Online Projects for the Beginning of the 2001/02 School Year
- Kidlink's "I Have a Dream" project helps youth realize their dreams about their future and a better world. Students are challenged to plan, design, and implement an Internet based project to realize their favored dreams in collaboration with peers in other countries. This educational program is for school classes and individual youth through secondary school level. Project Dates: September 15, 2001 to April 30, 2002.
- Sky Pictures - Each week, for 6 weeks, participating classes (students ages 5 to 12 years) will exchange digital pictures of what their sky (horizon) looked like. Project Dates: September 17, 2001 to October 26, 2001.
- Choose Your Own Book & Reports Project - Each grade K-4 class will read, write and submit via email a book report of their choice for each one of the following genres: Fantasy, Animal Fiction, Fairy Tale, Realistic Fiction. Project Dates: October 7, 2001 to November 30, 2001.
- Story Writing Project 9: Connecting you Globally - Six schools (students ages 5-13) will work together to write a story. When you register your class, you will join a Story Writing Group with five other classes. Each class will be assigned a one week period in which to write their paragraph and email it. Project Dates: September 23, 2001 to November 8, 2001.
- Eyesores & Pollution: What Can We Do? - High school students will evaluate eyesores and/or pollution in their community and will compare their local problems with those in other areas. They will then present the problem and a solution to their local government. Project Dates: October 15, 2001 to December 15, 2001. Email Marty Spear, mspear@blenkhs.org, technology Coordinator - Archbishop Blenk High School, Gretna, Louisiana, for more information.
- An Engaging Worldwide Integration of Curriculum is an online Resource for Classroom teachers and Preservice Teachers. Help create a virtual compilation of lesson plan ideas which integrate technology across the curriculum.
- Square of Life: Studies in Local and Global Environments - Developed for grades 1-6, this project involves an up-close and personal look at a square meter of schoolyard, observing and classifying plants, animals and non-living objects. Project Dates: September 10, 2001 to December 3, 2001.
MAKE CONNECTIONS AND FIND PROJECTS
Many projects begin in September, so check now for registration information.
Many projects begin in September, so check now for registration information.
Online Projects
- Discover Projects by E-Mail
- At Blue Web'n search for projects, or lesson plans, or resources.
- Global Schoolhouse sponsors many classroom projects. It also offers the Internet Projects Registry, a searchable index of online projects. Add your own!
- The NickNacks projects site lists online projects from several other sources and some of NickNack's own. Check for upcoming field trips and science and language arts projects.
- Classroom Connect's Teacher Contact Database is a database you can search to find a partner for your classroom project. Fill out a Teacher Contact form to add yourself to the database -- usually within 24 hours -- so that others can find you.
- At KidProj, a part of KidLink, teachers and youth group leaders from around the world organize activities and projects for students and other kids to participate in. The site includes a "Quick-Start" guide if you are new to KIDLINK and KIDPROJ and would like to participate in a project immediately.
- CIESE Online Classroom Projects (Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education) focuses on projects that utilize realtime data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.
- Pointer Site to New Projects links to several projects for all ages. Topics of links on this page are How To Create an Online Project, Join a Listserve or Discussion Group, Examples of Online Projects, and Join an Online Project Now!
- SchoolWorld Internet Education is a global online classroom designed for teachers, home schoolers, and students. Once your school registers (free), you have access to numerous projects and programs, keypals!
- The Computer Curriculum Corporation offers various interactive courses in reading, language, arts, and math, among other subjects. These are subscription-based student projects.
- Scholastic Network offers online activities.
- The I*EARN-International Education and Resource Network is a subscription service offering various online projects.
- The KSMA: Kentucky School Media Association page includes calendar, professional development, and Internet resources.
- Educational Simulations has a bulletin board area for teachers to post project ideas and find partner schools.
- ... E-Mail Partners
- KidLink is a grassroots project aimed at getting as many 10- to 15-year-olds as possible involved in a truly global dialogue.
- IECC: Intercultural Email Classroom Connections lists classrooms looking for e-mail partners and teachers posting online project announcements.
- Teaching Resources A 1st-grade teacher in Indiana has developed a list of web sites that will help you find an e-mail class as well as a list of educational chat rooms. Preview the chat rooms before sending any students to them to find the one that best suits your kids.
- The ePals Search Engine lists thousands of classrooms for you to connect with. Users can freely search, browse, and contact classrooms listed in the growing online database. You can also add a profile of your own classroom.
- Teachernet.com offers mail lists for teachers, classroom activities, and lesson plans.
- The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education association located in Alexandria, Va. Its electronic newsletter, by subscription only, includes valuable Internet resources.
- IECC: Intercultural Email Classroom Connections lists classrooms looking for e-mail partners and teachers posting online project announcements.
- Live from the Sun was part of the ongoing series of Passport to Knowledge interactive learning experiences. It featured the most recent discoveries about our local star, the ultimate source of all life on Earth and the only star we can study close up. It debuted in winter 1999 and continued with updated web and video materials through Solar Maximum, which peaked in 2000-01.
