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The Great State Mystery
Did you ever want to be a detective? This online collaborative project gives elementary students the opportunity to use deductive reasoning skills to find their fellow project participants. This project incorporates math, geography, science, language arts and social studies into fun-filled lessons and activities that will send your students on a journey across the United States. (3/5/01-3/31/01)
GRADE LEVEL: K-5+

A Summer to Remember: The First Olympics of the New Millennium
We are fast approaching the start of another Summer Olympics. However, this is not just any Summer Olympics. This is the first Summer Olympics of the New Millennium. To help us prepare for this event, as well as reflect on the accomplishments of those before us, let's take a closer look at the Summer Olympics! (9/1/00-10/30/00)
GRADE LEVEL: K-12

The Sun Times, The Global Sun/Temperature Project
"How does your geographic location affect average daily temperature and hours of sunlight?" Schools from around the world participate in this collaborative project as students measure the local temperature and record the number of minutes of sunlight per day over a specific week. This data is then posted to the web site so that the students can compare and contrast their results with other classes from all over the world.
GRADE LEVEL: 4-8

The Bullying Project
The students who have helped develop the project wanted to use the power of the Internet to let their peers know that young people dealing with the issues of bullying and teasing "Are NOT alone. That being bullied and teased is NOT their fault and that they CAN do something about it!"  (Ongoing)
GRADE LEVEL: K-12

Nutrition on the Net -- Healthful Activities for Every Grade!
If your students think nutrition is a dull topic, they haven’t gotten the full story on food from the resources of the Internet. Many wonderful sites explain the benefits of eating well, the power of the food guide pyramid, and the history of food. Including those sites in your nutrition lessons will open eyes and change minds about the subject of nutrition! (Ongoing)
GRADE LEVEL: K-12

Building a Working Community in the Classroom: One Teacher's Experience
Elementary teacher Toni Wing captured her students' interest by making them citizen-leaders of a city called Tinseltown. As business people, bankers, and employees, the students kept checkbooks and inventory and found out about the real world. See how the activity made learning across the curriculum relevant for students! Included: Ideas for creating a community in your classroom!
GRADE LEVEL: 2-8

GOALS -- Global Online Adventure Learning Site
The Global Online Adventure Learning Site brings real-life adventure into the classroom. Teams of explorers periodically post updates of their journeys. Not all projects run consecutively. Each GOALS adventure has a registry for posting comments and questions to the explorers. Users can also sign up to receive notification when expeditions begin.
GRADE LEVEL: 2-5

Fit For Life 2000
On average, children only eat 2.5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day. Fit For Life 2000 is a telecomputing project designed to increase student awareness of the food they eat, the nutrition it provides, and the regional costs of food.. (2/1/00-3/10/00)
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12

The Smile Train Cleft Buddy Project
The Smile Train Cleft Buddy Project is a pen-pal program where classes exchange a small stuffed animal symbolically to represent children born with cleft lip. The project hopes to raise awareness and teach tolerance and acceptance of people with differences to others. Several subjects, such as the language arts, health, humanities, and social studies may be studied through the use of the "cleft buddy."  (On-Going)
GRADE LEVEL: K-5

The Journey North
The Journey North is an outstanding collaborative Internet project that involves classrooms in the study of wildlife migration and the changes to the environment as spring moves north across Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A sister site, Journey South, follows the same information in the fall and prepares students for the spring’s Journey North.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12

Montage
Montage is an impressive collection of interactive curriculum projects involving teachers and students around the globe. The projects are designed to create collaboration and learning through the medium of the Internet and other communications technologies.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12+

Email Classroom Exchange
Email Classroom Exchange (ECE) allows students throughout the world to connect and exchange information with one another via email and online conferencing.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12

GlobaLearn™
This is the Web site for GlobaLearn, a non-profit company sponsoring live expeditions all over the world. The company maintains this Web site so students can interact with the expedition teams.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12

Special Dog "Guides" Middle School Curriculum
Students in Bryan, Texas, are raising a guide dog named Penny. Teachers at Sam Rayburn Middle School have turned this special community service project into lessons in geography, art, language, and more.
GRADE LEVEL: 6-8

Edventures!
Information on Edventures! a hands-on education program.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12

ThinkQuest
The word here is not content, but rather CONCEPT..... this is the ultimate education site promotion tool.
GRADE LEVEL: 5-12 & Professionals

Adventure Online
This site contains valuable education tools in the area of "adventure learning".
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections
This site contains a valuable gopher Archives of emailing lists about collaborative projects.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12

l*EARN
This site lists 21 ongoing intercontinental internet projects for children at the primary/secondary school level.
GRADE LEVEL: Professionals