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=﻿Hebreard Travel Agency= My sixth grade e-period have been planning vacations. Each group are given a profile of a family. They are told how many people are in the family along with their ages, when the family can go on a vacation, and how much much money they have budgeted for the trip. Based on that information, they must plan a trip for the family. As they plan, they put all of their information on a Wikispaces wiki. The collaboration on this project is unreal! And they get very into it. Some of the students have even asked if they can work on this at home....and this is something they aren't being graded on! I do sweeten the deal and at the end of the four and a half weeks, we have four awards that the groups can win and each award comes with Falcon Funds. Once they get started on this project, I have to do very little talking. They are quite content to work together to figure things out.

Here's a fun one! After studying the genre of mystery, the kids are introduced to old-time radio shows and told that they are going to write their own radio show script. Of course, their show has to be a mystery. After writing, editing, and practicing their script, they then record their script using the Sound Recorder on the computer. They can then add downloaded sound effects and edit their recordings using Movie Maker. To give the project even more relevance, we created a wiki and uploaded each groups podcasts to the [|wiki].
 * Mystery Podcasts **