- The Quest Channel from Classroom Connect offers a variety of interactive adventures for students and services as well as resources for teachers. Some teaching resources are free; the student projects require a subscription.
- NASA Quest interactive learning includes chats and video webcasts. Check out these projects: the Space Scientists Online , Space Team Online, Aero Design Team Online (follow the aerodynamic testing of a replica of the Wright Brothers' plane), and Women of NASA projects.
- KET Electronic Field Trips have taken students to White Hall State Shrine (the home of abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay), Horse Cave Theatre, the Civil War battlefield at Perryville, the Speed Art Museum, the Kentucky Center for the Arts, the Louisville Zoo, a newspaper, a coal mine, a beef cattle farm, a pig farm, a horse farm, KET itself, and more.
- World Surfari Take a virtual "surfari" to a different country every month! Brought to you from the mind of Brian Giacoppo, age 11.
- Physics Park: Building Rides Online lets students design a roller coaster to be part of the park's attractions. The curriculum includes physics or pre-physics, geometry, calculus, general mathematics, art, and language arts content. The material is appropriate for grades 10-12.
- Bugs Count! is a math and science unit that introduces kindergarten and primary students to the world of bugs and to the simplest technology skills.
- Tabs Exchange #2 Vincent Massey Public School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is looking for high school, intermediate, and junior classes to exchange descriptions and photos of 3D models created with the drawing and modeling program Tabs by The Knowledge Tree. Developed to provide real learning in the integration of math and design technology, Tabs lets students explore solid shapes and how they fit together. Users develop "nets" which are printed out to create the 3D models. (posted 8/31/98)
- Mighty M&M Math Students have fun learning averages and percentages as they count and eat their way through bags of M&M's. They compare and analyze their class average percentages to those of other participating classes, use spreadsheets, and make graphs. Any age can participate with the appropriate adult help.
- NetAdventure offers challenging activities for middle and high school students, with a new topic -- from Fibonacci numbers to monarch butterfly migrations -- posted each day. Every NetAdventure poses three interesting challenges, from one most 12-year-olds could master in an hour to one that would challenge even the most advanced kid. Helpful additional resources are provided, including clues, extra information, and pointers to places on the web with related information. The activities are free, but registration is required.
- The Home Team! creatively combines math, baseball, and the San Francisco Giants. By answering specific questions about travel expenses, food, and tickets, students determine the cost of attending a Giants game. Guided questions and useful links to Internet resources are provided. Students will have fun with math while doing this activity.
- OnlineClass Programs for 2000/2001 School Year includes projects in science and math, social studies, history and geography, language arts, and the creative arts
- Mythos: Zeus Speaks!
- Learn ancient Greek history and mythology, discuss the stories online, and see your students' creative work displayed! A subscription fee is required. Register now for 2000/01.
- DoodleOpolis: Adventures in Urban Architecture
- Learn to see your neighborhood -- no matter what size -- in a whole new light! This site, developed in cooperation with the American Institute of Architects Minnesota, offers activities and resources in art, architecture, social studies, and language arts for grades K-8. A subscription fee is required. Register now for 2000/01.
- UN CyberSchoolBus Human Rights Module
This project will help students understand the idea of human rights and gain a sense of themselves as people with dignity and hence with rights while encouraging them to act.- Schools Demining Schools - This United Nations project, launched in October 1997, encourages students to make a difference on the global stage by helping to clear school grounds of landmines. Landmines still maim and cripple thousands of civilians. Why? Why haven't they been banned? What can you do about it? Join this project to learn about the issues and participate in the solution. E-mail globalschoolbus@un.org and put "ban mines" in the subject field.
- Flat Stanley is on his way to classrooms everywhere. Students will learn about geographic locations, literary connections, and geographic similarities and differences. The Flat Stanley Project is an international literacy and communications activity for primary students and their teachers.
- TIES Footsteps to Freedom: Traveling the Underground Railroad© Browse the results of this online history research project for grades 3-7, which ended in March 2000. Students interacted with historians, educators, and heritage managers as they followed in the footsteps of enslaved Africans in their quest for freedom. Students contributed their own thoughts as well as actual research data to a national project of commemorating Underground Railroad sites.
- International Schools CyberFair invites students from kindergarten through 12th grade to research one of seven topics highlighting an aspect of their local community and publish their project on the web. Registration is usually in February.
- 50 Years of Peacekeeping
To celebrate the International Day of Peace, the United Nations CyberSchoolBus sponsored a project in which schools sent messages and questions to UN peacekeepers. All messages are posted, and the teaching units are designed for two different grade levels: 4-6 and 7-11.
- Nonprofit Prophets is a web-based community action project. Students in 9th- and 10th-grade English, social studies, science, health, and applied technology classes identify social or environmental problems in their own or the global community and create a shared web site with a nonprofit organization. Nonprofit Prophets was developed by Pacific Bell's Education First.
