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TITLE Take a Field Trip through the 1990's. Celebrate the Century Education Series. INSTITUTION Postal Service, Washington, DC. PUB DATE 1999-00-00 NOTE 124p. AVAILABLE FROM United States Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20260-2435. PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom (055) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Elementary Secondary Education; *Heritage Education; Instructional Materials; *Material Culture; Modern History; Social Studies; *United States History IDENTIFIERS *Commemorative Stamps; *Postal Service; 1990s
ABSTRACT Using the "Celebrate the Century" stamp series, this U.S. Postal Service series commemorates the 20th-century and teaches students about the people, places, and events that have shaped this nation during the past 100 years. Each kit is designed to be taught as a complete and independent unit. This kit, which focuses on the 1990s, contains:(1) 10 teacher's lesson cards;(2) a resource guide; (3)30 topic cards;(4) 30 student magazines;(5) a poster;(6) assorted other materials for balloting and storage. The 10 lesson topics include: (1) "Celebrate the Century Vote!"; (2) "Let's Get Stamping!"; (3) "A 90's Round Robin Story"; (4) "Windows on the Future"; (5) "Beasty Game"; (6) "Alien World"; (7) "Your Magnificent Museum"; (8) "Dinosaur Dig"; (9) "How Have We Changed?"; (10) "Fun in the Nineties." In addition to these kits, the U.S. Postal Service is celebrating the 20th century by issuing a limited-edition sheet of 15 commemorative stamps for every decade. (LB)
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TAKE A FIELDTRIP THROUGH THE1990S Your students can not only recordhistory but actually help make it by votingfor their favorite stampsubjects 117. of the19905!
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Dear Teacher or Librarian:
It's hard to believe that the 1990s are about to become history! With your fifth kit in the Celebrate The CenturyTM Education Series, the United States Postal Service invites you to explore the decade that your students helped to create.
Your 1990s decade kit gives you a special teaching opportunity. With it, you can connect your children to the history of our country in a new and exciting way. The kit can be used in years to come to teach students about the 1990s.
With the vote, your students can make history too. The commemorative stamps that are issued for the Celebrate The Century program, 1900 through 1999, will be our legacy into the new millennium.
Your students' votes are very importantin fact, approximately 25 percent of votes cast for the 1950s to 1970s were from children! The subjects from the 1990s that are voted winners will be issued as stamps in January 2000.
The next curriculum kit will cover the first half of the 20th century, 1900s to 1940s, and will be delivered to you in August. That will complete the Celebrate The Century Education Series. Watch for exciting new teaching units that will feature popular commemorative stamps.
We hope that we have helped you to inspire your students with a love of history, the importance of informed voting, and an understanding of the wonderful world of commemorative stamps.
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"It's the economy, stupid!" "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Surf the Web. "No more Vietnams." permit time to pass Life on Mars? "Yacla, Yacla, Yacla." The end of a 50 that they can gain decade and the end of the century are a natural some perspective on time to pause and reflect on where we have been past events. and where we are headed, both individually and as a nation. While the importance of landmark political events is often immediately evident, it takes Celel9rate The CenturyTM has provided Americans longer for the significance of trends affecting with the opportunity to vote for stamp subjects the clay-to-clay lives of ordinary people to that they I2elieve hold significance for each become clear. Some general themes that have decade of the twentieth century. Dy carrying been part of the conversation throughout the the program through the 1990o, we are asking century include the position of the U.S. in world the pul9lic not just to commemorate the past, affairs, the development of a global economy, but to look forward into the future. Your votes demographic changes (from immigration to the will offer a prediction of what might prove to 17e bal9y1200m), and the impact of scientific discov- most important about the1990o. In this eries and technological change. Changes in respect, Celebrate The Centuryn^ is part of a American culture are reflected in our art, music, larger national conversation about the meaning and literature, as well aol2y celebrities and of the recent past and our vision of the future. sports heroes. Fads and popular pastimes, how- IP CTCT"' offers a chance for you to "make the call." ever frivolous they may seem, also say some- thing about who we are as a nation. From big How do you assess the ultimate significance of bands to rock 'n' roll, from I Love Lucy to trends that are Seim-Feld, popular culture helps define us as
--ADP just beginning Americans. to emerge, of events that are Some clear trends have emerged during the just now unfold- 1990s, such as the increasing diversity of our ing around us? nation's population, and the power of computers This conversa- to transform our daily experience. Other trends tion will contin- will only become clear over time, as we continue ue well into the to watch the contours of the post-Cold War next century, as world emerge, punctuated12y events such as the Americans struggle to reach consensus about continuing expansion of NATO, the democratiza- which events define our national experience and tion of the former Soviet Union, and the emer- hold long-term significance. Sometimes this gence of a truly global economy. The outcome of involves a struggle among competing interests this ongoing conversation depends on you. The and differing perspectives, which take time to more you learn about American history and cul- resolve.It also takes time for historic records ture and the more engaged you become in the to become available, and for the individuals conversation about our nation's past and future, involved in current and past events to share the more you will be abia to "put your stamp on their stories. This is why historians generally historYTM."
