You have to be awfully good in a sport to become
a professional player. Hard work and practice are also necessary to succeed.
Can this be applied to any other career? Does this apply to an astronaut?
To a doctor? (question
2/the importance of time managements, etc.)
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/understanding one's need for time management/organization.)
Some of us are good
team workers; some of us work better alone. The team workers are 'members
of the pack'; they work in cooperation with the others until the task is
completed. They are the facilitators. At the other extreme is the 'lone wolf'.
This person prefers to do the job alone. He will develop solutions by deductive
reasoning and attempt to achieve objectives with a minimum of help from others.
Which of these types will work beautifully doing a research, analysis, or
audits? Find among your friends a 'lone wolf' and a 'member of the pack'.
(question
6/understanding one's need for time management/organization.)
Sometimes grownups
are so busy with their lives that they cannot enjoy what life has to offer
them. (question
5/importance of managing stress, and time.)
Plan a "picture taking" outing to some of these
places with your friends.
(activity 5/make a
plan)
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? (question
4)
Plan an 'International
Dinner' to be held at the end of this online project. Gather recipes from
the participants in our project and include them in the menu. Form teams
now to plan the event.
Planning team - (includes your class teacher)
decides when and where the dinner will be held, who will attend and establishes
other teams for the distribution of responsibilities. Finds parent volunteers
to help with the event.
Decorations team - prepares table and room
decorations
Setup Team - arranges the room, tables etc.
Food Team - makes sure a variety of foods are
selected for the menu and recruits student volunteers who will cook the recipes.
Entertainment Team - plans multicultural games,
'quiz shows' and music for the evening.
Publicity Team - creates invitations for the
dinner, posters, arranges for photos, etc.
Research Team - helps classmates find resources
for their chosen country while planning the music, food, entertainment.
Clean up Team - helps tidy the area when the
dinner event is over.
(activity 4/making
a plan)
Plan a Multicultural Sports Day and learn a new
game from a country other than your own.
(activity 12)
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/making
a plan)
Arrange for a
Kidlink Chat meeting and discuss
education. Compare notes on the weather, the animals that teach you, subjects
you like and other things that educate you.
(activity 6/plan
the meeting)
Plan how you are going
to maintain life-long learning. Write an essay or a letter to the others
in the project on how you plan to keep yourself educated throughout life.
What learning methods are you going to use? Will the media (Newspapers, TV,
radio, Internet, etc.) help you to continue learning? Tell the others about
media that you think would be helpful. If they are on the Internet make sure
you send a link to it for the others to see.
(activity 7)
Interview an older person
in your family or community and ask them to tell you about their home when
they were your age.
(activity 2/plan
the interview)
Arrange for a Kidspace
discussion. Debate the concept of open adoption with another class. Decide
ahead of time which school will be the affirmative and which the negative.
Arrange for two students from each class to be the judges.
(activity 4/make a
plan)
Are there strategies
that help us express our opinions in a positive and nonthreatening way? Ask
other participants what strategies worked for them.
(question 9/positive
thinking)
Arrange to meet another class on Kidlink's chat
network and discuss some of these questions.
(activity 3/make a
plan)
Use watercolor or any type of paint and design
a poster for your room asking the other members in your house to respect
your privacy. Make it *positive*, not negative.
(activity 5/positive
thinking)
Create a school lunch menu for 2 weeks. What
foods would you offer? What restrictions would you suggest (no salt added,
low fat content, etc.)?
(activity 3)
Prepare a debate on how much the minimum wage
should be for kids who are old enough to work. Use the Kidlink Kidspace
environment for the debate and invite other schools to watch or take part.
(activity 2/plan the
debate)
Are there tests in your school system that all
students must pass? Do these bring stress to students?
(question 16)
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)
Write a journal for
a typical day at your school. Each student notes what they are doing every
hour on the hour for one whole
day(activity 2/understand
how time is spent)
Plan a debate titled, "Every Family Should Have
Rules." Chose the side you will favor - Pro or Con.
(activity 6/make a
plan)
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?
(activity 10/financial
analysis as a basis for planning)
This is your chance to say farewell, or to make
plans to continue the relationships.
(activity 1)
Plan a festival, just
as you would like it to be, and describe it to your on-line friends. Invite
us to your party, tell us about what you'd like us to eat and what kind of
traditions you have. Will there be stories told or will you sing special
songs? Will there be dancing perhaps? Will you make special decorations?
Tell us about it...
(activity 3)
Celebrate "Grandparents Day" and invite your
grandparents to come to school. Sing songs, write poems, make paintings for
them and honor them with a festivity. Invite them to tell a story to the
class from the days when they were young.
(activity 7/make a plan)
Make a graph of the population growth of your
area since 1950. Write an analysis of this graph. What do the figures show?
How has this effected your country? Discuss the changes in your cities and
the environment because of it.
(activity 2/analysis
as a basis for planning)
Make a timeline and show the natural happenings
of the past 100 years that made an impact on your area such as drought, floods
or earthquakes, etc. (activity
4/analysis as a basis for planning)
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/analysis
as a basis for planning)
Make a personal family timeline and show the
important events in your immediate family.
(activity 6/analysis
as a basis for planning)
Survey your family members and graph the careers
that have been chosen by members in your family. Is there one career that
stands out the most? Why do you think this is
so?(activity 4/analysis
as a basis for planning a career)
The
Discussion
Questions
are designed to help others (potential visitors)
make plans.
Write an invitation: You can write a letter and
send it to the mailing list or you can make a poster with pictures and text
about your area, scan it and send it to the list. Or you can make a web page
with the information you have gathered. Perhaps you would like to make a
videotape and send to those interested in making a visit. A postcard, a
photograph or a picture would surely be welcome. You can draw pictures in
the computer or on paper.
(activity 4/plan
before writing)
The
Discussion
Questions
and
Activities are designed to help participants (potential travellers)
decide where to go and make plans.
Do you need more information than there is in
the invitations? How are you going to organise getting further information
and plan your trip?
(question 12)
Set up a budget for the trip, including
transportation, accommodation, food, entertainment, museums, sport events,
etc. (activity 10)
The
Discussion
Questions
and
Activities are designed to help travellers plan their vacation.
How long will it take? How much will it cost?
Would you be able to go if this were not a virtual vacation but a real vacation?
Compare costs between various offers.
(activity 2)
Write down the places you want to see and things
you want to do on your vacation and send the list to your hosts via the mailing
list. (activity 5)
Find out what is the best way to travel to the
place you are visiting. You might be able to find information on timetables
for flights, trains or other transport methods online. Or you can either
send an e-mail to a travel agency or visit one to find out exactly how you
are going to get to the place you are planning to visit.
(activity 8)
Do you get to the places you had planned or do
you have to change your plans?
(question 12)
How is your budget working? Do you think you
will have enough money? Do you want to have more, or do you still have money
left? (question 13)
Did your vacation go according to your plans?
Did something happen that you hadn't foreseen? Last but not least: How did
you do as a group?
(question 20)
Your plans and schedule for the visit will now
be put to a test. Tell us all about what happens and how your plans work
out. (activity 1)
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