PROJ> $$ Show Me the Money $$ Power of the Purse Newsday Project

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From: "Global SchoolNet" <GlobalSchoolNet@xxxxxxx>
To: "Gleason Sackmann" <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: $$ Show Me the Money $$  Power of the Purse Newsday Project
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:23:57 -0800

Register now for Project Newsday: Power of the Purse
http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/project/newsday/

$250 Prize Award for the Best Newspaper

"Show Me the Money!" Citizens are required to pay federal taxes every year.
How that tax money is spent is determined by a government budget that
outlines spending for education, military protection, health care, roads,
parks and other services. But, who determines how that money is divided up?
And is there ever enough tax money to pay for everything that all citizens
want? This Newsday theme, POWER OF THE PURSE is a multi-curricular project
in which student correspondents produce and exchange their own newspapers
about government spending with other schools across the nation and around
the world.

Project Sponsor:
Global SchoolNet Foundation with support from the Robert H. Michel Civic
Education Grants offered through the Dirksen Congressional Center.


Curriculum Area: Civics, Government, Mathematics, Social Studies, Community
Interest, Information Technology, Language Arts

Technologies Used: Email; Desktop Publishing

Project Description:
The 2004 Newsday: Power of the Purse theme is suited for teachers and their
students interested in government policy and spending. This project empowers
students to become researchers, writers, collaborators and publishers of
their own newspaper. Completed news publications are shared with all partner
classes around the world.

GSN IS OFFERING A $250 PRIZE to the class that produces the newspaper which
best addresses the theme, "Power of the Purse."

Project Newsday continues to be a perpetual favorite Global SchoolNet
project since it was introduced on the FrEdMail Network in the 1980's. A
complete project description for 2004 Project Newsday: Power of the Purse,
along with extensive curriculum support materials to help you conduct the
project, can be found at http://www.gsh.org/project/newsday.

This is a multi-curricular project in which students produce their own
newspaper based on the news articles about how government spending reflects
the priorities and policies of administrations and governing bodies.
Students become news gatherers and reporters, editors, layout and graphics
artists, and publishers. Students may also add their own articles about
their own local government. Participation on an international scale leads to
understanding of broad issues, which transcend local concerns. Project
Newsday: Power of the Purse will involve your students in several weeks of
enriching inter-disciplinary activities.

You may use a wide variety of methods to produce the papers, ranging from
simple word processor cut and paste to full desktop publishing packages. In
addition to publishing and distributing a printed hard copy of the
newspaper, participants are also encouraged to publish their newspapers on
the World Wide Web.

Participants will also receive a copy of each newspaper produced by the
other Project Newsday classes.

Objectives:

This project motivates your students to become eager writers and readers...
the finest foundation for basic or advanced literacy developed.

2004 Project Newsday: Power of the Purse addresses and improves:

-Academic Literacy Skills: reading, writing, editing, revising,
interviewing, literature appreciation, and understanding

-Social Studies: fundamentals of government policy with a focus on civics
and its relationship with the development of a budget to reflect priorities

-Math: concepts of budgets, deficits, and surplus

-Technology Skills: online research, email and file uploading, word
processing, file management, keyboarding, page layout and design, and desk
top and web publishing

-Social Skills: cooperative learning, leadership, listening, discussing,
encouraging, and sharing


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Yvonne Marie Andrés
Executive Director, Global SchoolNet Foundation
San Diego, California
yvonne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: (760)635-0001 Fax: (760)635-0003
www.globalschoolnet.org
Collaborate, communicate & celebrate learning!

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