- CNN Newsroom provides a daily teacher's guide for the Cable News Network current events project.
- The North American Quilt: A Living Geography Project Classrooms across Canada, the U.S., and Mexico will each become their own "patches" in an online interdisciplinary study of North American geography. As they contribute their findings to the web site, a growing "virtual quilt" of geography information on North America becomes available to all. Moderators and expert guests will guide research and lead discussions on such topics as land features; wildlife; land use; human migrations, from the arrival of the first Native Americans to the present; cultural make-up; and artistic expression. Curriculum areas include geography, social studies, language arts, history, and art for grades 4-12. A subscription fee is required. The project begins in September 2000. An OnlineClass project.
- Geogame Students immerse themselves in atlases, maps, almanacs, and other references in order to solve a geography puzzle. They also help create the puzzle by answering questions about their own community's latitude, typical weather, land formations, time zone, etc.
- The Landmark Game '01 challenges students to research a landmark and compete in a game with other schools to identify all the landmarks with the clues given. Look for more information in December 2000.
- The United Nations CyberSchoolBus offers several online projects involving students in geography and global issues. One example is Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow , a popular teaching module on urban issues. It has six interesting and entertaining units with hyperlinks to graphs and factoids along the way.
- The Geography -- Geo-Mystery Project let students brainstorm what was unique about the place where they live. Your students can look in the archives to uncover the geographic mysteries.
- Mythos: Zeus Speaks!
Learn ancient Greek history and mythology, discuss the stories online, and see your students' creative work displayed. A subscription fee is required, and registrations are now being taken for the 2000/01 school year. An OnlineClass project.
- The Monster Exchange encourages the development of reading and writing skills while integrating Internet technology into the classroom curriculum.
- DoodleOpolis: Adventures in Urban Architecture. - Learn to see your neighborhood -- no matter what size -- in a whole new light! This site, developed in cooperation with the American Institute of Architects Minnesota, offers activities and resources in art, architecture, social studies, and language arts for grades K-8. A subscription fee is required. Register now for 2000/01. An OnlineClass project.
- Voices of Youth is the UNICEF online forum that invites young people to learn about and express their views on today's global issues of development, peace, and justice. Includes resources for educators, too.
- LanguageArts -- Poetry Post features poems submitted by students from around the world describing people, culture, traditions, celebrations, climate, natural resources, flora, fauna, recreational activities, historical heritage, tourist attractions, and geography. From Grahamwood Elementary, Tennessee, USA.
- The Diary Project is a way for young people around the world to share their thoughts, feelings, and dreams with one another near and far -- to ask questions and find answers about growing up at the turn of the 21st century.
- KidNews is a free news and writing service for students and teachers around the world. Anyone may use stories from the service for educational purposes, and anyone may submit stories. Comments about news gathering, teaching, and computer-related issues are also invited in special discussion sections for students and teachers.
- Internet CNN Newsroom contains daily teacher's guides to accompany the daily middle and high school CNN news programs.
- CyberKids and CyberTeens are sites for kids to share their creative work: art, writing, music, etc.
- CRAYON: CReAte Your Own Newspaper Creating your own newspaper is simple with CRAYON: Imagine going to your local newspaper office and telling them exactly what you do and do not read, then the next day having a customized paper delivered to your door.
- DoodleOpolis: Adventures in Urban Architecture.
Learn to see your neighborhood -- no matter what size -- in a whole new light! This site, developed in cooperation with the American Institute of Architects Minnesota, offers activities and resources in art, architecture, social studies, and language arts for grades K-8. A subscription fee is required. Register now for 2000/01. An OnlineClass project. - The Refrigerator is a site that displays children's art.
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COMPUTER OR INTERNET-RELATED PROJECTS
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COMPUTER OR INTERNET-RELATED PROJECTS
- ThinkQuest Junior 2001 , inspired by the success of ThinkQuest, is a program that engages the strong interest of younger students in computers and the Internet. It gives them and their teachers a structure for integrating computers and the "Internet style of learning" into their everyday lives. ThinkQuest Junior is for girls and boys in grades 4 through 6 who work together in teams of up to six students. Coached by their teachers, teams build web-based educational materials. Applications for ThinkQuest Junior 2001 will be taken starting in September 2000.
- Headbone Interactive provides Internet research contests packed with puzzles your class will solve by finding information online. Your students learn Internet research skills while investigating topics such as ecology and American government.
- Multimedia Mania was a contest for students and teachers who used multimedia in the classroom during 1999/2000. The site contains information about the contest and a list of winners. Registration for Multimedia Mania 2000 is closed.
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MISCELLANEOUS ONLINE ACTIVITIES
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MISCELLANEOUS ONLINE ACTIVITIES
- MidLink Magazine: The Electronic Magazine for Kids in the Middle Grades provides activities and projects like MidLink Magazine Showcase, The International Book Fair, The Virtual Quilt, and lots more.