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Self-validation Skills Training

Reviewing thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions, and recognizing that they may be different from another's perceptions and accepting that multiple views can still be valid.

Where do I live? | What Are My Rights? | My Friends And Family
What Are My Roots? | Virtual Vacation

"I hardly believe my eyes, to be surprised, shocked"
Art by Helena, 6C, Slovenia

Who Am I?
  • Who Am I?
    • What is the most popular name in your family? Why do you think it is so? In your school? What is the most popular name for a boy? For a girl? In your country? If you could have a different name, what name would you choose? (question 2)
    • Do you know the meaning of your name? Do you know the meaning of the names in the rest of your family? (question 4)
    • Can you see how a name can tell us something about the person's ethnic origin, nationality or history? (question 7)
    • Do you create your own music? What is your favorite music? Why is it your favorite over the others? Is there a special music for dancing? Do you know any ethnic music and dances? (question 10)
    • Who is your favorite pop singer? Why is he or she your favorite? Do you think his or her name has anything to do with their fame? (question 11)
    • If it is possible, bring your instrument to class and play your favorite piece. If you do not know how to play an instrument, bring a recording of your favorite music or group. What does this music mean to you? If it is a song, what is the meaning of the song? Why is it special for you? Ask your online friends about their favorite songs and music. (activity 8)
    • Write the answer to the question "Who Am I?". Tell about your likes and dislikes, and the things that make you what you are. Save this answer on a disk where you will add the answers to the next three Kidlink questions. (activity 10)
  • What do I want to be when I'm older?
    • Some people are Realistic (the doers), Conventional (the organizers), Investigative (the thinkers), Social (the helpers), Enterprising (the persuaders), Artistic (the creators). Do you know which of these types fits your personality or that of your classmates? Are there any other types beside the ones mentioned here? Can you mention some famous people that can be classified under Realistic? Conventional? Investigative? Social? Enterprising? Artistic? (question 3)
    • When you are in the real world trying to get a job, you have to compete with other people wanting the same position. Simulate a real world situation: Every class will publish online different job positions available in their imaginary companies. State the requirements for the position. Everyone in your classroom and in your online classroom can send their applications stating why they are the best candidates. Choose a person to be the interviewer for each job position. This person will decide which applicant is the most suitable for the job and will recommend him or her. (activity 2)
  • How would I want the world to be better when I'm older?
    • Progress has brought us the development of new medicines needed to cure new illnesses. Are people healthier today than a hundred years ago? Does progress bring more happiness? Why do we have new illnesses? (question 4)
    • Sometimes grownups are so busy with their lives that they cannot enjoy what life has to offer them. Life's most precious joys are completely free. Can you name a few? How do you and your family enjoy life? (question 5)
    • "Our neighbors are our closest family." This saying implies that we have to have a good relationship with our neighbors. We can help each other if an emergency occurs. What else can you add to the advantage of being "good neighbors"? Countries have neighbors too. How can countries be "good neighbors"? (question 6)
    • People come in different colors and shapes. Imagine the world filled with millions of people all looking exactly alike! If we all looked the same, how could we recognize each other? Our differences are what make us special. Even twins have some differences between them. On the inside people are different too. How do you describe yourself? What characteristics do you like in you? In your best friend? (question 7)
    • Imagine you can change anything you want, what would you change? Write an essay explaining the things that make you worry about your family, your school and your country today and how would you like these things to be in the future. Send your essay to the list to share your ideas with the rest of the students participating in this program module. (activity 2)
    • Picture your community in the year 2098. Write a short story describing something in your community in the year 2098 showing the picture you imagine. Give the story a creative title. Make a web page to publish the stories of everyone in the class. Add pictures. Share the address with the other Who-am-I? program participants. (activity 3)
    • Create a drawing that expresses your vision of a better future. Send this picture by email to your online classmates and ask them to do the same for you. Print and label the drawings with the name and country of each artist. Design a giant poster with all the printed drawings. (activity 6)
    • Answer the question "How do I want the world to be better when I'm older?". Add to your saved answers to the questions from the last two lessons. (activity 7)
  • What do I have to do to make the world a better place?
    • You know now how your online friends want their communities to be better. What advice can you give to your friends? (question 2)
    • When we are sad or confused, we just need a word of encouragement from a friend. You are all part of the "global community". Good friends love and protect each other. You know how your friends want the world to be better. What can you do to help them make the world better? (question 3)
    • Friends and family are a very important part of our life. How do you compare a peaceful family life to a peaceful community life? What elements are the common denominator in rivalry between brothers and sisters, rivalry between families and rivalry between countries? How can this be changed? (question 4)
    • Our well being can be protected and destroyed by humans. Who is responsible for protecting our future? (question 5)
    • What is your family doing to protect the well being of your community? What is your school doing? What is your country doing? What are you doing? What else can be done? (question 6)
    • List the ideas you have to help your classmates and your online classmates to make a better world. Add a drawing and send to the list so everyone in your global class can enjoy. Print your favorite letters and organize them in a folder. Share this folder with your family and your friends. (activity 5)
    • Find what are the endangered animals in your region, make a web page with the names and pictures of the animals. Explain why those animals are endangered. Invite the other students participating in the program module to visit your page. Ask them for suggestions that could help to minimize this situation. Add their ideas to your web page. (activity 7)
    • Write a short essay explaining what things you learned by participating in this program module. What things you liked the most? What things if anything, you would change? Your essay should have at least 3 paragraphs. (activity 9)
    • Answer the question "What do I have to do to make the world a better place?". Add your answer to the answers you saved from the past lessons, and use them to register with Kidlink. (activity 10)

