Make a Countdown Calendar. Read The Kids Guide to the Millennium . You and your students will be ahead of the pack. The Kids Guide to the Millennium is written by Ann Love and Jane Drake and illustrated by Bill Slavin. A bicycle trip will circle the globe.
Students can plot the trip on a world map.
They might plan alternate routes. The Greenwich Millennium Countdown Clock Log on to find how many years, months, days, minutes, hours, and seconds until the year 2000. These timelines cover 49-2000. Encourage students to place the founding of their hometown on the timeline. They might be able to add some too.