A Day in the Life of an Ice Cube
A collaborative project from Windsor Online
Windsor Public Schools Windsor, CT, USA 06095
Time Line

March 8, 2001 - A call for global participants will go out on the Internet.

April 2-6 - Grade level meetings should be held to discuss project.

April 9-12

• Send letter to families
• Review lessons on latitude, longitude and elapsed time
• Thursday, April 12 - Registration closes for global participants

 
April 13-20 - Spring Break for Windsor, CT students

April 23-27 - Project begins

• Introduce project to students
• Information on global participants will be posted on Windsor's web server www.windsorct.org/icecube
• Students plot global locations of participants

April 30-May 4

• Monday , April 30 - 9am - Freeze ice cube
• Tuesday, May 1 - Conduct experiment and begin Student Booklet
• Thursday, May 3 - All data submitted to dphelon@windsorct.org for posting to website
• Friday, May 4 - Students begin downloading data from website and entering on spreadsheet

May 7-11

• Monday, May 7 - Students complete work on spreadsheet
• Analyze data and draw conclusions
• Complete experiment booklet
• Complete self-reflections

May 14 - Begin Optional Activities

May 16 - Thank you messages sent out to global participants.