Where Do I Live?

  • Can You Find Me?
    • You and your friends have very unique personalities. What do you think you have in common and how do you differ? Do you think that you are shaped by your place on earth, the surroundings you live in, your country, music, what is popular? What shapes you and your friends as you are? Do your friends help shape who you are? Do your heroes shape you? (question 2)
    • What do you like best about your area? (question 23)
  • Living Things Where I Live
    • How many people are in your town or village? Where can you find this information? Does it matter how many live in a community? Does it matter where you live? (question 2)
    • Do you have recreational places for kids in your city with organized fun activities? Tell us about them. What are your favorite activities? (question 14)
  • The Places Where I Learn
    • Tell us about where and how you learn. Describe the places. What do you feel is most important to learn? (question 1)
    • Do you like what is chosen for you to learn? Do you think that the most important things are selected or is there something missing. Could you plan it better? (question 5)
    • What do you learn outside school? Are some people around you that you learn from? Friends, parents, sisters, brothers, grandparents, neighbours? (question 9)
    • Do you see something in the education you are getting that is directly linked to what you would like to be when you grow up? (question 12)
    • How do you think that you get educated by the place you live in? Would you become different if you lived somewhere else? In another country? Elsewhere in your own country? (question 13)
  • Our Global Village
    • What does it mean to grow up as a girl or boy in your country? Are there different expectations for each? Do you think it is done correctly in your country? Do you know about another country that does it better? (question 5)
    • Do you think that there is a prejudice in your area? How would you define prejudice? Share experiences of prejudice, when you felt it and when you showed prejudice if you have. (question 7)
    • Do you feel that people judge you by how you look, talk or dress? (question 8)
    • We know that people in the global village have different opinions and argue. How can we share different opinions in a positive way?(question 10)

What Are My Rights?

  • What Are Rights?

    • What rights do I think I have? (question 3)

    • What is the difference between a right and a privilege? (question 5)

    • Can we demand rights without assuming responsibilities? (question 6)
    • What is one right you want that infringes on someone else's rights? (question 8)
  • The Right To Be Me

    • All of you have our own special personalities, hobbies and interests. Think of some things that are small enough to fit into a shoebox that describe you. If you like to draw you might put a box of crayons or inkpens in your "shoebox." If you like music you would put your favorite CD. Bring your shoebox and contents to school and share with your classmates. Make a list of the items you would put in your shoebox and send it to the mailing list. See what others have done in an exercise like this.

