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Lesson Plans
- Provides a lesson about the role of technology in our world. 11-99
Lists
- Provides a list of activities supporting meditation or prayer around the advent of the new millennium. 11-99
- Provides resources on the future. Also provides summaries of the past for context. 7-99
- Provides activities, such as proclamations that can be initiated by classrooms, to support one day of peace, January 1, 2000. 11-99
- Provides resources by topic.
Papers
- Provides a summary of the past 100 years in terms of pollution, income, population patterns, and more.
- Provides a countdown by seconds, minutes, hours or days. Also provides countdowns to and from dates you specify, such as a birthday or other key event.
- Invites global participation in a "twenty-four-hour meditation for world peace at the end of the 20th century, culminating in dedication of prayers for all beings throughout space on January 1st. " Starts at the first light of dawn on January 1st.
- Awesome Library's challenge to collaboratively develop a future that focuses on our children as our foundation. Provides a forum for discussing our next 50 years.
- Provides an essay, Humanity at a Crossroads, on our current situation and what we need to do for the next millennium. 11-99
- Provides a sample of celebrations for the millennium. 1-00
- Provides stories about the past century and the new millennium. 11-99
- Provides a poem, My Dream 2000. 11-99
- Provides an essay about overpopulation. 11-99
- Provides historical information on how the first millennium was handled, among other historical issues.
- Calls for January 1, 2000 to be designated as a day of peace. Provides quotes from celebrities.
- Provides updates on what government and business are doing to combat the millennium computer bug.
- Provides the times for sunrise and sunset in the USA for 22,000 cities and towns to help coordinate celebrations of the Year 2000. 9-99
Projects
- Provides a momentum for communities of faith to work together toward uprooting the basis of conflict. 11-99
- "USA TODAY's News of the Century national contest challenges students in grades 4-12 to select and research the people, places and events that impacted a year of the 20th century." 11-99
- Provides Presidential comments related to the millennium, as well as listing a few Web sites with projects for kids related to the millennium. 11-99
- Provides a specific 30 minute period for all peoples of the earth to pray or meditate at the same time, perhaps the first global event. 11-99