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KIDFORUM's Topic
January 1st - March 15th 1996
BLUE PRINT EARTH
Moderators
Indu Varma
ivarma@nbnet.nb.ca
Marshview Middle School
P.O. Box 970, Sackville, N.B.
E0A 3C0 Canada
Tel. (506) 364-4086 (work) Fax. (506) 364-4096 / 4095
Tor Arne Richvoldsen
richvold@grida.no
Eydehavn School
P.O BOX 100
N4810 Eydehavn, Norway
Tel. +47 37030370 (work) Fax. +47 37031744
Index
PRESENTATION OF THE
PROJECT
FORMAT
IRC
TIME LINE
REGISTRATION FORM
PLEASE NOTE
OTHER BLUE PRINT EARTH
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OBJECTIVE:
The main objective of Blue Print Earth is to provide an
exciting opportunity that would allow our students to enhance their
creative talents and use their imagination to design gadgets, invent
articles, and picture social or political scenarios which will make planet
Earth a better place to live for our future generations.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
- Develop an awareness of the various problems that Earth inhabitants are
faced with today, e.g. destruction of ozone layer, effects of chemical
sprays, various environmental hazards, areas plagued by constant earth
quakes or volcanic activity etc..
- Promote critical thinking and problem solving abilities among our
students by involving them in generating some hypothetical answers to the
perceived problems - solutions that would make the Earth a better place to
live.
- Enhance creativity and imagination of the students by involving them
in designing and inventing gadgets or items to solve the problems
observed.
- Develop communication, and inter-personal skills by marketing the
designed products.
Those who have subscribed to KIDFORUM throughout the world
will be able to participate in Blue Print Earth.
- A dialogue among students about the most serious problems facing
our planet will take place in the first three weeks. Students from each
school will post their prioritized list of serious problems facing the
Earth today on the KIDFORUM list.
During the whole project groups of students are challenged to
write an essay. The topic for the essay is closely linked to tha
name of this project. Your heading is to be : GAIA...(
which means earth ) The essay can be published whenever it is finished -
during this project, but must be ready and sent to the
KIDFORUM list before Feb. 20.
We hope to be able to send a diploma to the group(s) of students
writing the "best" essay(s)... So start writing...
- During the fourth week a discussion about some of the
possible solutions will take place between the participating schools. This
is intended to be a brain storming activity to generate a wide assortment
of possibilities.
- Following the dialogue of the first four weeks
resulting in a listing of the problems and brain storming for solutions,
the students will require two weeks to engineer or develop some products
that they believe will provide possible solutions to the problems.
During the sixth week of the project the students
will be back on-line to describe their creations, e.g. a new type of
helmet which will absorb UV rays, a chewing gum that has fluoride in it,
or a new type of inter-locking brick used in construction to make
buildings earth quake safe etc.. They may post drawings or digitized
pictures of their creations on the network (uuencoded gifs) in order to
start marketing their inventions.
- The seventh week will be an auction week, and the
students will have the opportunity to buy and sell their creations. The
schools will be able to spend their fictitious $10,000.00 to buy the
gadgets that they believe would provide the most useful, workable, and
practical solutions. They will also have the opportunity to market their
own products using advertising, cartoons, brochures, or other strategies.
The set up will be similar to an auction where bids are placed on objects,
except the product will not be sold to the highest bidder. Instead the
product accumulating the highest totals of all the bids will be declared
the winner. In a way this is an evaluation done by peers where by the
product attaining the highest total of bids will be the judged to be the
best by the participants.
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- We are scheduled for IRC: Jan. 24th and Febr. 21st
Please remember to register for
IRC in time.
- Jan. 01. - Jan. 21
- Identifying the Earth's problems and Start of Essay-writing....
- Jan. 21. - Jan. 28
- Discussing possible solutions
- Jan. 28. - Feb. 11
- Designing gadgets or products, prepare marketing
- Feb. 11. - Feb. 18
- Presenting and marketing the products designed
- Feb. 18. - Feb. 25
- Auction-Week. We decide what gadget is "most useful"
- Feb. 18. - Feb. 25
- Summing up & publishing the essays.........
Dear KIDFORUM participants,
We would like to ask you to send this Registration Form to the
moderators of the topic,
Indu Varma : ivarma@nbnet.nb.ca
and Tor Arne Richvoldsen : richvold@grida.no
Topic: BLUEPRINT EARTH - from January 1st - February 29th
1996
Name of school:
Snail mail address:
School phone number:
School fax number:
School WWW-homepage (if any):
City, Country:
Contact teacher:
E-mail address:
Approx. number of participating students:
Approx. age of students:
Date:
Mail registration to Indu and Tor Arne at the e-mail addresses on top of
the registration form.
In order to take part in any KIDLINK
activity, students have to answer the four
KIDLINK
questions and send the answers or RESPONSE to
RESPONSE@VM1.NODAK.EDU.
We hope that you will enjoy participating in this
KIDFORUM topic!
Indu Varma
&
Tor Arne Richvoldsen
The Blue Print Earth Essays
The Blue Print Earth Ideas
The Blue Print Earth Inventions
The Blue Print Earth People
The Blue Print Earth Problems
The Blue Print Earth Solutions
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Last Updated: 25 March 1996