  • Special Needs

    • What do you think are the major challenges facing children with disabilities in your school or in your town? (question 4)

    • Do you think children with disabilities should be included in regular classrooms with all the other students or should they be in classes or schools by themselves? (question 9)

    • What can we learn from disabled people? (question 13)

    • Do disabled kids have less, equal or more rights than you? (question 14)
  • How Can I Be Heard?

    • Is some information harmful for kids? (question 11)

    • Do you think that kids should have the right to privacy? (question 12)
    • As a class brainstorm a list of issues and circumstances for which kids would like to have some input. Divide your list into three areas: home, school, community. Break into small groups and plan ways that your ideas can be heard. Share these with the class. (activity 1)
    • Think of something that you believe should be changed in your town. Write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper or your elected official. (activity 4)
  • How Can I Be Safe?

    • Do you have a certain time, set by your parents, when you must be home on weekends? Did you and your parents decide the time together? Does your town have any laws that say when kids should be home at night? Do you think this is a fair rule? Are there different rules for summer and winter? (question 1)

    • Should parents limit the number of hours that kids watch TV? Do you think TV shows have too much violence? Is this harmful to kids? (question 2)
    • What are anorexia and bulimia? Search the Web for information. Is the information you found reliable? How do you know? (question 7)
    • Do you think some drugs are dangerous to your health? Are some controversial drugs tolerated in parts of the world? (question 9)
    • Are there lessons in school about harmful drugs? Do you think many kids in your town are hurting themselves by using drugs? (question 10)
  • Children @ work

    • Do you think kids should get an allowance from their parents? Should this allowance be earned for doing chores? (question 1)

    • Should kids work for money? Are you taught how to handle money? (question 6)

  • Do I Have Rights At School?

    • What subjects would you like to be taught that are not offered in your school? Do you have something to say about how and what is taught in your school? (question 11)

    • Is multicultural education a part of your curriculum? How do you think you should be taught about other cultures? (question 14)

    • Do you feel that mistakes are allowed in your school? What kind of mistakes are allowed and what are not? What are the consequences when you make a mistake? Do you think the rules are fair? (question 17)

    • How do you feel in school? Is it a happy place to be? It is stressful? Are students kind to each other? How do you want your schoolmates to treat you? How do you think that you should treat them? (question 18)
    • Do you feel that you are challenged to think? Are you learning things that have meaning for you? Is your school helping you with all your educational needs? (question 19)
    • Read what others say about their schools. Tell them what you think about their school and ask for clarification about things you don't understand. Is there something in the schools that others have that you don't have? Would you like to have it? (activity 3)
    • Write a haiku that tells your principal one thing you would like to have in your school but you don't have. Illustrate your haiku using your favorite medium. (activity 4)
    • Read the Math Anxiety Bill of Rights and compose your own bill of rights for any subject in school. (activity 5)
  • Making It Happen

    • What are 10 things that all kids everywhere should have? Tell the group why you think these 10 are the most important things. See activity #1 below. Using each class Bill of Rights work together as a whole group and create one "Kids' Bill of Rights". (question 1)

