many local schools and businesses.
Contact: stevens@trinity.berks.sch.uk
G'day to everyone from Invergordon PS, is a small rural community (population approx 500) in Victoria, which is the most southern state on the east coast of mainland Australia. Invergordon has a small township (population about 40) and the rest of the community live on dairy farms or orchards. ( There are also some small hobbyfarms.) Our school is called Invergordon Primary School. It has 62students from Prep to Grade 6. We're in Grade 6 and there are 10 of us, 6 boys and 4 girls. Our teacher is Mr Paul Cairns. He is also the school's Principal. There are three other classrooms, a Prep/Grade 1, a Grade 2/3 and a Grade 4/5. We have five computers in our classroom and four of them are connected to the internet. It is summer time here at the moment and we have already had some very hot days. We often have days over 100F. Our winters are cold but we never have snow. We are only 590 feet above sea level. Our town isn't on most maps. It is about 30 kilometres NNE of Shepparton which is our nearest city. Our latitude is South 36 degrees 8.75minutes and our longitude is East 145 degrees 36.644 minutes. Our e-mail address is inverps@cnl.com.au and our postal address is: Invergordon Primary School RMB 4272 Invergordon Victoria 3636 AUSTRALIA.
From Grade 6 Invergordon Primary School Australia
Greetings from Scoil Eoin, Kilbarrack, Dublin5, Ireland.
Kilbarrack is a suburb on the N.E. of the city of Dublin. It is a 15 minute train journey to the city centre,yet we are only a 10 minute walk
from Bull Island a Nature Reserve where thousands of migratory ducks and geese over winter.
There are 270 pupils in the school aged between four and thirteen.We're in Fourth Class and there are 32 pupils in our class. We have one
computer in our classroom and one Internet connection in the school.
At 53 degrees 25.59minutes North we are nearer to the North Pole than the Equator. However, even at this latitude solar panels are beginning to
appear on the roofs of some houses.Our longitude is 6 degrees 15 minutes West.
The climate in Ireland is mild, moist and variable.Dublin is on the East coast so we fortunate in that less then 30 inches of rain falls here
annually.
We are looking forward to participating in this project as it will be our first occasion collaborating with schools around the world.
Our e-mail address for the project will be scoileoin@hotmail.com
Mary Purcell
Scoil Eoin,
Kilbarrack,
Dear Project leaders,
We are a small Catholic school in Niles Illinois. We found your site arnd are very excited to participate. We are Our Lady of Ransom school in Niles Illinois. We are two fifth grade classes. We hope you don't mind that we are young.
Our longitude is 42:01:37 N. Our latitude is 87:48:34 W.
Please send us email to our class address OLRschool@hotmail.com
Sincerly,
Brendan Murphy (student teacher)
Sheryyl Vormittag (teacher)
Our Lady of Ransom School
8300 Greenwood Ave
Niles Il 60071
Hello from Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA!
Kenosha is a city in southeastern WI. We have a population of about 85,000. Kenosha is 45 minutes south of
Milwaukee and 1 hour north of Chicago, Illinois. We are two eighth grade students, Jennifer and Kelsey, and we are
working on this for the District Tech Fair with our teacher Mrs.. Glembocki. Kenosha is at an elevation of 600 feet.
Our latitude is 42 32N, our longitude is 87 48E. Our average temperature over the course of the year is 46.3 degrees
Fahrenheit. Our lowest temperature ever is -31 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ever was 103 degrees
Fahrenheit. We usually get snow between the months of late November to early April. During the summer the
temperature usually reaches 100 maybe a few degrees more or less. On average our precipitation is about 33.2 inches
per year.
We attend Lance Middle School, grades 6 to 8. We have approximately 1000 students as of the 1999-2000 school
year. We are in the Summit House. A house is a group of the four main school subjects: Math, Science, Social
Studies, and Language Arts. Kelsey takes Computer Applications as an elective and Jennifer is a Spanish 1 student.
This is the first time any of us has done an online project. We are interested in seeing the results, and we'd like to
chat if possible.
From:
Mrs.. Glembocki, Kelsey Olson, and Jennifer Deeter
Lance Middle School
Kenosha Wisconsin USA
Mrs.. Glembocki: mamichka@yahoo.com
Jennifer Deeter: rdnd@powerlynk.com
Dublin 5
Ireland.
The James Still Learning Center is located in Hindman, KY USA at 37.58 N and
82.71 W. We are a non-graded K-8 school for children with learning
differences. We have a total of 32 students, 4 certified teachers and an
aide. Eleven students (grades 6-8) will be participating in the project.
Mrs. Ann Titsworth is the teacher of this middle grade science class.
The area in which we are located is hilly. We are on the western edge of
the Appalachian Mountains. The economy is based mainly on coal production;
both deep mines and strip mines. Winters are relatively cold with several
snows from 3-6 inches deep on the average. We experience all four seasons
and are now enjoying an early spring.
Our email address is atitsworth@knott.k12.ky.us. Our snail mail address is:
James Still Learning Center
P.O. Box 844
Hindman, KY 41822
USA
Greetings from Mill Pond Elementary in Lacey Township!! We are a 6th grade Science class working on this project. We are located in central New Jersey at 47 Latitude and 74 Longitude. We receive an average of 47 inches of rainfall each year. We have 4 distinct seasons: in the Winter, the temperature averages 32 degrees, in the spring 50 degrees, summer 73 degrees (although it gets much hotter: most days are in the 80's or 90's), and our fall is cool, averaging 45 degrees.
We have no computers linked to the internet in our classrooms yet, but once a week, we have Internet Research class, where there are 30 computers connected to the internet.
We have been studying Solar Energy for almost a month now, and this project that one of the students, Vienne Z., discovered, directly ties into our studies. It would be interesting to learn how other parts of the world experience the Sun as well. We also look forward to communicating via theInternet with other schools. Our e mail address for this project is:
SloanScience@hotmail.com
Mrs. Sloan
Mill Pond Elementary School
210 Western Boulevard
Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734
From, Mrs. Sloan's Science Classes
