Participation in the Making Our World Better program will allow students to practice many skills and concepts in a variety of subject matter areas, including Language Arts/Writing, Math, Social Studies, Science, Technology, Other Languages, Public speaking, Art and Drama, Library Science, Health Education, Team Management Skills.

Life Skills

1. Self-awareness; understanding own needs & desires; increasing self-esteem and self-responsibility.

2. Make informed choices (decision making skills; goal setting.)

3. Critical thinking

4. Dialogue to understand

5. Negotiations (learn to convince)

6. Empathy (developing positive social skills.)

7. Reflection (thinking back on beliefs or motives)

8. Praxis (a cycle for taking action: making informed choices, taking action based on choices, reflective thinking about the effectiveness of choices).

Language Arts/Writing

1. Represent their material by talking and listening to others.
2. Make reports writing, talking and taking pictures
3. Writing a self-presentation
4. Researching newspapers and magazines to find out what professional options exist.
5. Comparing and contrasting ideas from several sources
6. Conducting interviews
7. Contacting global partners.
8. Looking for interesting and dynamic ways of publishing interviews, news and other content related to the main topic
9. Updating, revising and maintaining web pages to ensure quality
10. Using appropriate vocabulary to ensure a clear presentation of text
11. Using the steps within the writing process
12. Writing for different audiences and purposes: to inform, to express personal ideas, to persuade
13. Writing in different forms including informative essays, posters, postcards

Math

1. Classifying information into categories
2. Identifying time zones and calculating times for real time interactions
3. Using graphic organizers for comparing and contrasting information
4. Calculating the size of text files and images to allow easy navigation in the pages
5. Choosing the best ways of solving problems of "heavy" pages with big files
6. Creating timelines and setting goals
7. Calculating basic mathematical operations

Social Studies

1. Collecting information and learning about different dreams and plans students in different countries have.
2. Learning about world problems and solution opportunities in other countries
3. Describing one's own dreams for a better world.
4. Promoting interviews with adults knowing about solutions that might contribute to better the world as desired through Kidspace or other interactive tools
5. Using maps to locate countries
6. Working and negotiating in cooperative groups.
7. Understanding multiple perspectives among diverse cultures
8. Keep portfolio (blog) of working process over time

Science

1. Applying information for problem solving

Technology

1. Locating a web site using searching skills, searching the Kidlink archives for the four questions.
2. Practising the use of a word processor
3. Accessing and utilizing E-mail
4. Locating a web site
5. Making a personal home page (KidPage)
6. Participating in IRC and/or KidSpace Chat sessions
7. Design graphic.
8. Use blogs (diaries) with text from a computer or phone (SMS), pictures by phone (MMS) and e-mail to blogs.

Other Languages

1. Engaging in conversation with students in languages other than the native tongue
2. Developing strategies for overcoming language barriers in global communication
3. Practising grammar and syntax in a real world situation
4. Increasing vocabulary
5. Creating dictionaries of words and phrases in other languages
6. Writing an invitation in a foreign language
7. Listen to and talk in foreign language

Public speaking

1. Communicating results of research
2. Planning, promoting and describing ambitions and plans.
3. Justifying and defending opinions
4. Expressing ideas in a real time situation using IRC and KidSpace.
5. Representing their speech online for others to hear and get comments.

Art and Drama

1. Analyzing and comparing web pages to find examples of good design
2. Analyzing colors and their meaning in a web page
3. Choosing the best web elements to present oneself
4. Creating graphical illustrations, buttons, rules and banners to add to web pages
5. Creating backgrounds for web pages
6. Creating and locating beautiful and useful images for web pages
7. Using effects such as textures and shadows in pictures or graphical illustrations

Library Science

1. Searching for information using printed and electronic media
2. Evaluating reliability of information
3. Gathering ideas from human sources - peers around the world and grown ups in their own area
4. Categorize their knowledge documented in online diaries such as blogs

Health Education

1. Dealing with interpersonal relationships, accepting students from different cultures

Team Management Skills

1. Challenging processes that are not working towards the goals of making this world better
2. Communicating ideas clearly
3. Contributing to the development of a supportive climate in the network
4. Demonstrating respect for others in the network
5. Identifying goals and values important each member of the network
6. Identifying strategies to deal with unexpected situations
7. Identifying and using individual abilities and strengths to reach common objectives
8. Identifying and dealing with causes of conflict and misunderstanding
9. Identifying possible times for discussions with other participants using IRC
10. Locating outside support for joint plans to promote desired improvements in the world
11. Negotiating effectively and with respect
12. Providing feedback to network members in a constructive manner
13. Comparing and finding what is shared with others and how to link to knowledge other participants create and evaluate it.

21st-Century Skills: Literacy in the Digital Age - A research-based discussion of the skills required of the Knowledge Economy's workforce: Digital-Age Literacy, Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication, and High Productivity. 2003