    • Do you think all kids have these rights today? (question 2)
    • If you had to be denied two of the rights on your list which two would you choose? Tell the group why. (question 3)
    • What do your parents think about your desired rights? How can you live with the situation you're facing if they do not agree? (question 4)
    • Do you think that along with rights come responsibilities? (question 5)
    • Do kids' rights and responsibilities differ from teachers' rights and responsibilities? (question 6)
    • Do you know any places where kids do not have the rights you listed above? What are the rights that these kids are lacking? Do you think this is fair? Do you think there is a way to make things better for them? (question 7)
    • What can you do now to make the world a better place for all kids? Think about the fourth Kidlink question that you answered. (question 9)
    • Write your own 'Kids' Bill of Rights'
      • Divide your class into small groups and decide on 10 things that all young people everywhere should have. Write these on a large sheet of paper.
      • Display your chart and explain it to the rest of the class. Do you have all the things on your Bill? What prevents you from having them?
      • Make one "Kids' Bill of Rights" for your class.
      • Make a banner with the Bill of Rights and display it in the classroom. (activity 1)
    • Make a collage or drawing using chalk, watercolors, or ink that shows what you think your 10 most important rights are. Display these art works for all in your school to see.(activity 2)
    • Search the Web to find places where children around the world do not have rights that you have. What sources did you find? Is the information reliable? How do you know? (activity 3)
    • List ways you can help these children have more rights. (activity 4)
    • List 5 things which should be done in the classroom to make sure that all are happy and safe. (activity 5)
    • Discuss your responsibilites to your school. As a class, agree on one responsibility that can be improved. Do a project that will help this responsibility become a reality. (activity 6)
    • Make a chart with two columns - 'rights' and 'responsibilities.' List rights and the responsibilities that go hand-in-hand. Add your own ideas to the chart. (activity 7)
    • Write articles for your school newsletter and community newspaper about children's rights. (activity 10)

My Friends And Family

  • Important Relationships

    • What are the qualities of a good friend? If you needed a new friend, what qualities would you like him or her to have? (question 1)

    • How do you know that a person is your friend? Does your friend have to say something or do something to be your friend? (question 2)
    • How do you take care of your friend and how do you keep your friend as a good friend? Is it important to listen to your friend? Should friends be able to make mistakes sometimes but still keep their friends? Do we sometimes have to forgive when we have friends? (question 3)
    • Did you choose your best friend, or were you "chosen"? What made you choose her/him as your friend? Why do you think you were chosen? How would you feel about not being "chosen" as somebody's friend? (question 4)
    • What is important for you when you choose a friend? Is it important for you that your friend is popular among the others? Does it matter if others think that your friend is "cool" or not? (question 5)
    • Is it important what a kid looks like whether you choose him or her for a friend? (question 6)
    • Would you consider having a friend with another skin colour than your own? Do you think this would cause a problem for you? Tell us why or why not. How could you solve such a problem? (question 7)
    • Some kids are afraid of making new friends. What could help a new kid in your school or neighbourhood to make new friends? What advice would you offer to people who have trouble making friends? (question 8)
    • Do you know how it feels not to have a friend? If you were ever in this situation how did you finally make new friends? Was there one person who was very kind to you who helped you meet new friends? (question 9)
    • In this activity everyone in the class begins by writing 6 things that characterize a good friend. By the end of the activity you will narrow your class's list to only a total of 6. This is how you do it:
      • Each and every one in the group or class makes a list of the 6 most important things that characterize a good friend.
      • Divide into 3 groups and make a new list with the 6 most important words from your group based on your individual lists.
      • Write the words from the 3 groups on the blackboard. Then the whole group or class has to make a list of the 6 most important words.
    • Consider these questions after you have finished the classroom activity:
      • Why did you choose these 6 words? Why are they the most important?
      • Did you discover that many of you listed the same words in your lists? Why do you think this happened?
      • Did you get any of your own words on the list for the group or class?
      • How did you feel when you did?
      • If you didn't get any of your words on the this list, how did you feel?

