The activities and discussions below are suggestions. Use these as a guide
for completing the program. You may always substitute other activities that
are more suitable for your needs.If you have problems you can always
contact people in the KidCom rooms for teachers.
Lesson
plan:
Introduce yourself or your team to the others
in the KidCom KidCafe rooms, or in another rooms set up for your
project..
Visit your
KidPage,
and read your answers to the 4
Kidlink questions.
How did you answer question 3 and 4?
Do you still have these dreams for the world?
If your dreams have changed or become more defined explain the changes.
Brainstorm, evaluate options and narrow your possible dreams to a few.
Search the
KidlinkRegistration
database for 6 month, and collect data
for questions 3 and 4.
Categorize the types of youth dreams you find in the database.
List the dreams that are similar enough for you to work on them together.
Print out the responses and make a bulletin board or hang them throughout
your school if your team has joined I
Have a
Dream as a class.
Make some research to support your dream.
Look in newspapers (paper and online) to see what is happening in the world.
Are there common needs worldwide?
What do you want to change in your country and the world today?
Share your thoughts and the reasons for them with others doing our program.
Examine the results of your research.
Do the web pages you find tell facts or someone’s opinion about world
events and the circumstances about them? How can you be sure they are factual?
What is the source?
Who is the author of the text?
Are the pages dated?
Is there an e-mail address for contact?
Is information supported by data with references?
Which world problems are relevant for your project? Which ones impact the
most people? Which reflect serious needs?
Which problems can you realistically address?
Can you make a difference in the world today?
List ways that youth today can do this.
How do you think your vision for making the world a better place addresses
the problems of the world as you see them?
Are there some things you would like to see made better?
What things would you like to see eliminated?
What events in history started as dreams and then developed further into
affecting the lives of people?
Which of these events brought benefits to earth's inhabitants?
Have some dreams had a negative effect on the earth and those who live on
it?
How do you see your ideal world in the year 2025?
What does it look like?
If it is a better world list the ways it is better.
Has technology changed the dreams we have?
Interview people to find out and share these interviews
in KidCom.
Could inventions increase the opportunity for your dream to come true?
Does more knowledge in science help people make their dreams come true?
Write a piece about your own dreams and share it with others
in KidCom.
Define the main idea of your dream.
Justify your dream with supporting details that list the benefits of your
dream to those who live on earth.
Use KidCom and KidMail to
exchange views with other participants.
Share your thoughts and the reasons
why you have them with others doing our program using KidCom or
Kidlink´s
KidSpace environment.
Read carefully what others have written and make thoughtful responses to
what they have said.
Make contact with possible partners in your dream project using e-mail.
Decide on one dream for your team.
Divide your team into groups (for different dreams or different tasks within
one dream).
Start planning a webpage about your dream to put in KidSpace, or on your
school's web server later.
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