What
is Village?
What
are peeps?
A Short
Introduction
Village
is an educational program for children ages 10-13 in which the participants
build a miniature town. The students' village can have houses, town
buildings, a government, money and anything else they think a town should
have. With the teacher acting as a fellow citizen, the children make
all the decisions about the town they build.
Village
begins with the creation of "peeps" the 3 inch or 8 centimeter tall miniature
people who will live in the miniature town. Each participant makes
his or her own peep, which can be anyone: a doctor, a Viking, a basketball
player, whoever a child wants to be in twenty years or someone a child
knows he or she will never be.