Pilot Plan for Glenn Public Schools, Grades 3-5

"Millennium Light"

Goals:

1. Develop concepts of the future
2. Help students recognize their ability to artistically visualize and express ideas about the future.
3. Teach the history of "futureology" -historic attempts to project the future.
4. Demonstrate how future events are shaped by ideas and planning.
5. Develop a view of the future as a potential for positive community growth and technological progress.
6. Provide insight to the "Millennium Light" art project.

1. Through a discussion of the student's individual notions of the future and examples of the future projections using literature and cinema containing ideas about the future-provide a framework and a context to develop concepts and inspire artworks about the future.

• Use The Millennium Book (1), Century's End (2) and (3) the Internet as reference texts for researching historic events and notions to help establish a conceptual context for understanding future time.
• What is the future?  When is the future? Why is the future? Where is the future? How can the future be shaped? How old will you be in the year 2,000? Where will you be in the year 2,000?
• The role and development of calendars in society.
• The significance of the year 2000.
• Understanding the symbolism and creative concepts behind the "millennium Light" art project.

• Drawings and narratives of what they will begin doing in the year 2000.
• Mural depicting how technological growth could effect Glenn by the year 2000. (group project)
• Establish an internet news-group forum, "The Future", for digital dialogue with other elementary schools- locally and internationally.
• Create multi-media think space that challenges everyone's imagination.
• Create a "Virtual Time Capsule" on the internet to be opened on the date of the new millennium.

(2). Century's End, Hillel Schwartz, CD 428.S39, 1990, Doubleday.

Mission Statement

Glenn Public School and Community History Project

Pilot Plan for Glenn Public Schools, Grades 3-5 "Millennium Light"

Glenn School "Michigan's Oldest" Continuous Rural Education Since 1854