• Purpose
• Questions
• Date of project realization
• Participants
• Activity results
• Activities
• Rewarding of the participants
• Contact us

• Organization an out-of-school cognitive and creative activities of pupils using new technology.
• Development of creative, cognitive and communicative abilities of the pupils.
• Learning to master new net telecommunication technologies.

Questions

• What are the historical roots of the snowmen-building tradition in the world ?
• Are there any national and local peculiarities in the snowmen-building?
• How are the characters and the objects, made of snow, depicted in literature and works of art?
• How do people use snow and ice as a specific material in the modern world?

Subjects

• literature, history, fine arts, history of the world culture

Date of project realization

• December 2001 - April 2002

Participants

• Building (sculpturing) an individual snowmen
• Photo-gallery of snow sculptures
• Stories or fairy-tales about snow characters
• Essays and web.home pages about the history and the snowmen-building traditions.
• Discussing by e-mail
• Voting online

Activity 1: 3.01. - 20.02. 2002 .

The participants make their own snow sculptures (traditional, modern, avant-garde), take a picture of them and themselves, scan photos and send them (format jpg,400x300p) by e-mail snowman2002@udm.ru. Renewal of the photo-gallery weekly. Voting will be on February, 20-28, 2002.

Activity 2: January - February, 2002.

The participants write stories about snow characters, search the information and make reports and projects. The participants send texts (format doc.) and images (format jpg, 400x300p) by e-mail snowman2002@udm.ru. Renewal of the project-gallery weekly. Voting will be on March, 1-15, 2002.

Activity 3: February - March, 2002.

The participants make their own web home pages using store material. Web pages or links to them are sent by e-mail snowman2002@udm.ru. Site renewal is weekly. Voting will be on April, 1-15, 2002

Rewarding of the participants

Experts and results of net voting determinate the winners in every kind of the activity. The public organization "Drugaya shkola" provides the winners with the presents.

Contact us

"Drugaya Shkola", p/box 4170, Izhevsk, Russia, 426011,

e-mail: snowman2002@udm.ru.