In the past three lessons you have met your online classmates, you got to know their names, their dreams and some of their customs. You have learned the things that are worrying kids in your country, those kids in the countries participating in the program and kids participating in Kidlink from other countries. By now you have tasted the wonders of a global classroom. You have "personalized the news." Now when you see the name of one of these countries in the evening news or in the newspapers, you will feel different: you will feel involved. That is why in this lesson we are going to learn about compromises. About those things you have to do to make this world a better place to live for every living thing.

The only place where you can find success before work is in the dictionary. To be successful you have to work hard on those things you think are needed to succeed. You have to compromise! With your help we can have a better future! What can you do starting now?

Discussion Questions:

1. You have made new friends among the students in your global classroom. What do you have to do now to keep in touch with them? What do you have to do to nurture that friendship and make it grow?
2. You know now how your online friends want their communities to be better. What advice can you give to your friends?
3. When we are sad or confused, we just need a word of encouragement from a friend. You are all part of the "global community". Good friends love and protect each other. You know how your friends want the world to be better. What can you do to help them make the world better?
4. Friends and family are a very important part of our life. How do you compare a peaceful family life to a peaceful community life? What elements are the common denominator in rivalry between brothers and sisters, rivalry between families and rivalry between countries? How can this be changed?
5. Our well being can be protected and destroyed by humans. Who is responsible for protecting our future?
6. What is your family doing to protect the well being of your community? What is your school doing? What is your country doing? What are you doing? What else can be done?
7. Do you have any endangered animals in your country? Who is responsible for protecting them? What are you doing to protect them?

Activities

1. Search Kidlink's public membership archives to see what are the answers of children to the 4th Kidlink question. From their answers you will learn about the commitment of children in other parts of the world. For example: "do not use drugs", "pick up trash", " do not judge a person by his or her position in the community", etc. (You may choose the same countries that you chose in the last lesson.) Tabulate the results. What is the most cited solution for the children in each country selected? Why so you think so many students wrote that one. Do you think it is a quick, easy answer? Do you think they gave it some thought? What is the most interesting solution? Can you explain your findings? Ask the students participating in the program to do this exercise in their class and share the results in the KidCom Who-Am-I? room.
2. What do you have to do now to make the world better? Take in consideration your community, your country and the whole world community and their problems. Write an essay expressing your ideas and your feelings toward having a better future for all. Make a real commitment. Send your essay to the KidCom Who-Am-I? room. Print some of your favorite essays and organize them in a folder to share with your community and your family. Enlist their help in shaping a better future for all.
3. Make an electronic address book. Construct a web page with the name and e-mail addresses of all your classmates. You may add a photo of each one next to the name or you may use a photo of the group. Ask your global classmates to do the same with their class.
4. Write a poem about friends and friendship. Post your poem in the KidCom Who-Am-I? room to share with your online classmates.
5. List the ideas you have to help your classmates and your online classmates to make a better world. Add a drawing and post to the KidCom Who-Am-I? room so everyone in your global class can enjoy. Print your favorite letters and organize them in a folder. Share this folder with your family and your friends.
6. Make an acronym with the word LOVE. Post a copy of your acronym in the KidCom Who-Am-I? room. Print the letters and create a poster with the acronyms from all the students in your global class.
7. Find what are the endangered animals in your region, make a web page with the names and pictures of the animals. Explain why those animals are endangered. Invite the other students participating in the program module to visit your page. Ask them for suggestions that could help to minimize this situation. Add their ideas to your web page.
8. Think of ways in which the education you get and the way you treat others could help you make the world a better place to live. Post your ideas in the KidCom Who-Am-I? room. Ask the other students participating in the program module to share similar lists with you. Create a booklet of ideas using the information from all the lists. Print and distribute the booklets in your class.
9. Write a short essay explaining what things you learned by participating in this program module. What things you liked the most? What things if anything, you would change? Your essay should have at least 3 paragraphs.
10. Answer the question "What can I to now to make the world a better place?". Add your answer to the answers you saved from the past lessons, and use them to register with Kidlink.

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