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We have designed this project so that kids and teachers from around the world can take part in their own language or can practice working in another language they may be studying. We encourage everyone to help one another to learn something about other cultures and other languages. Here you can expect to see many languages spoken, but all about the same thing - we hope this will encourage all of us to learn as much about one another as we can during the next three months.

We encourage your participation in this project in whatever language you feel comfortable with. We will attempt to provide translations of this first web page into whatever languages we can find translators for. If you would like to assist us by translating this page into another language which you speak, please email us.

Other Languages

• English
• French
• German
• Norwegian
• Spanish
• Portuguese
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Project Steps

1. The Four KIDLINK Questions

• Please answer these questions first!

2. Subscribe To Our Mailing List

• KIDPROJ mailing list instructions

3. Follow The Project Dates

• Email your responses to the KIDPROJ LISTSERV

4. Register For The Project

You may send email direclty to our registration moderator, Jan Dalton and answer the following questions:

1. Name (student or school)
2. If school, how many students participating?
3. Teacher's name and e-mail?
4. Age of students
5. e-mail address and URL if any
6. School address
7. Country
8. What is the name of your currency?
9. Primary language spoken? others?
10. Can you help with translations?
11. Using graphical or text only access?

If your browser supports forms, you can answer the same questions on our web page

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese

Here is a list of participants who have already registered. Take a few moments to look over the list and then join us for an exciting, world-wide, multi-language project!

Throughout the world people buy things they want or need. We would like to find out what it costs to buy things in your country. We would also like to know about you, your country, your school, and the name of the money you use in your county. Once you have shared some of this information, we will add it to the lists we will be keeping here. If you would like to add to our list, please email your information to us through of KIDPROJ mailing list.

Do you like music? Do you read books? Do you go to the movies? Do you ever buy a pizza? Do you ever buy a cassette of your favorite music? Do you ever buy a compact disk? What does it cost in your city or town if you want to buy any of these things?

Project Outline

1. School Registration: send email to project moderator. All kids who will participate must answer the four KIDLINK questions.
2. Students, on a class or individual basis, must subscribe to our KIDPROJ mailing lis to send and receive emails.
3. Kids and schools will introduce themselves across KIDPROJ mailing lists. Please tell us about yourself, your school and your community.
4. Kids email brief descriptions and share pictures of money, past and present, in their own countries.
5. Kids research and email what their country's exchange rate is based on a standard of the American dollar.
6. Kids research and email what various items cost in their own countries.

All information will be shared on this web site.

Project Dates

• September 8 - 14: Project announcement and registration. Please register quickly as this should prove to be a popular topic!
• September 15-21: Participant introductions across KIDPROJ mailing lists
• September 22-October 6:Participants begin to describe money past and present
• October 7-20: Participants describe history of money
• October 21-November 3: Participants present current exchange rates of their country's money
• November 4-24: Participants research and share what it costs to buy certain items in their country
• November 25: Project wrap up

Once you have subscribed to our KIDPROJ mailing list, you can help us to find out what it costs all over the world to buy music cassettes and other items by sending us an email. Please include the following

• Your name
• Your city or town
• Your country
• The name of your country's money
• The cost to buy a music cassette
• The cost to buy other items like a movie ticket or pizza

Student Responses

Below are links to the various messages which were sent over the KIDPROJ mainling list during this project.

• Introductions

• What Kids Earn

• What Is Money?

• Our Money

• How Much Does It Cost?