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YOUR 1990s KIT SHOULD CONTAIN: e Welcome Letter from the U.S. Fostal Service *10 Teacher's Lesson Cards * 1 Resource Guide 30 Topic Cards e 100 Ballots *1 Ballot Return Envelope *30 Student Magazines 1 Foster
Your 1990s Celebrate The CenturyTM Education Kit is the fifth in a series of six kits that will span the 20th century. Each kit is designed to be taught as a complete and independent unit.
If any component of your kit is missing, you can write to us at: Celebrate The CenturyTM Education Series, United States Fostal Service,120 BOX 44342, Washington, PC 20070.- 0001, or call 1-(800)-450-INFO.
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Your 1990s kit is designed with the following objectives in mind: e To enrich and supplement your existing curriculum * To teach children U.S. history with interactive, hands-on lessons * To enable your students to participate as educated voters in the United States Fostal Service's Celel9rate The CenturyTM vote
This is the last call for votes! As we head toward the year 2000, the U.S. Fostal Service is celebrating the twentieth century by issuing a limited-edition pane of 15 commemorative stamps for every decade. Because we wanted this tol2e a uniquely American celebration, we have invited all Americansincluding kidsto vote on the stamps! This vote for the 1990s is the last chance you and your students will have to "Fut Your Stamp On HistoryTM" by vot- ing for the Celebrate The CenturyTM stamps. Be sure your students vote!
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WHICH PEOPLE, EVENTS, AND TRENDS SHOULD APPEAR ON STAMPS TO COMMEMORATE EACH DECADE? THE CLASSROOM We hope that you will enjoy teaching with The American public will decide. reople will your Celebrate The CenturyTM kit. Here are find their Celel2rate The CenturyTM ballots in a few suggestions to help you to use it post offices all across the country. effectively: The first Celebrate The CenturyTM ballot covered the 1950s. We did not I9egin with * Review the Curriculum Grid. Use the the 1900s because of what our research lessons that best fit your curriculum. with the American pul2lic told us. In general, Modify any lesson as needed. people want to vote on stamps for the e Flease note that you don't need to com- second half of the century. They told us to plete all the lessons to vote. let our official Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee decide on the stamps for the 0 The official U.S. Fostal Service voting first half of the century. period for 1990s commemorative stamp subjects will be through May 1999. THE TIMELINE Entries should be mailed no later than May 31, 1999.
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What value does your stamp have? To find out, look it up in a stamp catalog. (Catalogs are usually available in your local library and are sold at the post office.) Or you might show it to a philatelic (stamp collecting) expert. Your stamp's value will depend on its condition, as well as how rare it is and how much other collectors want it. Old stamps are often more valuable than new stamps. That means the new stamps you save today may be worth much more at some time in the future.
Stamps that are unused and well-preserved are often more valuable than stamps that have been used. Old stamps are usually more valuable on the envelope than offespecially if the cover (envelope) has extra postal markings or unusual stamp combinations. Find out before you clip stamps off. TV To Save Your Unused or Used Stamp * Touch your stamp as little as possible. The invisible oil and dirt from your fingers create "wear" on the stamp. If possible, use stamp tongs to handle your stamp. Stamp tongs look like tweezers with flattened tips. (Real tweezers are too sharp to use.)
e Save your stamp in a secure place on a stock sheet, or you can save it in an album or on a StampersTM Card.
oIf you use Stompers Cards, be sure that you have a special box or place to keep your cards safe and dry. Storing and caring for stamps ti Stompers Cards come with mounts. They are small, clear plas- 1/11 tic envelopes made for stamps. Put the stamp into the mount, then stick the mount onto your card. The mount is very important in preserving your stamp's value.It keeps the stamp clean and new looking. Remember, touch your stamp as little as possible.
* Mounts can be bought at a philatelic center or from a stamp dealer. You can use mounts Using a mount to put your stamps into an album, too.
e If you use an album, don't glue or tape your stamp to the page. That will lessen or destroy the value of your stamp. Instead, use a mount or a hinge to attach the stamp to the page. Hinges are inexpensive and can be purchased from philatelic centers or from stamp dealers. A hinge is a small strip of paper that has adhesive on it.
O To hinge a stamp to your album page, fold the hinge and moisten the tips. Stick one tip onto the back of your stamp and the other tip onto your album page and press. Don't stick more of the hinge onto the stamp than you need to. The more of a mark the hinge leaves on Stampers Card and hinge the back of a mint stamp, the less the stamp will be worth.
