Second-grade students in Michelle Comiskey’s class at Meadowbrook Elementary School held a videoconference with second graders from Oswego BOCES #21 to compare their “monsters,” a project that centered on the use of verbal instructions and how those instructions were conveyed and carried out between the two schools.
During a previous videoconference, each school shared directions on how to make a monster. Some of the Meadowbrook students’ directions included using four pink triangle eyes, four protruding ears, four arms, a pair of wings, and six legs. The directions conveyed by the Oswego school included using three balloon heads, four plastic cup arms, two paper plate legs, and two plastic cup feet.
Each school created a monster based on the other school’s instructions. During the second videoconference, the students discussed the similarities and differences between their monsters.
To further reinforce the students’ communication skills, the videoconference ended with a question-and-answer session that focused on the kinds of sports the students like to play.
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