Goal: To have your students become international pen pals. What to Do: • Use Web resources to locate classes interested in corresponding with your class. (See the Pen Pal Resources box on Lesson 1)   • Discuss what your class expects from an exchange of ideas and information with a class in another part of the world. Use a world map or globe to find your correspondents' countries. • Spend some time preparing for the first exchange of letters or e-mails. Discuss how you want to introduce your class. Include your school or group name, number of students, your town or city, and country. Send an Ambassador Bear (either a real teddy bear or one or more paper bears) to visit your pen pals. Dress your bears to represent your country, state, or region.  • Take or draw a picture of your class and send it to your pen pals. • Place copies of e-mail messages or letters from your pen pals in a special folder or box. Be sure to reply to all messages as soon as possible, and try to answer any questions that your pen pals have raised. Make a bulletin board display of questions and answers. Follow Up: • Ask students to make a class list of questions you would like answered your new pen pals.