How TO REMOVE YOUR USED STAMP FROM AN ENVELOPE
To remove a stamp from an envelope float the envelope, stamp side down, in a pan of water. After about five minutes, the stamp will detach and float away from the envelope. Carefully remove the stamp from the water. Use your thumb to gently rub all extra sticky stuff from the back. TV Put the washed stamp on paper towels to dry. Once dry, the stamp should be pressed between the pages of a tele- phone book for 24-36 hours.
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Every cell in the human body has 23 pairs of chromosomes. For every single pair you have, one of the chromo- somes comes from your mother and one of the chromosomes comes from your father. Each chromosome (except the "Y" chromosome) has thousands of genes on it. (The "Y" chromosome, which i5 only in males, has only a few dozen genes on it.) Genes determine a great deal for your body: how you look, how you grow, what diseases you might be vulnerable to, and maybe even how fast you run! All of our chromosomes are matched pairs. That means that every trait has two genes. (A trait is one specif- ic thing about someone, such as eye color.) One of the genes is on one chromosome; the other gene is on its matching chromosome. But because one chromosome Comes from the mother and one from the father, the genes on the paired chro- mosomes can be very different! What happens when the two genes for one trait are different? It depends. Some genes "blend" in a way and influence each other. But some genes are "dominant" and some genes are "recessive." "Dominant" means that the gene is "expressed," or shows up in the person's body, no matter what. If it is paired with a recessive gene, only the dominant gene is expressed. "Recessive" means that the gene is expressed only if both genes are reces- sive. If you have blue eyes I2ut both of your parents have brown eyes, it means that you got one recessive blue eye gene from each of your parents. Beasties Eye color: R. Red. 0= Orange. Red is dominant over Orange. How many combinations of these chromosomes can there be? Here's the answer:
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3. Draw the beasty families. Make sure the I2easties show their dominant traits inyour drawings.
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4. When ready, give another team your four beasty-parents drawings and your four beasty-child drawings. Also give them Worksheet C, PART 1.(Do NOT give them your key, PART 2!)
5. You should get the other team's four 12easty parents drawings, four I2easty child drawings, and their Worksheet C, PART 1.
6. Figure out which !nasty child goes with which beasty parents. You can tell by working it out which genes are dominant and which are recessive.
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This part of the worksheet is your answer key. Keep it secret! Create four beasty families. Give each family a last name and give the beasty child a first name, too. Then mix and match the dominant and recessive genes for your five beasty traits in each mom, dad, and child! (For an example, see Worksheet A.) Make sure each family has a different mixture of genes.
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Answer all of the questions below to create your alien culture. Try to think what really might be true about anoth- er race of intelligent living creatures. Get your imaginations working! Use more writing paper if you need to.
1. Descril2e your alien. What does it look like? How big is it? Does it breathe, and if so, what does it breathe? (Don't forgetit must be able to live on the new planet that the class created together.) What is the alien per- sonality likeshy, outgoing, angry, likely to argue, happy? '(I
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4. What do your aliens eat?
S. How do your aliens get their food? Do they hunt or farm? Do they create it some other way?
6. What is the alien language like? Do they have names?
7. How do your aliens dress?
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9. Create a special holiday for your alien.(It might celebrate something special about the aliens' home planet or the aliens' religion.)
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BEST COPY AVAILABLE foif tOP/rtaft eteterarAkeir A display of framed computer art will help to pique interest in the program. Work with a small group of kids 11-15 years old The 1990's saw an explosion in children's book publishing to present an introduction to computer graphics that covers emphasizing books that reflect the diverse makeup of our recommended software, simple tips and tricks, and a showcase country. Bring these books to the attention of children and of computer graphics created by kids. Be sure to include a families by sponsoring a multicultural book fair, celebrating the display of related books and software that the kids and adults heritages of various ethnic groups through library programs, can check out. and highlighting the best in multicultural literature for children. Hold an all-day multicultural book fair at the library where Exeremtl,aorts people can I9uy books, hear stories, and enjoy foods and crafts from local ethnic groups. Book-related activities at the fair can A program on extreme sports is sure to attract a crowd of range from readings by a well-known children's I2ook author, to teens and adults, including some people who have not used the story times that feature multicultural books, to mini- library before. Invite an enthusiast to talk about training and workshops on identifying and using quality multicultural books preparing for his or her sport, or ask a local sports doctor or in classrooms. Invite parents, grandparents, teachers, children, coach to discuss the topic. Show videos of extreme sports and other book lovers to join in. By cosponsoring the fair with a events, and introduce Web, sites on the topic; a Yahoo search Friends of the Library group, schools, bookstores, and for "extreme sports" will turn up sites such as "Extreme businesses, libraries can strengthen existing partnerships and Sports" (www.extremesports.com) or ESPN's Web site form new ones. (http://espn sportszonecom/extreme/index html). Related I2ooks from the library's collection, such as Jon Krakauer's Into Present a series of cultural celebrations at the library that Thin Air, a Personal Account of the Everest Disaster (Villard, highlight books and other resources for children. Monthly 