I just got an exciting email congratulating my class for being selected to be part of the Global Children's Challenge this year!
From their website:
The Global Children's Challenge™ engages children at a classroom level to record their activity level, keep healthy and take part in a virtual walk around the world learning about health, nutrition, exercise and the places they visit over the 50 days of the event. The 2011 challenge begins Thursday 15th September and finishes Thursday 3rd November.
The 'virtual' journey around the world has a factual discovery focus, allowing kids to learn about other countries, towns, cities, and the day-to-day lives of similar aged children from different cultures all around the world. As a learning experience, the course locations include information and facts on geography, history, social science, human society, cultural difference, the environment as well as lots of the 'popular culture' that upper primary/elementary students love.
Exciting, right?
The students will each receive a pedometer and we will submit class averages! My daughter's class did this last year, so I hurried and applied because her teacher said it isn't easy to get in to!
Please check out the GCC website, and even "like" them on Facebook, and get excited like me! I am not 100% sure of what we are getting into, but we will make it awesome no matter what!
http://www.gccjunior.org/
http://www.facebook.com/GlobalChildrensChallenge?sk=wall#!/GlobalChildrensChallenge?sk=wall
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