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KIDWRITERS is part of KIDPROJ, one of the the major
lists that you should join to experience the wide range
of programs through KIDLINK. Participation in the KIDLINK youth dialog is limited to
kids up to the age of 15 years. ALL Students *must*
answer the four questions below before they may joy
any KIDLINK project
KIPROJ magazine wants YOU!
Multi-Cultural Calendar
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/
Since 1994, we have been developing a Multi-Cultural Calendar as a valuable resource for all KIDLINK classrooms around the world. KIDLINK students and KIDLEADER’s have made this calendar possible. Included in the files you will find the unique ways our KIDLINK kids are celebrating their country's holidays and festivals. The entries might contain recipes for holiday foods, historical background, significance of the holidays and the special ways in which these days are observed.
Our calendar entries are rich in local customs that perhaps cannot be found in books. The calendar is always growing and we welcome more holiday entries from our KIDLINK family. We have recently relocated the Multi-Cultural Calendar to the KIDLINK WWW server, bringing you the most current submissions available in an almost limitless array of index formats beginning here: [Months] [Holidays] [Countries] [Authors]. In addition, we have information on connecting the calendar with your curriculum
Multi-Cultural Recipe Book
Moderator: Florine Nakasone , Nakii@msn.com
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Recipe/
Project Objectives:
The objective of the "Multi-Cultural Recipe Book" is to provide
students with an opportunity to learn about and experience differences and
similarities of cultures, traditions, and foods (recipes) within and
across a variety of cultures. The project will focus on students utilizing
the Internet to gather, learn, and communicate information about recipes,
descriptions of traditions and customs, and student created graphics of a
variety of cultures from around the world.
When describing foods for special holidays please include the date of
the holiday so we can add the recipes to our KIDLINK Multi-Cultural
Calendar which is always accepting more holiday descriptions.
Benni Around the World
and
Danni Around the World
Visit our Benni WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Benni97/
Visit our Danni WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Danni/
Benni and Danni the Bears will travel from one school to another collecting information
about different people, cultures and geography around the world.
Danni and Benni are cousins -- Danni's home is in Campinas, Brazil and Benni's home is Leeds/England.
As Benni and Danni travel, students will share via email, IRC, and world
wide web about themselves and our bears' visit.
OBJECTIVES
1. Learn about other cultures around the world
2. Gain more geography knowledge of the world
3. Learn how email and the world wide web allow everyone to communicate easily
Just like last year, each school will be responsible for paying
the shipping costs to send Benni on to his next stop. It will be crucial
to the success of the project that Benni leaves on time so please plan
accordingly.
As Benni's and Danni's itinerary is made up the registered contact person will be
notified when your bear will arrive and asked to confirm acceptance of the date.
Benni is expected to travel during the months of June, July, and August
to visit schools in the southern hemisphere.
Hunt For Famous Explorers Game
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/Explorers98
We have hunted Country Capitals and Landmarks around the world.
Now, the Kent Learning Center Moderators challenge you: WHO?? are the
people that traveled into unknown places and discovered some of the
landmarks or founded the cities that became capitals? Some of these
explorers may have blazed the way for for others that came later and
founded the cities or built the landmarks.
Pretending we are detectives like in the popular game, Carmen SanDiego,
let's follow the clues to discover who these explorers are!!
Hunt for Famous Explorers is patterened after Hunt for Country Capitals and
Hunt for World Landmarks so many of you already know the rules.
The game will be played between April 27 and May 22, 1998 with registration
beginning April 1. Hopefully this time frame will accommodate all the
Spring Breaks that may occur during the month of April!!
Math Around Us
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Math97
When most of us think about math, we think about it as a subject taught
in school, outside of the context of our day to day lives. But in truth,
math is a fundamental part of our everyday lives. Students participating
in the Math Around Us project will explore different ways to look at
math in the real world.
will run from October to the end of May. Because it is made up
of different activities to be introduced one per month, you can participate in all or
part of the project, whichever best fits your needs. Each month, we will introduce a
new activity.