1997), or Pat Ryan's Extreme Skateboarding and Extreme programs Gall feature presenters from groups such as the Snowboarding (both Capstone Press, 199E3) can I2e used. National Association for the Advancement of Hispanics, the Sons of Italy, and others unique to your community. Performers like storytellers, dancers, and musicians will attract /titeetiot4eewtOow families to the event, and displays of recommended books, Libraries and museums are natural partners in bringing videos, and recordings can encourage families to extend the cultural and educational resources to the puHic. Approach a experience at home. Prepare and distribute booklists for each local museum to present cooperative programs; offer to event, using a common title such as "Telling Our Story," with supplement an upcoming exhiHt with a booklist of related books picture I2ooks, fiction, and nonfiction al9out each group. and videos from the library collection; or invite a curator to present a program at the library on a current exhibit. Work peoemp ForstrPtecove/y with local museum staff and children in your community to put together a time capsule, to be opened at some significant Every librarian knows that the dinosaur section is one of the future date, such as the library's or the town's anniversary. most popular areas in the library. Hold a "dinosaur day" at the library with events geared to chddren of different age groups. No museums in your area? Capitalize on interest in popular For the youngest, a dinosaur storytime can include dinosaur exhibits, such as the "Star Wars" exhibit at the Smithsonian, activities such as passing around a dinosaur "fossil" (made or the recent opening of the new Getty Museum in Los Angeles, from plaster of paris) or helping to draw a dinosaur mural to by offering a virtual museum tour. By highlighting videos, W eb decorate the children's room. For older children, be sure to sites, and books from the art and travel sections, librarians include the latest dinosaur books and hold a "dino quiz" to test can put together a lively program related to national or even children's knowledge of the most recent dinosaur discoveries. international exhibits that will interest both parents and Contact a local science museum or college and invite a dinosaur children. expert to share up-to-date information with children. Contact the Smithsonian Institution
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DOWNwTeD: moved from the "endangered" to the "threatened" list eNDANGeReD IPECIef: an animal or plant in danger of extinction eXTINCT: no longer existing, died out eXTReMe: much more than expected, the farthest possible point esPRelso: coffee brewed by forcing steam through finely ground, darkly roasted coffee beans
Go Re: what golfers say before they hit the ball to warn others to watch out
FOSSIL: the remains, impression, or trace of a plant or animal from an earlier geologic time preserved in the Earth's crust
Ge Ne: a tiny unit inside cells that helps determine traits such as eye or hair color, height, and other qualities that are inherited from parents
HABITAT: the place or environment where an animal or a plant usually lives and grows
I NTeRPLANeTARY: between the planets, in space
ONLINB: connected to a computer system, especially the Internet
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STYLUS: a pen-like device that allows the user to "draw" freehand onto a graphic taHet
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IT; BEST COPY AVAIIABLE THE STAMPS: Your child is one of many students throughout the U.S. who is participating in From February 1999 Celebrate The Century Tm an exciting education through January program sponsored by the United States rostal 2000, the new Service. The Celebrate The CenturyTM Education millennium, the Series is a modern history program that United States teaches kids all about the 20th century. This is Fostal Service will issue the final decade in which your child can put his Celebrate The CenturyTM stamps. or her stamp on history by voting on subjects Explore the1900s through the 1950s for stamps that will commemorate the 1990s. with your kids by collecting the Celebrate (You can vote, too.) CenturyTM stamps already issued for those decades. You can find them at your local post Voting for the '90o is special because your office or online at the U.S. rostal Service Web children know this decade. The '9Os are filled site
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The Celebrate The Centur'jTM vote (postmarked by May 31,1999) is a great eutRio6LuivreetititcYlow\pY-- way to get your students Interested in comMemorative stamps and history. CipzensruMp; story; math.; \ your lesson with a round robin. Ask your students what they 1 / *Begin Technology: word process, g; -ROM based encyclopedia; remember about the 1990e Tell them that the decade of the ninetieo is about interilet access; sprlshet to become history! Show your students the 19906 ballot and explain the Celebrate The Century"' program. Explain that they are going to learn more ' 3o/ 7 Time: One or two class-eriods about the ballot topics before they vote. \A Materials:-/Ballots; postale-paid return envelope Complete as many of the 19905 lessons as you can before the 19906 vote. / --, Lesson 3 is a good starter lesson. It introduces all of the ballot topics with a WorksFeet: See Resource Guide page 8 fun and easy reading and writing activity. Another easy introductory activity is Teacher Prep Time: ro minutes to explore the ballot topics online. (See Technology Extension below, as well as Web sites listed in the student magazine.) e You can Use your Time5liders student magazine as an in-class activity or as a To extendthe lesson, take a field trip to your local post office. Ask take-home activity before your class votes. Many of the 19905 topics are to see the newly issued 19505 Celebrate The Century"' commemorative stamps. introduced through the comic strip and games in the magazine. Also take a look at The Postal Servie Guide to U.S. Stamps. Your local Because many of you have asked us for more ballots, your 19906 Celebrate postmaster may be able to talk to your students about stamp collecting. The Century"' kit includes a pad of 100 official ballots. Please do not Use 6Technology Extension:Students can use a photocopies of the ballot. Be sure to return them in your postage-paid envelope CD-ROM based encyclopedia or Encarta Concise Encyclopedia online on or before May 31,1999.
