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Question:  What was different when you were my age?

Project Description:  Adults often say “things were very different when I was your age”. The aim of this project is to answer the question “What was different when you were my age?”  We hope to use this project as a way to encourage international communication,  cultural understanding between students from Japan and the USA. Also the project seeks to foster dialog between the generations and a sense of the importance of history. 

Procedures: 

1: Each student in your class will speak with a parent, relative, or a person of their parents’ generation and with a grandparent or person of the grandparents’ generation.

2: The student will ask each individual to describe 5 things that are most different now than when the person was the student’s age.

3: The student will write the responses, keeping parent/grandparent responses separate.  

4: Once the data are collected, the class will come together to cluster or group similar responses into common categories. Once this is done, the teacher or a designated student, will complete the Class Survey Forms.  Only the 5 most frequently mentioned differences collected by the entire class should be submitted.

Survey Form

School Name:
Class: 
Teacher
Date
Country
   

 Class Survey Form for Parents

Things Most Different To Parents # of Responses
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2.
3.
4.
5.

 Class Survey Forms for Grandparents

Things Most Different To Grandparents # of Responses
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

 

 

Timelines

January 17-21 Initial class explanation and discussion of project

Data collection
January 24-31 Entire project will cluster or group data into common categories

Class surveys completed and sent to website.
February 1-18 Project staff will analyze and post all received data on website.
February 21 - March 10 Project Discussion Forum will function

Possible Teaching Ideas:  All the data from participating classes will be posted to the Website, separated by country. We hope the presentation of data will stimulate discussion on the events and reasons that caused these changes. The teacher can use these discussions as a basis for additional essays and assignments. In addition, we will open a discussion forum on the Website for participants to talk about some of the issues and or topics resulting from the data.

Any questions or concerns about this project, please contact

Rhoda Peltzer, Project Coordinator

Web Mail: http://www.schoollink.org/projectmktplace/help.htm 

E-mail: rpzcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu