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In this lesson you will discuss the keepsakes and mementos you received from your partner group and decide upon a topic you will research in your town and community
Like all lessons in 'Home and Community', this lesson is divided into 3 parts.

If you have already completed a part of the lesson, skip to the next part..

Personal Activity

1.	Enter the forum and look ar the keepsakes and mementos your partner group sent.

2.	Answer the questions in the Writing Page.

3.	Enter the Information Center to get more ideas about research topics for home and community.

4.	Present your research topics.

Group Activity

1.	Discuss the keepsakes and mementos your partner group sent.

2.	Look at the research topics your classmates presented.

3.	Decide upon a research topic for your home and community.

Interactive Part

1.	Send your choice to your partner group.

Personal Activity

A. The world of your partner group

Enter the forum and look at the keepsakes and mementos your partner group sent.

Enter the Forum
and look at the keepsakes and mementos.

Ready?

Answer the following questions:

Which keepsakes did you like?
Which mementos did you like?
Which ones surprised you?

Complete the
Writing Page

Researching home and community

Learn more about researching home and community.
Enter the Information Center and find additional ideas..

Enter the Information Center
and learn about researching home and community.

Try this:

After you learned more about researching home and community, enter the Writing Page and write three topics which interest you.

Complete the
Writing Page

Group Activity

A. Discussion

Discuss the keepsakes and mementos you received from your partner group with your classmates.

What did you learn about the life style of your partner group from their keepsakes?
What did you learn about the life style of your partner group from their mementos?
Are there similarities between the keepsakes you sent to your partner group and the those you received?

B. The research topics

Enter the Group Answering Page and view the research topics your classmates proposed.

Enter the
Group Answering Page
and look at the research topics

Try this:

Decide upon a topic for researching home and community.

Interactive Part

Enter the forum and send a short description of your research topic to your partner group.

Consider:

Why did you decide on this topic?
How did you reach the decision?
Did you have difficulties to decide between several topics? Explain.

Enter the Forum
and describe your research topic.

Your website!
In the next lesson you will start to build your group website. Use the knowledge you collected for researching home and community and bring additional material you want to display on your website.

Next activity (Session 5: Building the group website)

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Credits	שותפים בפרויקט
The Education Department\| The Israel Department The People to People center\| Partnership 2000 The Ministry of Education - Pedagogic Secretariat	המחלקה לחינוך\| המחלקה לישראל המרכז לקשר יהודי גלובלי \| שותפות 2000- משרד החינוך והתרבות - המזכירות הפדגוגית