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A stamp catalog gives all kinds of information about stamps, including their prices Stamp Teacher Prep Time: Minimal, catalogs are available from philatelic centers philatelic stores, and from the United States Postal SeNce. Note that a catalog stamp value i5 a guideline, not a foied prte The condition of a stamp e To concludethe lesson, have children complete Worksheet A Then review the makes a big difference in how much the stamp is worth. current catalog prices with them: 1: $3,000 2: $26, 000 3: 25 cents 4: $40,000 5: $1250 .4" "Superb": A stamp in "superb" condition i5 a stamp of the finest quality.it is perfectly 6: 50 cents 7: $5.50 8: $500 9: $1,100,000 10: $1.40 11: $400 12: 60 cents centered, meaning the image i5 placed perfectly within the white, perforated border The color i5 Very the lesson, create a schoolwide stamp bulletin board. Invite all students in bright, and the gum (adheske) is also perfect. If the stamp is used, the cancellation is light and the To extend the schosi to carefully clip envelopes with stamps and cancellations fir. n the U.S. and abroad and stamp still SeetT15 "fresh," nat battered, soiled, or faded. pin them to the board. Encourage letter writing to friends ard family in other countries in order to C. "Fine": Most catalogs list prices that assume "fine" condition. A "fine" stomp has no flaws, receive international stamps but has average centering. The gum may have light marks on it from an album mount called a 0Technology Extension:To learn more about stamp collecting, visit the "hinge:'"Fine" used stamps will have heavier cancellations and will not be as "fresh" as stamps in U.S. Postal 5eNce Stamps Online Web site
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Shuffle the Topic Cards thoroughly and distribute. Ask your students to read the Topic , Ballot Topics: All io Cards silently. When they are ready, tell them that they are each going to contribute one Time: One clOs period./ or more sentences to the round-robin story. The sentence Mu5t have something to do Materials:Topic Cards; flip chart and marker; easel (optional) with their Topic Card. However, it does not need to repeat actual information in the Topic Teacher PreP Time: Five MiUutes Card. Let the children use the Topic Card to inspire and excite their imaginations. 'N _ 5 4= For example,"Sustained Economic Growth" might inspire a sentence c To conclude,'asksomeone t'a type up the round:robin story with a word such as, "Once there was a woman who was very rich." Junior Golf might inspire a sentence processor. Have the class,create pictures to illustrate it, and make a class book. such as, "John was so nervous before the golf tournament began, that his hands were the lesson, ask students to pick a favorite Topic Card and write an sweating." A sentence inspired by Jurassic Park might be, "Tanya and billy heard the e*To extend indMdual story based on that one Topic Card. thundering footsteps of the T. rex." Your students can submit their writing or Encourage your students to do their best to create a coherent story. The beginning of 6Technology Extension: the story should establish characters and setting. The rest of the story should continue read other students' writing from around the world at the Web sites below. with these characters. The parts where students must make a big leap to connect their KidNews
Ask a volunteer to begin the story. You might follow this format: MidLink Magazine° And 50 on. BEST COPY AVAILABLE PUT YOUR STAMP ON900.2300 HISTORY dEST COPYAVAILABLE LESS Windowsii FuTURE Objective: To be able to think imaginatively about science and technology. In this lesson, students create "windows" on the future of today's technology. CURRICULUM CONNECTION: *To begin___,distribute the six Science & Technology Topic Cards plus Topic Cards for Computer Art and Graphics and Cellular Phones. Divide your class up into Art; Language Arts; Library Research; Science; Teamwork six teams. Each team will work on one topic. Technology: word processing; CD-ROM encyclopedia; Ask students to research their topics in the library and online. (To shorten this Internet access lesson, eliminate research and go on to the next step.) Ballot Topics: Gene Therapy; World Wide Web; Dinosaur Fossil In class, have teams brainstorm among themselves about how the technology of Discovery; Interplanetary Exploration; Virtual Reality; their topic will develop. What might a future cellular phone look like? Would it still Computer Art and Graphics; Cellular Phones; Return to Space use satellite technology? How might virtual reality develop? Where will gene therapy lead? If we can do all that we do now, what will be the next step? What could we do Time: Three class periods better? What might we want that we don't have yet? Materials: Oak tag; art materials; old magazines for cutouts; Assign one team member to write down ideas. Remind your students that glue; pushpins; window shades (optional); Topic Cards "brainstorming" means all ideas, no matter how "silly" or "unimportant" they might Teacher Prep Time: 15 minutes seem, are equally valuable. They should not censor themselves or each other. As a class, share ideas and try to generate even more. Teams should then decide what will be their "Window on the Future." the lesson, ask teams to write letters to the editor of the Drawing: Have each team draw a picture of their future technology on a piece of To extend local newspaper. In their letters, they should explain their own ideas about where oak tag. Be sure that they draw a window frame all around the edges of the oak tag technology i5 going in the future and ask for others in the community to write back. first. At the bottom, there should be a label that says "The Future" and a written We hope 50r1 le of their letters will be published and they will get 50rTle responses! explanation of the drawing and the technology. Students can learn even more Shade: Over the drawing (which 15 the "window"), there should be a "shade." 