Word: projects
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...KIDS, TIME's classroom magazine. The issue is the culmination of an effort begun in the fall, when TFK issued a challenge to its readers in Grades 4 through 6. This challenge was not for the homework faint-of-heart: students were asked to conceive, plan and execute a project that would improve some aspect of the environment in their community. TFK promised to publish a report on standout projects in the last of its three-part series of environment-themed special issues, produced with the support of Ford Motor...
...give kids ownership of the world every week in TIME FOR KIDS," says Martha Pickerill, TFK's assistant managing editor, who oversaw the Kid Heroes project. "This special issue allowed us to do that even more directly. Our readers got the chance to really take action...
Another successful project was the brainchild of a fourth-grade class in Lake Isabella, Calif. The class had been studying trout, an integral but beleaguered species in the area. To educate their community and tourists about the fish's plight, students built a model trout stream, complete with signs describing the trout's life cycle. Their handiwork will now welcome and enlighten thousands of visitors each year...
...most ambitious responses to TFK's challenge came all the way from Guaynabo, P.R. Third-graders there planted more than 1,500 trees and flowers in areas that had been devastated by Hurricane Georges. "What I liked about our project," says Nicole Rodriguez, 8, "is that planting makes people feel proud, and we get other kids to join...
LUCAS: If you're trying to build an icon of evil, you have to go down into the subconscious of the human race over a period of time and pull out the images that equate to the emotion you are trying to project...