      Send your 6 words to the mailing list, and add a few lines about why you chose them. Please add a few sentences telling how you felt about doing this activity. Print messages sent from other participants and discuss them in your class. Compare the words the others have chosen with those of your own class/group. (activity 1)

    • Create a friendship "garden" on your display board. Make paper flowers and place your special words on the petals of the flowers. Place small pictures of your class all around the garden. (activity 2)
    • For a whole week do something nice for your classmates but do it secretly. Think of little kindnesses you can do without telling the person you did it. (activity 3)
    • Finish the sentence: "A friend is one who..." and make a display of these sentences in your classroom. Place them around the room with an illustration to decorate them. (activity 4)
    • Make a list of popular songs that are about friendships. With your teacher's permission bring the songs to school on tape or CD and play them during a "friendship" class. (activity 5)
    • Write "Friendship Poems" and post them in KidSpace. (activity 6)
    • Draw a picture of someone in your life who has been a good friend for you.(activity 7)
  • Resolving Disputes

    • What causes disputes among people? Does competition for material things, like who has the "right" clothes or what is the coolest music, lead to a lot of disputes? Are misunderstandings more likely to lead to trouble? (question 1)

    • Do people sometimes start trouble just for the "fun of it?" If so, why is it "fun?" (question 2)
    • Why do you think people start making trouble in the first place? (question 3)
    • What if the friends you hang out with want to do something you don't? What do you choose - go with your friends or do "things" your own way? (question 4)
    • How can you try to have some influence in your group? Do your friends value your opinion? (question 5)
    • Do you act differently when you are with your friends than you do when you are alone? If so, why? (question 6)
    • Bullying is a kind of conflict that concerns many people. In your opinion what is bullying? Why do bullies do what they do? (question 7)
    • How should we deal with bullies? How should we help their victims? (question 8)
    • How do you and your friends mix with your family and your family with your friends? Do you find yourself getting into arguments with family members about your friends or with friends about family members? (question 9)
    • Which side do you choose if there is a conflict between your friends and your family? Why do you choose like this? (question 10)
    • How do you resolve disputes? Do you try to avoid people you disagree with? Do you find that listening carefully for what the other person really wants and needs can help? (question 11)
    • Does a third person sometimes help resolve disputes? (question 12)
    • Do rules and regulations sometimes help (or hurt)? (question 13)
    • Make an individual list of causes of disputes among friends. Work out a list together, based on what each of you have written. (activity 1)
    • Print out e-mails about this from the others on the list, read them and compare them with your own. (activity 2)
    • Make a short role play about bullying where 4-5 actors take part. Decide in the group how your play shall end... with a happy or sad ending. Write the text and send it to the list. Print out the role plays which you receive by e-mail and play them in class. Let us know what you think about the plays you have received by e-mail. (activity 3)
    • Look through daily newspapers and find examples of local and world disputes. Place them on one side of a display board. On the other side of the display board place newspaper articles showing where people have resolved their problems peacefully. (activity 4)
    • First impressions are not always correct. After we get to know a person well we can sometimes see good things about them that we didn't see right away. Think of a person who was not at all what you thought he or she was when you first met him or her. Share these experiences with your class in small group sessions. (activity 5)
    • Divide your class into small groups and discuss times in your favorite TV shows where people settled their disputes. What did they do to settle them? What were their strategies? Add your own ideas for ways to settles disputes and present the ideas of your small group to your whole class. (activity 8)
  • Dealing With Loss

    • If your loss was through death, did you participate in religious rituals? Do you think children should attend funerals and visit grave sites when family member die? (question 3)

    • Did you try to stay very busy so you wouldn't think too much of your loss? How can staying busy help you deal with loss? (question 4)

    • What things can help you feel better when you are sad about the death of a friend, family member or pet? (question 6)

    • How do you now feel about the loss of your friend or family member? Does the passing of time help us feel better when we are sad because we have lost a loved one? Have your feelings changed very much since you lost the person? If so, how? (question 7)

    • How do you feel about death? Are you afraid to think about it? Do you often think about death when a loved one is ill? Would you like to share your thoughts with some of the others in your class or with all of us working on this project? (question 8)
    • Do you think it is OK for kids to cry and be sad or angry when they lose a loved one? (question 13)
  • Rules and Roles