6Technology Extension: science and technology and have fun at the same time when they visit the online Shades can be made from a larger piece of oak tag. 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Time: One or two class periods Worksheet A provides concrete examples of how dominant and recessive genes Materials: Paper, pencils, and crayons or markers; combine: it also asks children to estimate probability. The possible combinations are Worksheets A, B, and C, Parts z and always four, because there are four chromosomes in the two pairs. However, the Worksheets: See Resource Guide pages 12, 13, 14, and 15 possible expressions of the genes will depend on the number and distribution of the dominant and recessive genes. Teacher Prep Time: 15 minutes Distribute Worksheet D and ask your children to create their own "Beasty" game. Organize the children into teams of two. Explain that each team is going to create a "Seasty" game. Teams will then trade papers and play another team's game. e To conclude,have the class create a bulletin board out of their Have each team make up five "traits" for their imaginary beast that are easy to "Ereasty" games and challenge the whole school to figure out which children go with draw, such as "dominant long tentacles and recessive short tentacles," or "dominant which parents. purple horn and recessive blue horn." Encourage them to get wild and crazy with To extendthe lesson, investigate the latest in genetics research. their beasts. Have them follow the directions on Worksheet C, Parts 1 and 2. (Also see, in your 19805 Kit, the Human Genome Project.) Which traits do we know The completed Worksheet C, Part 2, i5 the team's "answer key." It should be kept the genes for? Which human traits are dominant and which are recessive? Why are hidden from other teams. Working from Worksheet C, Part 2, the team should draw scientists trying to figure out where all of our genes are? pictures of the four sets of beasty parents, drawing each set of parents on a (§5 Technology Extermion______:Students can Osit the Virtual Fly Lab separate piece of paper. They should draw the four beasty children on four separate at Finally, have teams exchange drawings. Along with the drawings, have them selecting the mutations for the two parent flies and clicking the "Mate Designed exchange Worksheet C, Part 1, which tells which traits are dominant and Flies" button, they get a document containing the which traits are recessive. The object of the game i5 to figure images of the parent and offspring flies. Virtual out which child belongs to which beasty parents, based on the Fly Lab applies the correct rules of genetic inheritance dominant and recessive genes. to these mutations to get the offspring. 4111& Aft 4111 SETT COPYAURA 1 I II A "Oka air ,5 ,e I A "1413Slar PUT YOUR STAMP Nair ON HISTORY" 1 90 0 2 0 00 UNITED TASTES ; AlaPdSiiiCSERVICE .r, "- BEST COPY AVAILABLE 111041111014111rWirwurititillPito- 4/1 111114 Objective: To help children better understand cultural diversity and tolerance. In this lesson, students create new alien cultures and practice ways to overcome CURRICULUM CONNECTION: prejudice and discrimination. Language Arts; Social Studies; Teamwork *To begin,divide your class into four teams. Ask: What makes a "culture?" What is a "culture?" Read the Cultural Diversity Topic Card and discuss Technology: Internet access American culture and cultures in other countries. You might discuss differences in Ballot Topics: Cultural Diversity; Interplanetary Exploration language, dress, food, homes, entertainment and games, holidays, schools, and Time: One or two class periods religion. In this context, discuss prejudice and discrimination as it exists in America. Materials: Writing materials; costumes and makeup (optional); What kinds of things do people do to others because of prejudice? (Teasing or Worksheet discrimination because of physical disability, gender, race, nationality, language, Worksheet: See Resource Guide page 16 religion, or mental disability; unequal opportunity for jobs, homes, and education: Teacher Prep Time: 15 minutes segregation of schools and facilities; etc.) Distribute Worksheet page 16 and ask your students to imagine that they are kind aliens from another planet. They are going to emigrate to another world far, far e To conclude,have the children summarize, in writing or verbally, what away, because their own planet is too crowded. they can do to get to know and