#1338. Dream Machine

Social Studies, level: all
Posted Mon Oct 4 12:54:24 PDT 1999 by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (director@singerfoundation.org).

Harry Singer Foundation, Carmel, California
Materials Required: we provide forms and examples
Activity Time: Could be done in a week, except for the time
Concepts Taught: gathering and organizing information, knowing how a community works

Dream Machine in a Nutshell: students gather data, translate it into information and maintain it. We provide forms and examples and initially display it using our equipment.

Until they have Front Page installed, students send their information to us via email and snail mail. We display it on the web where they and everyone in your community will have access to it. A few students maintain it via email.

Funding for "wishes" discovered by polling provided from $1,000 to $10,000 per working pilot project.

Dream Machine in a Nutshell: students gather data, translate it into information and maintain it. We provide forms and examples and initially display it using our equipment.

Until they have Front Page installed, students send their information to us via email and snail mail. We display it on the web where they and everyone in your community will have access to it. A few students maintain it via email.

Time: Could be done in a week, except for the time it takes to set up appointments with non-profits in the community. The whole school would be involved with some classes putting in as little as an hour and the "project class" taking as long as a month (because of involvement with outsiders). Total classroom discussion and homework time estimated at approximately sixteen hours for the "project class". All other classes would vary between a one to eight hour commitment.