Elementary School

Project Ideas	Overview	Links
Historic Tweets	students develop interface and messages as historic or fictional characters might have communicated in 140 character tweets	sample historic tweets Sample for Canadian History
Adopt Someone	use Twitter to keep grandparents or other community members in the loop	CBC's Spark episode #67 has an interview with a grandparent on Twitter
Summary	Students summarize in 140 characters or less. Forces them to focus on the important stuff!
Book Lists	Create a classroom Twitter account and use it for book recommendations. Keep kids reading through the summer!
Bonus/Fun Homework	Tweet a bonus or fun assignment at night, like "bring me a drawing of a snail" and give students a small prize or sticker.
School wide Puzzle	Tweet a puzzle every week on Monday at 10:17 and give a prize to the first student who turns in the correct answer to the office. Well, this would just motivate students to use their cell phones in class, but it would be fun!
Tweet Pals	Have pen pals at another school over Twitter.

Attendance Reminders	Create a Twitter group of students who could benefit from on-time reminders. Send tweet to group in am before school, reminding students that you are looking forward to seeing them that day.

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