Project 3: Developing a School Website and E-Mail Address for The Nfld Pony that can be Continually Updated in Future Years.

General Information Project Overview Curriculum Connections Technology Education Resource Connections Evaluation

  General Information

  Project Overview

This area was once a haven for horses and ponies involved in the lumber woods and as the family's source of power. It is very much a valuable part of our student's heritage. It is also an excellent theme to teach a number of ideas and skills - from "Horse Power" (Pony Power?), Environment Issues, Biology, Social Questions to Physical Driving Skills! And with this project an opportunity to serve a charity through the internet - a link from past to future, from rural roots to cyberspace.

  Curriculum Connections

Lang. Arts:

Students will gather information from a variety of written/oral/pictorial/experiential sources and use writing/wordprocessing skills for a text and graphic page with imbedded links to horse genetics, care and interest groups world wide. They also will see origins of some of our language (chomping at the bit - "hold your horses!")

Math:

Students will create graphs of pony population statistics as it is known, both province wide and locally.

Social Studies:

Learn abut their own communities, and the important place the ponies had in them.

Science:

Something of genetics; biology of the horse; how people can live quite happily with the sustainable, low energy consumption of real horse power - (and of the human work involved!). Something of the history of work, energy and power.

Religion:

A sense for what is valuable and what is not. A sense for the mystery of communication - both among ourselves and inter species. A sense of control and power, and humility and respect.

French:

The page text will be bilingual, translated by the French class.

  Technology Education

1. Students will see a broad "Time-Slice" of technology.
2. Students will use a very wide range of information sources including local observation/experience.
3. Students will develop some skill in the use of the internet and E-Mail, graphics and word processing.
4. Students will get some "connectedness" between information and their rural way of life.

  Resource Connections

The Stellar Schools Internet Connection will give our students access:

1. to what they have found out from their own roots.
2. for a search for what others have found out.

This project will enable our students to extend research under taken by Grade 5 last year to include more extensive use of word processing, graphics, E-Mail, internet and web site technology.

Other Resources:

• The Nfld Pony Society Newsletters, registry, and data (one of the teachers is on the Soc. executive).
• Books on the Nfld. Pony
• Library reference and resources
• Communities themselves have living examples available to students for observation, stories, riding and driving.
• The student's parents and grandparents have extensive experience.
• CBC videotapes
• Geneticists, breeders of other heritage ponies world wide.

  Evaluation

1. Students will be evaluated as a written project on criteria from each of the subject areas.
2. Students will have access to the internet and e-mail,.
3. Students will be proficient enough with word processing to type correctly a page of text.
4. Students will, with some help, be able to transfer/create images.
5. Students will have some understanding of web pages.