Project Description: For this assignment students worked in pairs or in groups of threes. Like the popular television program of the same name , they were assigned a line of longitude and had to travel along it from the North Pole to the South Pole, visiting countries on the way. They marked the line of longitude onto a world map and coloured and named the countries traveled through. Finally they wrote a short report on each country they visited.

During the first quarter of Grade 5 students also worked on a science topic called "The Earth and Space". As part of this topic we had the opportunity to meet

Vladimir Pletser , a physicist/ engineer and astronaut candidate. Mr Pletser works at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and he gave us an extremely interesting presentation on past and current projects conducted by ESA including the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moon Titan and the Ariane 5 rocket--part of a programme of commercial rockets to send up satellites.

Students were very interested in satellite images of the world and have been delighted that this topic could be combined with their Pole to Pole projects.