understand someone who seems different. As a class, have students create, describe, and name the new world. *To extendthe lesson, help the children investigate all the different In four teams, using the Worksheet as a guide, have students create four types cultures in America. If your class is diverse, ask them to get old stories and of aliens and four alien cultures. traditions from their families' places of origin. Create a class cookbook that represents your class' culturally diverse heritage. Once teams have finished creating their alien cultures, ask them to playact some scenarios in which the aliens learn from each other on their new planet. Students 6Technology Extension:To learn about other children around might create costumes or use face paints for the scenarios. They might have dinner the world, your students can participate in one of many online projects that together, create and bring in foods from the "home planet," talk about their home promote understanding among cultures. The longest running is Kidlink worlds, and try to find things that they each like. They might play examples of their 3Er COPYAVAIIABLE .:c1 , (...."' -___ WS 7::'--" K) , Pu YOUR STAMP ON HISTORY UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE MA1 ftV4VIETiKZT BEST COPY AVAILABLF (a)*Or I AVIII.4110 -jpqia AUGNIFICENT MUSEUM Objective: To engage children in the creation of a museum. In this lesson, students design and create their own classroom museum. * To begi_n,read the Topic Cards about Contemporary Architecture and CURRICULUM CONNECTION Museum Attendance. Tell students that they are going to design their own / "Magnificent Museum" in the classroom. If possible, take your students on a field Art; Language' Arts; Library Research; History trip to a local museum before they create their own. Tichnology: Internet access / Choose a space in the classroom to be the temporary home of your museum. c ----- Ballot- Topics: Contemporary Architecture; Museum Attendance Ask children to decide what kind of museum they will create: Science? History? Stamp? Nature? Art? (You can easily fit this museum activity into any other ITime: Thiee class periods -and workat home subjects you are currently studying in class.) Materials: Variable Here are some museum ideas: Teacher Prep Time: io minutes Communications Museum 7 Telephone Museum Space Museum e To concludethe lessori. Invite parents and other classes to visit your Mushroom Museum museum. Seeds Museum *To extendthe lesson, go multimedia! Many museums today have Life at the Beach Museum interactive video displays.If you can, have some of the children create short videotapes to go with their displays. The videotape might be left by the display for Pioneers Museum anyone to view on a W. The TV and VCR for interactive use could be a part of your Museum of Stamps museum. The displays that your students design will depend on What items they want to (§)Technology Extension:Visit WebMuseum, Paris show. Have them begin to collect items for your museum. As well as finding real e Last, ask children to create displays for their artifacts. Paintings should be instructions on How to Build the 5chool MuseumStep by Step. At Global framed and hung. Artifacts and sculpture should be displayed at different Children's Art GalleryTh' BEST COPY AVAILABLE P -94 S ,... .19 Vtinte. r.4 -4". 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Pour more / plaster of Paris into your container until the level rises to about one-half inch above the Materials: Internet access; writing materiali; one or more large dinosaur toys. cardboard bioces; large'garbage bags; plaiter of Paris; toy rubber dinosaurs; chisels and/or screwdrivers; a wooden mallet or a While the plaster of Paris hardens, ask your students to do some research. What's the -handsized building block- latest1990s information on dinosaurs? They can search online, in recently published books, 1 or in magazine and newspaper articles. Before "surfing" the Web using search words, you may Teacher Prep Time: 15 minutes )' want to Use some of these useful Web sites: Much cool dinosaur stuff at REST COPY AVAILABLE PUT YOUR STAMP ON H !STORY... 1 9 00 2 00 0 4 "-;) .7ST COPYAVAILABLE Objective: To demonstrate history through stamps. In this lesson, students compare the 19506 stamp topics to the 19906 stamp topics and discuss how Americans have changed. CURRICULUM CONNECTION: *To 1)egh-ithe lesson remind your students that many stamps are representations of historyboth ancient history and recent history Explain that in 1998 History; Language Arts; Social Studies , many students and teachers from all over the U.S. voted on which stamp topics should Technology: Iiiternet access; word processor represent the 1950s! The 19506 Celebrate The CenturyTm stamps that received the most ) , votes will be issued in May. You can either purchase the 1950s stamp pane at your post Ballot Topics: AU 30 office, or you can access the images on the Internet at Time: One class period , < I 11 .1141>. Materials: Topic Cards; writing materials Find the Topic Cards from your 19506 Kit that match the winning stamp subjects. Read these aloud as your students look at the stamp images Note:You can download the 19505 Teacher Prep Time: 15 minutes Topic