OneWorld Classrooms -- Sample E-mail for E-mail Q & A Exchanges



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OneWorld Classrooms is a nonprofit organization that builds bridges of learning between the classrooms of
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*Formerly the Creative Connections Project.

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SAMPLE E-MAIL FOR E-MAIL Q & A EXCHANGES

INTERACT WITH K-12 CLASSES FROM AROUND THE WORLD!

Get started on your Email Q & A exchange!

To get your E-mail Q & A exchange started, copy and paste the letter below into an E-mail to your partner teacher. Fill in the blanks, add what you like and delete the instructional notes in red.

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Dear ____________,

Greetings from _____________________________________________ [school, city, state/province/country]! My name is ______________________ and I am ________________ [a __ grade teacher/parent]. I will be coordinating our OneWorld Classrooms E-mail Q & A exchange on this end. ___ [#] students in our ____ [grade] grade class(es) will participate in the exchange.

To begin the exchange, I will send you one E-mail by ______ [date] with ___ [10/25]questions my students would like to ask yours. Please send one E-mail by the same date with your students' ___ [10/25] questions. I will send one E-mail with my students' replies to your students' questions by ______ [date]. Please send your students' replies to my students' questions in one Email by the same date.

We would like the theme for our Q & A exchange to be ______________. We are studying ____________, so we hope the Q & A exchange will help us to learn more about it.

Please inform me if the timetable I mentioned works for you and let me know your preferences.

We look forward to partnering with you and learning about each other through our collaboration.

Sincerely,

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