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Overview Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Resources

    Overview:

The ‘Ourselves’ project allows students to share information about their own physical attributes and lifestyles. The weekly submission of text, images and data will enable students to analyse and compare results. The project activities are designed to integrate ICT into other curriculum areas and to develop and extend ICT skills.
 
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Project Dates 
Year From To Start Publish Week 1 Publish Week 2 Publish Week 3 Publish Week 4
2004 1st Jan 18th Jan 19th Jan 23rd Jan 30th Jan 6th Feb 13th Feb
2004 23rd Aug 19th Sept 20th Sept 24th Sept 1st Oct 8th Oct 15th Oct
2005 22nd Aug 18th Sept 19th Sept 23th Sept 30th Sept 7th Oct 14th Oct

Week 1
What We Look Like
  • Establish concept of similarity and difference
  • Conduct class surveys of hair and eye colour
  • Conduct a class survey of birthday months
  • Write collaborative text analysis of the data collected
  • Publish the work to the project web site

Week 2
Are We Healthy? Are We Fit?
  • Review Week 1 published work on the project web site
  • Establish with students the meaning of ‘fit’ and ‘healthy’
  • Conduct a survey of exercise activities
  • Conduct a survey of breakfast eating habits
  • Conduct a survey of bedtimes
  • Write collaborative text analysis of the data collected
  • Publish the work to the project web site

Week 3
What We Like To Do
  • Review Week 2 published work on the project web site
  • Conduct a survey of hobbies
  • Conduct a survey of television programme preferences
  • Write collaborative text analysis of the data collected
  • Publish the work to the project web site

Week 4
What Have We Learnt?
  • Use work published on the project web site to make comparisons
  • Write a collaborative text account of the knowledge that has been acquired through the project
  • Write a farewell collaborative text
  • Publish the work to the project web site

Overview Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Resources