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Activity: Conduct Interviews and Exchange Results

The class will brainstorm ideas for questions that will appear on a class interview sheet.

Create a simple interview sheet to help students be successful. The person being interviewed should be asked to read (or help read) the question and guide the student in marking the correct answer. For young students, interview sheets should be easy to fill out. Circle the answer may be best.

Role Play- One of the students will interview the Principal (or other adult well known to the students) while the teacher demonstrates how to fill in the interviewing form.

Students will practice reading and using the form by interviewing a partner in the classroom.

Students will use the interview form to interview adults at home. Encourage younger students to ask the adult to help them fill in the interview sheet the class created.

Exchange Results of Interviews

Students will bring their completed forms to school and add their adults' interview answers to the class list on the computer. These answers can be e-mailed to a buddy class somewhere else in the nation.

Find classroom penpal buddies at teaching.com's IECC site (http://www.iecc.org/). This is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges.

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