Cards from Encarte Concise Encyclopedia Online Some of the 19506 stamp topics are dearty mirrored in the 1990s topics. Compare and contrast the following: using the 19506 stamps. They can mount them on homemade Cands (see 19805 Kit, Lesson Victory Over Fblio (19506) arid Gene Therapy (1990e) Two), purchased Stampers- Cards, or in a special class album. Tail Fins and Chrome (19506) and Sport Utility Vehicles (1990s) To extendthe lesson etther with art or writing, you might have the class U.S. Launches Satellites (1950s) and Interplanetary Exploration (1990s)/ Cellular Phones create a mural in Wnich a 1950s topic changes, decade by decade. Into a 19906 topic. Or you (1990s) / Return to Space (1990e) might have each student pick a pair of topics from the Ws and the '90s to compare and Desegregation of Flblic Schools (1950s) and Improving Education (1990e) contrast in a composition. The Korean War (1950s) and Gulf War (1990s) 6Technology Extension:Students can go to the United Statee Postal Service Web site at Worid Series; Rivals (1950s) and Womeris Sports (1990s) / Baseball Reconds (1990e) stamps help you understand the decade? What do you think will be the important topics in the eat/ 21et centurg What would the stamps that represent thoee topics look like? Use a You might also rim thnough some of the other 19505 Topic Carrls and diecues how things worti processor to mite about a topic of your choice and then illustrate your work for a are different now. You might ask 5Orre of the follming questions: How are things different in futuristic bulletin board. (Hint: Compare stampe wtthin a the 1990s? How are things the same? What scientific or social developments theme such as Science & Technology. In the 19105 occurred between the 19506 and the 1990s? How have attitudes we had the first transcontinental telephone line changed? Why? established. In the 1990s. everyone i5 online because of e To conclude,if you did buy the stamps at the post telecommunications.) office, ask your students to bugin (or add to) your class stamp collection BEST COPY AVAILABLE 4 0 - - -4 r-eve 110,01 THE CENTURY TM PUT YOUR STAMP ON HISTORY' 1 900 2 000 UNITED SMTES Ott POSTAL SERVICE, BEST COPY AVAILABLE f WM. SSO Lutz tbe Objective: To review the decade's history in a lively celebration. Take a half or a whole day to celebrate the decade of the 1990s Here are some suggestions: Introduce the stock market Explain the worirings of buying and selling stocks Ask each CURRICULUM CONNECTION: student to choose a stock and an imaginary (but reasonable) amount of money they will invest. Then have them watch the stock for the rest of the school year. Will they make or lose Art; History; Language Arts; Math; Physical Education; Social money? Calculate the percentage increase or decrease Studies; Teamwork e Make "save endangered species" bumper stickers Technology: Internet access * Create a dior-ama that represents a topic from the 1990s Ballot Topics: All 30 °- Have a multicultural food fest at lunchtime. Ask parents to bring in some foods that are Time: One half or one full day traditional to the cultures (need not be a foreign country). eHave students brainstorm ideas on how to make their school better. Flit the ideas into a Materials: Variable, depending on the activity letter to the principal. Teacher Prep Time: One or two weeks * Surf the World Wide Web Look at images of space taken by the Hubble Space Teleope. (Note To view, students should click on the words or small image and the lange photograph will appear on their screen.) 4' Bring in golf clubs and balls, and give everyone a chance to take a swing on the playground. Try these Web sites: Watch an episode of Seinfeld on videotape. Then have the class create in Encarta° C011Ci5C Encyclopedia Online. a script based on kooky characters in an ordinary town. FOCU5 on character development and story idea. If possible, show the children examples of published scripts .ii6A.11114 La.\ 4 fi REST COPY AVAILABLE wfir - LH CEPIITORZ PUT YOUR STAMP__ ON HISTORY 90 0 2 00 0 UNITED STATES % POSTAL SERVICE 4 `J BEST CuPY AVAILABLE \viol of these most endangetw ivikkoki sisc In May they are 1998. placed on the Secretary of list. 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Some workerssuch as family to do their work and stay in touch with farmers, writers, and some salespeople employers, fellow workers, and clients.In have traditionally had home offices. 1998, there were more than 15 million Technologysuch as personal computers, telecommuters in the United States. fax machines, telephones, and the Internet has allowed others to begin doing work Home.offices save driving time and help the at home that they used to have to do in an environment by reducing air and noise pollu- employer's office. Working at home allows tion. Some employers think that allowing people more tirm for family and community people tc work at home increases pratuc- activities. Some simply like working at tivity. home better than working in an office. Many people run small businesses from their home offices.In 1992, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that about half of the nation's 17 mil- lion small businesses were home-based. 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