Project Planner Transport and Journeys Overview
Overview Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Resources

    Overview:

The ‘Transport and Journeys’ project allows students to share information about modes of transport that are known to them. The students will share information about transport systems and journeys that are familiar to them. The students will research and share information about a famous journey. 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.

The project runs for four consecutive weeks. By following this project guide all participants will be able to share and compare the same results.
 
Enrol Project Dates
Year From To Start Publish Week 1 Publish Week 2 Publish Week 3 Publish Week 4
2004 11th Oct 7th Nov 8th Nov 12th Nov 19th Nov 26th Nov 3rd Dec
2005 3rd Oct 13th Nov 14th Nov 18th Nov 25th Nov 2nd Dec 9th Dec

Week 1
Transport We Know
  • Discuss the difference forms of transport used to travel to school
  • Conduct group surveys of the modes of transport to school
  • Discuss why the modes of transport are used
  • Write a collaborative analysis of the collected transport to school survey
  • Publish the work to the project web site

Week 2
Traffic Problems
  • Review Week 1 published work on the project web site
  • Identify the traffic problems in the near locality of the school
  • Write a collaborative analysis of the traffic problems
  • Are there any solutions to the traffic problems?
  • Write a collaborative analysis of the solutions to the traffic problem

Week 3
Journeys
  • Review Week 2 published work on the project web site
  • Select and research a famous journey
  • Write a collaborative text about the researched journey
  • 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