Internet Science Projects
ELEMENTARY SCIENCE PROJECTS
- Dare to Fly with Class has students in grades 3-5 fly paper airplanes and chart their results. Registration ends February 1, 2002 with results due no later than February 28.
- Dinosaurs Alive! introduces K-6 students to an Internet research project by adopting a dinosaur to research.
This session runs July 3-August 8, 2000. Additional sessions begin September 2000.
- GLOBE [Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment] is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment.
GLOBE students make a core set of environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data via the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education. Each day, images created from the GLOBE student data sets are posted on the World Wide Web, allowing students and visitors to the GLOBE web site to visualize the student environmental observations.
- SchoolWorld Zoo explores the wild kingdom with an array of interactive projects on animals and plants including the SchoolWorld Endangered Species student reports, Ask An Expert, where plant and animal experts answer student question, The SchoolWorld Adoption Center, in conjunction with international zoos, where students can adopt and name their animal and will be kept informed as to the animals progress through regular reports from the zoo, and Letters From Around The World, where interested people contribute to the project's information database.
- In the Clean Up Club challenge your students will take a walk and gather trash along the way. Once back in the classroom the students record information about the types and the amount of items gathered. E-Mail the results to rif00231@ride.ri.net. (Posted 8/31/98)
Archival Projects:
- Stellaluna's Friends has each class research a bat near their environment. Students will write reports, draw pictures, poems, and stories about bats. For grade 1-3.
- Off to a Flying Start, a NASA Langley Learning Technologies Project, was a K-2 online telecommunications project that uses worldwide collaboration and aeronautics to provide learning opportunities to students in math and science. Off to a Flying Start consists of three modules: Introduction to Flight, Flying the Falcon Flyer, and Experimental Design.
- The International Trees and Forests Project was hosted by a primary school in Australia. Each school reports on a tree in their schoolgrounds, telling about seasonal changes and including information about the creatures who live in or visit their tree.
- Global Leaf Collection is for children in the lower elementary grades. Have your students find leaves during the autumn and make a collection.
- Signs of Autumn, Signs of Spring Students study the global progression of the seasons firsthand! For four weeks, primary students (grades 1-4) in the Northern hemishere will follow Spring's progression. Students will share weekly observations and optional drawings and gain a unique understanding of seasonal change on a global level.
MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE PROJECTS
- International Boiling Point project Register now. Project runs September 18 - December 8, 2000.
- Down the Drain Do you know how much water you use every day? Would you be surprised to learn that the average American uses between 80-100 gallons of water per day? Do you think people in other parts of the world use more or less water than Americans? Well, this collaborative project will help you find out the answers to these questions. By collecting data on water usage from people around the world students will be able to see how their water use compares to others and determine what they might do to conserve water.
- EarthCam Project allows middle school students to participate in an exciting space program, where they get to actually take pictures of earth from the Space Shuttle. Skills are acquired in Internet use, technology, space and earth science, mathematics, image analysis, and geography. A full teacher's curriculum is available. Earthcam's next planned shuttle mission is May, 2001.
- Blue Ice: Focus On Antarctica is an exciting virtual field trip to Antarctica for grades 4 - 8.
This session runs July 3-August 8, 2000. Additional sessions begin September 2000. Teachers can choose from two units: food webs (life science) and weather/climate change (earth science).
- Physics Park: Building Rides Online Students design a roller coaster to be part of the park's attractions. Next regularly scheduled sessions begin July 5 and September 4, 2000. There is a fee for participation in the program.
- Remote Access Online Real-time Science Experiment Students are able to particpate in an ongoing university research experiment by viewing and anlyzing data and making suggestions for new experiments. For classroom teachers the research laboratory at the University of Virginia has provided extensive background materials. For ages 5-14.
- Live From The Rain Forest, a Passport To Knowledge project, highlights rain forests on three different continents and started in the Spring of 1998. It was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Museum of Natural History, PBS Teacher Resource Services, and public television. The Teacher's Guide Pack includes 80 page Guide featuring hands-on activities, special PTK full color LFRF poster, student worksheets, and is $20.00 per Guide pack. Extensive web site still available.