For open-ended activities, you can begin to send information to the KIDPROJ list any
time after the announced start date and up until the end of May.
For activities with deadlines, there are 2 of these, you begin at the announced start
date and end at the announced end date, because these activities are interactive
and require sticking to deadline.
Music Pals
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Music/
Children can communicate about music that they have
experienced at a local festival. They may also choose to send
photos, cassettes, or videos of themselves talking about or
performing music from a local festival to the project manager.
Memphis City School Orff music teachers will assimilate this
information in a video to be used during a city-wide concert
produced in May, 1998. All information sent to the project
manager is to be used strictly for educational purposes.
This project will begin in November, 1997 and will continue
through May 1998. Memphis City Schools Orff Music (elementary)
teachers are creating a musical concert of world festival music.
If we receive photos, vieodrecordings or cassettes from the
children in your class and use it during our concert, we will send
you a video of our concert. Any photo, videorecording or
cassettes that you may send us will be returned upon request. We
look forward to hearing from our MUSIC PALS!
Virtual China
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/VChina97/
On April 19th, 1998 the first four groups of this year's grade 7 Hong Kong
International School (HKIS) students begin the ninth annual, weeklong
travel study tour of China. Another four groups of 25 students and 7 adults
will depart Hong Kong for China the following week, on April 26th. Also,
this is the fourth consecutive year HKIS will share its travel adventures
and studies with students and teachers around the world through an email
and web-based project called "Virtual China". Students outside of Honk Kong
can easily and comfortably participate in Virtual China '98 if they are
subscribed to KIDLINK and KIDPROJ.
During this year's two weeks of trips HKIS students will once again be
studying the people, transportation, housing, work places, education,
culture, religion and environment of two different areas of China. One area
studied will be Xi'an, China. The other will be the rural China countryside
100-200 miles WNW of Hong Kong. This year an exceptionally large number
of HKIS 7th graders chose to go biking. Therefore we'll have three bike
groups traveling in and around the cities of Longshan and Sunhing to the
north and down through Kaiping (Hoi Ping), Taishan, Duhu, and possibly as
far south as Kwang Hai (Kong Hoi) on the southern coast of Guandong
Province. Each of the three bike group leaders has chosen his or her
sequencing and particular roads to travel between these cities.
At the same time a fourth group of 25 students will be flying about 1,200
miles north of Hong Kong for their studies in and around Xi'an, ancient
capital of China for thousands of years and home of the famous Terra Cotta
Warriors. It is our sincere hope that you can join us in our goal, "To grow
in our understanding, appreciation and respect for the Chinese people and
culture." Thank you AT&T and DELL Computer
For the third consecutive year AT&T is providing assistance with
transmissions from our China travelers to Virtual China '98. Also, this
year DELL Computer Corporation has donated ten Latitude CP laptop computers
which when combined with two others will allow each traveling group to take
three laptops for composing messages, downloading digital images and
attaching these files to daily messages from China. Our goal is to "serve
you the information while it is still warm." Problems in the field may mean
some messages may be delayed a day or two. However, when the information
arrives it promises to be interesting!
Volcanoes--World Under Construction
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Volcano/
Come join us as we investigate these spectacular natural phenomena! Share
folktales that have grown up around the fountaining lava and study the
effects on the surrounding communities when eruptions have hurled gas,
rocks, and other debris into the atmosphere.
Compare volcanoes and volcano lore from around the world. Attempt to
discern patterns in their occurances and effects--on the environment, the
people, and the cultures touched by these fiery wonders.
The project is designed to help children learn:
What a volcano is.
Where volcanoes are located.
The impact of volcanoes on communities nearby.
The folklore of the people who live near an active volcano.
A volcano's impact on the environment.
And volcanoes in space: How our own world can help us understand the geology
of distant space objects.