    • Where are you in the birth order in your family? Are you the oldest, youngest or in the middle in your family? Do you think the oldest child has a special role in a family? Are there privileges that the youngest child enjoys? Do you think that the middle child in a family has a lesser role? (question 1)

    • What are your roles in your family? What changes in your role, if any, would you make if you could? (question 2)
    • Do you think young people should have responsibilities in their family? Can you expect that adults do all the work at the home? Why not or why? Be prepared to defend your answer with reasons. (question 3)
    • Do you have grandparents living with you in your family? What should be the roles of older members of our families living with us such as elderly grandparents? (question 4)
    • How do you see your responsibilities in your own family? What are they? Did you choose them? Are you happy with them? Would you change any of them? (question 5)
    • Are there differences between the responsibilities that girls and boys, fathers and mothers should have in a family? Should there be chores that are "girl's chores" and "boy's chores?" Can girls take out the rubbish as well as boys? Can boys do dishes as well as girls? (question 6)
    • Do you think responsibilities are fairly divided among your family members? If you don't think so, how would you makes changes that would be more fair? Do you think you should do more - or less? If so, why? (question 7)
    • Do you get paid for your job? If so, how much? Do you think kids should get paid to do chores in the home? If you think you deserve better pay what can you do? (question 9)
    • Do you think your negotiation tips can be used in other areas you want to change? If so, in what areas? (question 11)
    • How have you changed as a family member over the past two or three years? Do you think that you will see your place in the family from a different point of view as you get older? How do you expect to change over the next few years? Do you think you will need reminding when it is time for chores as you get older? (question 12)
    • Are there rules in your family? Do you think rules are important for a family? Defend your answer. Would you be happier if there were no rules at all in your family? (question 13)
    • Who decides what rules are to be used in your family? Do you have any voice in the rules that you must follow? Do you think kids should have a voice in the family rules? (question 14)
    • Should a child's room be his own place and not subject to family rules? Do you think you should be able to decorate your room in any way you wish? (question 16)
    • If you become a parent what rules do you think you will make in your family? Will you give your kids a chance to help make family rules? (question 17)
    • Write a persuasive letter to your parents asking for more allowance or pay for your chores. Be sure to include at least three valid reasons to persuade them. (activity 5)
    • Families are expensive. Make a survey about how much it costs to provide for an average family in one week in your class. Talk to your parents and make a list of all expenses including food, mortgage, phone, insurance, car, petrol, movie, sweets etc. While working with this activity, please consider these questions:
      • What do we really need to have a good life?
      • Are there "things" we could do without?
      • Do material goods make us happy - or are there other values in life?
      • Does your feeling of having a good life grow with the amount of money you spend?

      Send the results from your survey to the mailing list. Make graphs comparing the results from the other messages sent to the list. (activity 10)

    • Write some rules you think would be necessary to improve things in your classroom. Vote and choose in your class which are the most important rules. Put the rules chosen in a list in your classroom for everybody to remember. Try to follow the rules for a week. Tell us what happened. (activity 12)
  • Celebrations And Family Gatherings

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What Are My Roots?

  • Lesson 1: Meet My Family

    • Are there certain members of your family that you only get to see on these holidays? Which family member do you enjoy seeing the most? Why is this so? What makes this person special to you? (question 2)

    • How do you feel about this travel if you must do it? Must you go with your family? Do you ever feel that you are too old to travel with your family? Would you rather spend holiday time with your friends instead? (question 5)

    • Are there holidays celebrated at your school that you are not allowed by your religion to participate in? How does this make you feel? (question 8)

    • Are you allowed to practice your religious customs in your school? Some students fast during Ramadan. Do you think they should still have to go to the lunch area with their class? (question 9)
    • Does your school close during your religious holidays? If it doesn't do you think it should? (question 10)
  • Lesson 2: By Land, Sea or Air

    • Why do you think people move from one country or part of the world to another? List your reasons and give examples in history. Share this with us on the mailing list. (question 1)