- Internet Science and Technology Fair Using the Internet as a resource tool, middle school and junior high students will have an opportunity to be a member of a team whose mission is to seek, obtain, analyze and report on a state-of-the-art National Critical Technology as determined by the White House Office of Science, Technology and Policy. They will work online with a teacher and a technical advisor (who is a scientist or engineer from a federal research laboratory or corporate facility) using only email and remote databases to locate the information they need. Using facts, figures, graphics, pictures, automation and sound, they will present their findings as "Project Homepages."
- Boiling Point Project purpose was to discover which factor (room temperature, elevation, number of people present, or heating device) has the greatest influence on boiling point in a very simple water boiling experiment. The project ran from March to May 2000, but the site is very interesting showing students around the world doing the experiment.
- Global Water Sampling Project had students monitoring and comparing the water quality of a river, stream, lake, pond, or other local fresh water supply with other fresh water sources all over the world. Students performed the following tests on their water samples: temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen demand, carbon dioxide, phosphates, nitrates, turbidity, and coliform bacteria. The project ran from March to May 2000, but the site is shows students doing the experiments.
HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE PROJECTS
- Physics Park: Building Rides Online
is a hands-on physics and math challenge in which each classroom works to design either a Ferris wheel or a roller coaster for a virtual amusement park. This collaborative project brings together professional academicians, amusement park designers and students for a hands-on design experience. Next regularly scheduled sessions begin July 5 and September 4, 2000. There is a fee for participation.
- International Boiling Point project Register now. Project runs September 18 - December 8, 2000.
- Endangered Species is an ongoing project from SchoolWorld. Students can research and report on an Endangered Species from around the world (using the Project Outline furnished). The information supplied will be written into a report and included in this site of student-produced Endangered Species reports.
- Journey North engaged students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. Students across North America will track wildlife migration and spring's journey north from Groundhog Day until summer vacation.
- The Princess America Project was an adventure education program to inspire young students on topics related to marine subjects. From the deck of the small sail boat "Princess America" reports were written in 1999.
- OnlineClass Programs For Summer 2000
Registration cost is based on number of students participating from your school.
- Blue Ice: Focus On Antarctica is an exciting virtual field trip to Antarctica for grades 4 - 8.
- This session runs July 3-August 8, 2000. Additional sessions begin September 2000. Teachers can choose from two units: food webs (life science) and weather/climate change (earth science).
- Dinosaurs Alive! introduces K-6 students to an Internet research project by adopting a dinosaur to research.
- This session runs July 3-August 8, 2000. Additional sessions begin September 2000.
In addition, these Online Class projects begin September 2000:
- Physics Park: Building Rides Online Students design a roller coaster to be part of the park's attractions.
- Curriculum includes physics or pre-physics, geometry, calculus, general mathematics, art, and language arts content. Material is appropriate for grades 10 - 12.
- Bugs Count! is a math and science unit.
- This project introduces young K-3 students to the world of bugs and to the simplest technology skills.
- Stream Interlink Project: Using telecomputing for comparative water quality analysis.
Do you collect water quality monitoring data? Are you interested in aquatic science on streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, seacoasts or snow packs? Are you teaching environmental science, field data collection, telecomputing, or statistical analysis? Sponsored by the Kentucky Water Watch Program and the KY Department of Education, Educational Technology Program.
- A World Community of Old Trees is an Ecology Art Project containing art work, photos, tree facts, poems and stories from grades K-12 - still being posted.
- CURRENT NASA PROJECTS
- NASA Quest connects K-12 classrooms with ongoing and exciting real research through activities, lesson plans, television programs, and online resources.
- PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE is an ongoing series of interactive learning experiences using space-age telecommunications to connect students and teachers directly with our planet's leading researchers. PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE uses broadcast TV, videotape, email, the World Wide Web, and hands-on discovery activities so students can actively simulate the science seen on camera and online in their own classrooms.
- LIVE FROM THE SUN was part of the ongoing series of interactive learning adventures from PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE.
- It featured the latest discoveries about our local star, the ultimate source of all life on Earth. Debuting in winter 1999, it continued through Solar Maximum, which peaked in 2000-2001.