Words from the Heart
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Words/words.html
The project will start with sharing of participants' names and their
personal and cultural meaning and significance. Although activities are suggested, participants may take an active role in sharing and refining the project to capture each "learning moment" :)
To register, plese email Lynne Sueoka, moderator, with the following
information:
name and email
school and size and grades of group participating
ideas and suggestions for the project
Detailed Description (also available on website)
Curriculum ideas for implementation in the classroom
What's in a name? Activities and sample student responses on
MindSPACE an online class and hangout for thoughtful kids
How is your name written in your native language? How does your
system of writing your name differ from the English translation (i.e.
diacritical markings, special characters, pictograph/ideograph)
Discussion of the students' own language
1.What words are important in your language? Why? i.e. ohana from
Hawaiian
2.How are these words related to our ethnic/cultural identity?
i.e. family is important in Hawaiian culture, the word comes from the kalo
(taro) plant, an important staple in the diet of the early Hawaiians
3.Does the word have any roots or relation to the folklore or myths of the
culture? i.e. story of the kalo
4.What role does the word play in the culture of your countr today? i.e.
there is a resurgence of ethnic and cultural interest and pride in the
values and lifestyle of the Hawaiian people; Leon and Malia song; Hawaiian
studie in school
Selection of 3 words that students feel best exemplify their language's
words from the heart
Sharing of these words, their background, graphical and possibly
audio representations associated with the words
Discussions via email or irc about the various words...comparison/contrast
both in word meaning and linguistic patterns (i.e. some words may come
from the same language branch)
Discussions online about any patterns...are there certain types of
words that seem to carry a lot of cultural/psychoogical weight in all
countries? (i.e. the words for "family" or "home" perhaps)
Disciplines covered:
1.Language arts--word origin, myths and folktales, writing,
comparison/contrast skills
2.Social Studies/History--cultural significance of language
3.Art--pictographs, petroglyphs, symbolic representation
4.Music--folk songs
Wow-Macau
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Macau
The Macau Experience provides a stimulus for learning as well as a means of
extending curriculum and social development. In addition, it's fun ! This
year the 6th graders from Hong Kong International School will be spending
four days, March 3 - March 6, 1998 in Macau, a Portuguese Colony off the
coast of South China about ninety minutes west of Hong Kong by Jetfoil.
In Macau, our students will be involved in a variety of activities
including visits to local museums, cemeteries and temples. They will
participate in recreational activities including hiking and evening
programs.
Our intention is to have a group of 8 HKIS sixth graders capture their
instructional field trip with words and images and share them with other
students around the world. Hopefully we can "serve" this information with
others from the field, while the experiences are still "warm". To be a
passive "virtual" participant watch for our postings in the KIDPROJ section
of KIDLINK.
You can also contribute to a WWWBoard created for your "virtual journey" by
asking questions of our students. If time permits we may be able to answer
some of your questions while we are in Macau. If not, we can answer them
after our return to the HKIS campus on the southern tip of Hong Kong Island.
Virtual Sumatra
Visit our WWW site at http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Sumatra/
Niddle school students and their teacher from an international school in Saudi Arabia will take an exciting two-week trek in a primary rainforest area in Sumatra.
As a Virtual Trekkie, you can learn about the
endangered orangutan, "the old man of the forest", and
its threatened rainforest habitat. Some Virtual Trekkies
have written Rainforest Poems for all to share.
They will hike and camp in the Gunung Leuser National Park, visited the
Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in Bukit Lawang, whitewater rafted and tubed on
the Waupu River, explored a bat cave, and climbed an active volcano in the
Bukit Barisan Range. We also visited the schools, homes and villages of the
fascinating Batak people, joining them in song and dance, then boated, biked, and
hiked around their traditional homeland, Samosir Island in Lake Toba, one of the
largest and deepest lakes in Asia.
Information Contact: Patti Weeg, Title 1 Computer Teacher, Delmar El. School, Delmar, Maryland, USA. Home Page: http://www.globalclassroom.org
KIDPROJ WWW Contact: Grant Dougall, Educational Consultant: Technologies, Saskatoon Board of Education, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA. Web Site:http://198.169.140.21/
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