    • What factors encourage people to leave a country for another? (question 2)
    • What conditions encourage people to stay in a country? (question 3)
    • Do you think moving to another homeland involves sacrifices or hardships? What are some of the sacrifices that your ancestors might have made in order to move? (question 5)
    • Are students in your school encouraged to share their heritage and cultural richness? How do you and your friends benefit when kids from other cultures share their customs, language and festivals? (question 11)
    • Do you ever feel that your culture is under attack? Do you feel that your culture is changing or losing its identity because it is assimilating elements from other cultures? Share these concerns and ask the other students in our mailing list how they feel. (question 12)
    • Is it easy for older students and families to find jobs when they arrive in a new country? (question 13)
    • Divide your class into groups and brainstorm the reasons why people leave a country and why people want to stay in a country. Display your reasons on a chart in your classroom. Place flags on a world map to identify countries where a large number of people are leaving their homeland today. Identify countries where people want to go when they flee. (activity 1)
    • Pretend that you are one of your ancestors who has moved to a far away country. Write a letter to one of your family members back "home" and tell about your journey. What means of travel did you take? How long was the trip? What hardships did you have to endure? (activity 4)
  • Lesson 3: Looking Back in Time

    • Find pictures in books or from family photo albums that show what your area looked like 50-100 years ago. How has it changed? What buildings are there now that weren't years ago? Do you like the changes? (question 4)

    • What natural events such as floods, famines or wars changed the course of the history of your area? What strong figures in your country emerged as leaders in time of crisis? How did they help shape the lives of the people of your country? (question 6)

    • Make a timeline and show the historical events of the past 100 years that changed the course of history where you live. What might you expect to see in the next 100 years of that timeline? (activity 5)

  • Lesson 4: As My Branch Grows

    • Do you think that your ancestors thought about their future generations and how life would be for them? You are that future generation. Do you think that your ancestors handed down to you a world that is better than they had? Be ready to defend your answers. (question 3)

    • What kind of a world do you hope to see your children and their children have when they are growing up? What things would you change in our world as it is today? (question 4)
    • What career do you hope to have when you are older? Has anyone else in your family chosen the same career? Has anyone in your family inspired you to choose a certain career? (question 5)
    • If you could look into the future for your children what do you think you would see? How would life be different? How are you preparing for your future? Is there anything you can do right now to prepare? How did your ancestors prepare for their future? (question 6)
    • How can family members support each other as they grow into adulthood? Ask your parents if they think it was easier to be a kid when they were young or if they think it is easier for you in today's world. (question 7)
    • What family traditions does your family have that you would like to see passed down to future generations? Explain them to us on the mailing list. Have you started any new traditions in your family recently that will be passed down? (question 10)
    • If you could make one contribution to the future of your children what would it be? What invention would make life better for future generations? (question 11)
    • Do you think we have a responsibility to the take care of our earth today so that our future generations have a healthy and safe place to live? What are some things we can do to show that we accept this responsibility? (question 12)

Virtual Vacation

  • Inviting friends

    • How can you make your area interesting to others? Are there interesting places in the neighbourhood? Did anything interesting happen there in the past? Did any famous people ever live there? (question 2)

    • How big is your country? How many people live in your country? How many people live in your area? What kind of an area do you live in (rural or urban)? Do you think it makes a difference for kids whether they live in a town or on a farm? Do you think environmental issues are treated well in your country? (question 6)

  • Where do you want to go?

    • Have you travelled in your own country? What did you find most interesting? What did you like best? (question 2)

  • Planning your 3 day visit

    • Look at traditional souvenirs in your area which you could take with you as a gift. Why are these things souvenirs at your place? Do they reflect your place as you see it? (activity 3)

  • "Journeys" and "Visitors"

    • How do you behave as a guest? Do you have to take special things into consideration? Why? Do you think you are a good guest to have? (question 6)

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